NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

A -- SPACE TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT STUDY SOL 1-8-RA-86001 DUE 061898 POC Mark R. Stiles, Contracting Officer, Phone (205) 544-0381, Fax (205) 544-6062, Email mark.stiles@msfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/MSFC/date.html#1-8-RA-86001. E-MAIL: Mark R. Stiles, mark.stiles@msfc.nasa.gov. NASA plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) that will solicit proposals for U.S. industry led studies of potential space transportation architecture options that would significantly reduce NASA s annual human space transportation costs. Proposals should focus on efforts required to develop detailed space transportation architecture options, and supporting roadmaps, that consider all existing systems as well as new innovative space transportation systems and approaches. Knowledge of current systems and expertise in systems development and launch operations is mandatory. The development of potential space transportation architectures should seek to minimize life-cycle cost (LCC) as compared to today s costs. NASA will develop a common baseline including civil launch requirements for comparison with all proposed options. It is NASA s intent for industry to develop architecture options and roadmaps, supporting design details and economic analysis that will allow the Administration to proceed with decisions regarding investments in human space flight transportation systems. A period of performance of sixteen months including evaluation with basic contract plus option(s), is anticipated. The anticipated release date of the RFO is on or about May 19,1998, with an anticipated offer due date of on or about June 18, 1998. The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0) format and will reside on a World Wide Web WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWW address, or URL of the NASA/MSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/MSFC/class.html. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site and/or the CBD for the release of the solicitation. (0124)

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