NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771

B -- BOOK-LENGHT MANUSCRIPT ENTITLED THE DEVELOPMENT OF CENTAUR UPPER STAGE AND AMERICAN ROCKETRY SOL RFOW-90992 DUE 071398 POC Robin Morton, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 286-4270, Fax (301) 286-0357, Email Robin.C.Morton.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/HQ/date.html#RFOW-90992. E-MAIL: Robin Morton, Robin.C.Morton.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/HQ plans to issue a full and open competitive Request for Offer (RFO) to prepare and complete a comprehensive, academically-sound, well-documented, peer reviewed book-lenght manuscript (approximately 500 typescript pages) entitled, THE DEVELOPMENT OF CENTAUR UPPER STAGE AND AMERICAN ROCKETRY. The manuscript shall include documenting and analyzing the process of aerospace innovation through the development of the Centaur upper stage, perhaps the salient rocket technology used in the American commercial launcher program to date. A key ingredient of this is the manner in which the technology was conceived and developed in government laboratories, especially at the Lewis Research Center, and then spun off into commercial application. The work will comment on the prospect of how technological knowledge has been advanced, over the history of the agency and its predecessor, discuss the nature and development of technological R&D, and analyze the role of technology transfer in the aerospace arena. Thestudy will explore the process of key policy-makers, engineers, and scientists in formulating research, design, development, and technology transfer processes. The contractor responsible for conducting this project will be expected to perform primary archival research; interview key participants; identify, categorize, and investigate all known information relating to the development of this subject; and write an analytical, intellectually rigorous but readable history of this subject, acceptable for publication as a scholarly work. This final product will be illustrated only as appropriate to explain the issues raised in the written work. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. See Numbered Note 26. All qualified responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. The anticipated release date of the RFO is on or about June 12, 1998, with an anticipated offer due date of on or about July 13, 1998. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Internet Note "B". 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/HQ Business Opportunities home page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/HQ/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 and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. (0156)

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