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A -- MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS CONTRACT (MRDOC) SOL 3-094978 DUE 111198 POC Kurt R. Brocone, Contract Specialist, Phone (216) 433-2884, Fax (216) 433-5489, Email Kurt.R.Brocone@lerc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/LeRC/date.html#3-094978. E-MAIL: Kurt R. Brocone, Kurt.R.Brocone@lerc.nasa.gov. NASA/LeRC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for microgravity flight hardware development and operations. The procurement will successfully fulfill near-term flight hardware delivery requirements encompassing the ability to manage and execute flight hardware development,integration and operations of Lewis Research Center (LeRC)Fluids and Combustion Microgravity Science Program for all space flight carriers (Shuttle, International Space Station (ISS), sounding rockets etc.) Specifically, this will include development of the Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) hardware for ISS, FCF mission integration and planning function, FCF increment engineering, execution, system/sustaining engineering functions, and development and operation of Principal Investigator (PI)flight hardware. The proposed contract will take the form of a fixed price performance based hybrid contract consisting of fixed price completion and fixed price and cost-plus incentive fee Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) elements. The proposed period of performance consists of a base period of five (5) years with three (3) one-year option periods. This is an unrestricted procurement with a partial 8(a) set aside. A separate but concurrent competitive 8(a) set aside is contemplated to also be awarded from this RFP consisting of a minimum of 40% of the Principal Investigator flight hardware development. The unrestricted portion of the procurement will include specific goals for Small Business (SB) of 40%, of which at least 15% is reserved for Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) and at least another 10% is reserved for Women-Owned Business (WOB) participation. The provisions and clauses in the RFP are those in effect through FAC 97-5. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. The SIC Code and Size Standard are 8731 and 1000 employees, respectively. The DPAS rating for this procurement is DO-C9. The anticipated release date of a draft RFP is on or about September 4, 1998 with an anticipated release date of the final RFP of on or about October 23, 1998 with proposals due on or about December 4, 1998. The MRDOC industrial briefing has been scheduled for September 22, 1998. This procurement can be summarized with the following three exhibits: EXHIBIT 1: ISS Fluids and Combustion Facility which consists of facility development and build for the Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR), Shared Accomodation Rack (SAR) and the Fluids Integrated Rack (FIR) and associated ground support equipment. Exhibit 1 will allow for a completion type statement of work under a firm fixed price effort with funding estimated at $94.8 million for 5 years. There is no option work for Exhibit 1. EXHIBIT 2: ISS Operations including planning, integration, flight execution, training, sustaining engineering. Includes FCF operations and Telescience Support Center(TSC) development and operation.The initial known effort will be priced as part of Request For Proposal (RFP) 3-094978. The outyear effort will be determined by theongoing number of experiments and their requirements for operation as listed under Exhibit 3. Additionally, any FCF upgrades that are required to the core facility will be implemented under Exhibit 2. The ordering mechanism will be performance based Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) delivery orders. Delivery orders anticipated to be Firm Fixed Price (FFP) and Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF) for delivery orders requiring definition. Exhibit 2 funding estimated at $63.2 for the basic five years and $45 million for the three one-year option periods. EXHIBIT 3: Prinicpal Investigator (PI) Specific Hardware Development where the number and nature of the science payloads are evolving and the PI experiments maybe numerous and repetitive. The ordering mechanism will be delivery orders where the nature and complexity of the effort will be defined and deliverables specified. CPIF delivery orders will be used when requirements are ill defined. FFP delivery orders will be used for defined requirements. Exhibit 3 funding estimated at $54.3 million for the basic five years and $43 million for the three one-year option periods. Exhibit 2 and Exhibit 3 will contain Min/Max provisions at 10%/150% for the Basic Contract and Options. A summary of the funding profile is as follows: BASE (5 YEARS) EXHIBIT 1 -- $94.8M EXHIBIT 2 -- $63.2M EXHIBIT 3 -- $54.3M (40% of Exhibit 3 set-aside for 8(a)). TOTAL $212.3M THREE ONE-YEAR OPTION PERIODS EXHIBIT 1 -- $0 EXHIBIT 2 -- $45.0M EXHIBIT 3 -- $43.0M (40% of Exhibit 3 set-aside for 8(a)). TOTAL $88.0M All qualified responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. An ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". The solicitation and any appropriate supporting documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet and a Reading Room will be available at NASA Lewis Research Center. These documents will be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or 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/LeRC Business Opportunities page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/LeRC/class.html. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the aforementioned Internet site 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. Posted 08/20/98 (D-SN239962). (0232)

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