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M -- PLUMBROOK RECOMPETITION OF OPERATIONAL SERVICES (PROS) CONTRACT SOL 129209 DUE 083099 POC Deborah A. Drossis, Contracting Officer, Phone (216) 433-2751, Fax (216) 433-5489, Email Deborah.A.Drossis@grc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GRC/date.html#129209. E-MAIL: Deborah A. Drossis, Deborah.A.Drossis@grc.nasa.gov. PLUM BROOK OPERATIONS CONTRACT (Consolidation of two existing contracts) The NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) seeking qualified 8(a) firms to provide services for a follow-on procurement which combines two existing contracts. The contracts are NAS3-27345 for test and research support services and NAS3-26951 for institutional support services. These contracts are more fully described below. The proposed contract will take the form of a hybrid contract with work being completed on both a mission basis and by completing separate task orders. The effort will be a cost-plus incentive fee award-term contract. The proposed period of performance consists of a base period of 3 years with additional contact years awarded based upon performance up to a maximum of 12 years. Support services for the operation and maintenance of four aerospace research facilities (three space environmental chambers and one wind tunnel); project engineering and management related to test programs conducted in the Plum Brook test facilities; design engineering, drafting, and computer network services. The contractor shall ensure that the four test facilities operate as designed and are available and capable of safely, efficiently, and effectively supporting all testing activities. Examples of types of services required at the test facilities are providing test program documentation which includes test plans, requirements documents, cost estimates, hazards analyses, test data acquisition, and configuration control; providing test operation support which includes design, installation, and removal of test hardware; inspection and system checkout and operation; providing test facility upgrades which includes assembly, installation, repair, modification, checkout, and inspection; providing test operation expertise which includes troubleshooting and engineering analyses. Support services for the operation and maintenance of the basic institution which consists of several buildings, variousabove ground and below ground utilities, 6,400 acres of land, and various support services. Types of services include industrial safety and health; environmental compliance; chemical analysis; plant protection; facility operations, maintenance and repair; monitoring and maintenance of a shutdown, defueled nuclear reactor facility; shipping, receiving and warehousing; janitorial and refuse collection; grounds maintenance; equipment and vehicle repair; steam system operation for test facilities; procurement; and clerical and library support. The contractor shall operate and maintain the facility and utility systems in support of the NRC license, storage and warehousing, environmental compliance and aerospace testing. Examples of the type of institutional services required by this contract are: roads and grounds maintenance; janitorial and plant protection services; shipping and receiving, records management; storage and warehousing; purchasing; clerical; and vehicle maintenance. Examples of the types of utility systems operations and maintenance are: HVAC systems; raw and domestic water systems; high and low voltage electrical systems; natural gas systems; and sanitary and storm sewer systems. In addition, support services for on-site administration, management, operations, engineering, design, maintenance, as well as some materials, tools, transportation and equipment are required for this effort. While maintaining an on-site work force, the contractor will also be required to provide emergency call-in personnel during off-hours. All qualified 8(a) responsible sources may submit proposal which shall be considered by the agency. See Numbered Note 4. The SIC Code and Size Standard are 8744 and $20 million, respectively. The DPAS rating for this procurement is DO-C9. The anticipated release date of a draft RFP3-129209 is on or about June 14, 1999. The anticipated release date of RFP3-129209 is on or about July 16, 1999 with an anticipated proposal due date of on or about August 30, 1999. An ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". The solicitation will be available over the Internet and any supporting documents related to this procurement will be available in the reading room at the NASA Plum Brook Station, Room 223, 6100 Columbus Avenue, Sandusky, Ohio 44870, (419) 621-3205. Internet 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 Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GRC Business Opportunities page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GRC/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/nasanote.html Posted 06/10/99 (D-SN341556). (0161)

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