NASA Procurement Office, Code DAOO, Stennis Space Center (SSC), MS 39529-6000

R -- DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF NASA TECHNOGIES APPLICATION FOR ADVANCED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES DUE 083199 POC Gregory Fletcher, Contract Specialist, Phone (228) 688-2223, Fax (2281) 688-1141, Email gregory.fletcher@ssc.nasa.gov -- Harold G. Taulbee, Contracting Officer, Phone (228) 688-1640, Fax (228) 688-1141, Email harold.taulbee@ssc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/SSC/date.html#N-1999-189. E-MAIL: Gregory Fletcher, gregory.fletcher@ssc.nasa.gov. NASA/SSC intends to purchase the services from Sibley Manufacturing Company, Merigold, Mississippi under the authority of 10 U. S. C. 2304 (c)(1), only one responsible source and satisfy agency requirement. Based upon proven NASA technologies, a basic web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) to support commercial agricultural production operations shall be developed, tailored and demonstrated in support of advanced farming operation in the Mississippi Delta. Two (2) to three (3) collaborating farmers shall be recuited in the three (3) separate counties of the central and northern Mississippi Delta (Bolivar, Sunflower, Leflore, Humphreys, Washington or adjacent Delta counties) to participate as volunteers in the program to utilize variable seeding and other advanced farming concepts and to evaluate the economic and other results achieved by these techniques. At least two crops (soy bean, cotton, etc., on plots approximated 50 to 100 acre sizes) on farms located in diverse soil conditions will be demonstrated. The Contractor shall equip the collaborting farmers with elementary but comprehensive, integrated and customized data and other composite, critical information that shall address the primary concerns in advanced crop production management. Support and assistance shall be maintained on an ongoing basis through contract completion with each collaboration farmer by agricultural scientists and coordinators experienced in using advanced farming techniques. Periodic remote sensing supported data sets shall be collected and included in the GIS plots to augment current advanced farming techniques and provide a capability for stress management of crops during the normal growing season. The eighteen (18) month project shall be organized into thre major activities: (1)FARMER RECURITING AND FARM OPERATIONS INTERACTION, (2) INTERNET SERVICES, AND (3) PROJECT MANAGEMENT. Data collection and geographic correlation shall be major efforts in Activities (1) and (2). The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". Interested firms have 15 days from the publication of this synopsis to submit in writing to the identified point of contact, their qualifications/capabilities. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government to not compete this proposed effort on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. All qualified responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html Posted 08/16/99 (D-SN368377). (0228)

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