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A -- SPACECRAFT ENGINEERING SUPPORT SOL N00173-00-R-LS01 POC Lisa Fleming, Contract Specialist, Code 3230.LS, (202)767-3739, John W. Adams III, Contracting Officer WEB: click here, http://heron.nrl.navy.mil/contracts/home.htm. The Naval Research Laboratory has a requirement for technical and engineering support services to accomplish the sustaining engineering required for the continued development and maintenance of space systems. The contractor shall provide the personnel, supplies, materials, equipment and administration necessary to furnish the engineering support required to develop, document, maintain, and enhance NRL space systems/subsystems, communication systems, tracking systems, and other related equipment and systems. The primary objective of the contractor shall be to provide space system engineering and technical services that include (i) providing conceptual design of spaceflight structures, mechanisms, subassemblies, and Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE), (ii) providing space vehicle prototype, fabricating, assembling, and processing services; (iii) developing, testing, maintaining space vehicle propulsion systems, attitude control systems (ACS), and thermal control systems (TCS); (iv) supporting design verification and environmental testing activities; and (v) designing and integrating electromechanical interfaces between NRL space vehicles and various launch vehicles (manned and unmanned). The contractor's secondary objective shall be to provide mechanical and electromechanical design, development, fabrication, assembly, test integration, inspection, and maintenance support services for all new and modified space system structures, mechanisms and subassemblies. This requirement will be issued unrestricted with a SIC code of 8731 and a small business size standard of 1000 employees. It is anticipated that a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Term type contract will be issued as a result of the solicitation. The base period of performance is anticipated to be for three (3) years with two (2) one-year options. The solicitation will close 30 days after the solicitation issuance date. Numbered Note 26 applies. The NRL uses Electronic Commerce (EC) to issue RFPs and amendments to RFPs. The solicitation and any amendments to it will be available via the Internet at the URL address shown below. Paper copies of the RFP will not be provided. Synopsis LS01.***** Posted 10/21/99 (W-SN393774). (0294)

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