NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 219, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- THIS PROCUREMENT IS FOR SPECIALIZED SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT SERVICES TO THE DATA ASSIMIATION OFFICE AND THE SOUNDER RESEARCH TEAM. SOL RFP5-12118-254 POC Dawn M. Fountain, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 286-3815, Fax (301) 286-1760, Email Dawn.M.Fountain.1@gsfc.nasa.gov -- Michele Rook, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-4815, Fax (301)286-1760, Email Michele.C.Rook.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#RFP5-12118-254. E-MAIL: Dawn M. Fountain, Dawn.M.Fountain.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) 5-12118/254 for support to Code 910, the Data Assimilation Office (DAO) and the Sounder Research Team (SRT) on or about December 6, 1999. The Draft RFP (DRFP) 5-12118/254 was synopsized on September 13, 1999, and was issued on October 28, 1999, for industry comment. The RFP is being revised for final release. This procurement will be conducted via full and open competition. The SIC Code and Size Standard are 8711 and 500 respectively. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. The DPAS rating for this procurement is DO-C9. This procurement is for specialized scientific support services to the Earth Sciences Directorate (Laboratory for Atmospheres), in the areas of modeling, data assimilation, and satellite data analysis and retrieval. This procurement is a continuation of specific specialized support to the Data Assimilation Office, code 910.3; and the Sounder Research Team, code 910.4. This procurement encompasses research projects in development of numerical schemes suitable for earth science data assimilation, atmospheric modeling, data acquisition and retrievals; objective data quality control, use and impact of new satellite observations of earth, validation of new data assimilation systems, earth-science applications of satellite based data sets, and all aspects of data flow, hardware, and software in the operation of complex scientific algorithms on high performance computers. The basic contract will provide 5 years of support. This procurement is a follow-on effort to requirements currently being performed under two different contracts. The contract numbers and the Contractor's names are as follows: Contract NAS5-32332/General Sciences Corporation (GSC) and NAS5-32585/ Steven Myers & Associates (SM&A)(formerly Space Application Corporation (SAC)). The anticipated release date of RFP5-12118/254 is on or about December 6, 1999, with an anticipated proposal duedate of January 10, 2000. All qualified responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. 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, 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/GSFC Business Opportunities page is: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/class.html Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor the aforementioned Internet site for the release of the draft RFP 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 An ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". Posted 11/09/99 (D-SN399505). (0313)

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