NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 214.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- INTER-SATELLITE RANGING AND ALARM SYSTEM DESIGN STUDY DUE 050500 POC Debra C. Kaelberer, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)286-8630, Fax (301)286-0341, Email Debra.Kaelberer@gsfc.nasa.gov -- Thomas Russell, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-2885, Fax (301)286-0341, Email Thomas.S.Russell.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51#SS-5- 54229-503. E-MAIL: Debra C. Kaelberer, Debra.Kaelberer@gsfc.nasa.gov. This serves as a Sources Sought Notice and Market Survey to locate qualified small business sources capable of performing a study to investigate a low mass and power antenna and receiver for an inter-spacecraft ranging and alarm system for the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission. This work will also require the production of a laboratory test bed and prototype components. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a solicitation and no solicitation package exists at this time. No contract will be awarded as a result of this sources sought notice. The Government will not pay for any materials provided in response to this synopsis and submittals will not be returned to the sender. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in the CBD and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these cites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Small businesses having the capabilities necessary to provide the described services are invited to submit appropriate documentation which will demonstrate that it has the ability to perform this service. The applicable Standard Industrial Classification Code for this acquisition is 8731 and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees. Companies must sufficiently demonstrate that they have the capability to perform this service and must provide detailed experience and qualifications in all previous work pertinent to this effort. Responses must also include the following: name and address of firm; size of business (number of employees); number of years in business; and list of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact -- address and phone number). Interested sources are requested to submit a package delineating qualifications and capabilities for meeting the requirements described herein to the following address: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, ATTN: Debra Kaelberer, Code 214.4, Building 6, Room W142, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771. Responses may be faxed at 301-286-0341. Capability Statement must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. EDT on May 5, 2000. Posted 04/20/00 (D-SN446976). (0111)

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