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A -- DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND MANUFACTURING SUPPORT TO ADD AN ADVANCED RESEARCH COCKPIT, AFT FLIGHT DECK (AFD), TO THE FORWARD CABIN AREA OF NASA'S OWNED AND OPERATED BOEING 757-200 RESEARCH AIRCRAFT SOL 1-072-RDR.1000 DUE 052200 POC Richard T Cannella, Contract Specialist, Phone (757) 864-2494, Fax (757) 864-9774, Email r.t.cannella@larc.nasa.gov -- David H. Jones, Contracting Officer, Phone (757) 864-2421, Fax (757) 864-8863, Email D.H.JONES@larc.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=23#1-072-RDR-RDR .1000. E-MAIL: Richard T Cannella, r.t.cannella@larc.nasa.gov. NASA/LaRC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for design, development, and manufacturing support to add an advanced research cockpit, Aft Flight Deck (AFD), to the forward cabin area of NASA owned and operated Boeing 757-200 research aircraft known as the Airborne Research Integrated Experiments System (ARIES) Laboratory. The purpose of NASA's 757 research aircraft is to enhance commercial jet transport safety and efficiency and improve the safety and capacity of the National Airspace System (NAS) and the Air Traffic Control System (ATCS). The airplane, which is based at Langley Research Center, is equipped with a Transport Research System (TRS) and a Flight Deck Research Station (FDRS). Currently, the TRS only provides limited guidance and throttle commands to the flight control system in the airplane. NASA's requirement is to extend the safety and research flexibility of the ARIES Laboratory by adding a fully-functioning advanced research cockpit, called the Aft Flight Deck (AFD), to the forwardcabin area of the aircraft. The AFD must look and function identically, to the maximum extent practicable, to an existing advanced research simulator cockpit, called the Research Flight Deck (RFD). The design of the AFD must be as compatible as possible with the RFD simulator software and hardware already in existence at Langley Research Center (LaRC) in order to permit the expeditious flow of projects from the simulator to the aircraft. NASA/LaRC intends to purchase the support on a sole-source basis from The Boeing Company under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Boeing Company is the only known source that has the requisite capability to perform this effort and owns the proprietary data rights required to perform this effort. The design and fabrication of this highly specialized equipment by any other source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition, cause unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirement that would negatively impact critical research milestones on future projects, and increase the chance of design/fabrication flaws in the 757 aircraft creating an unacceptable level of safety risk to the crew, the aircraft, and potentially the public. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. See Note 22. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html Posted 05/04/00 (D-SN451552). (0125)

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