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A -- CODE 912 MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES BRANCH SUPPORT SOL DRFP5-61555-261 DUE 060500 POC Cosimo Lucchese, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 614-5584, Fax (301) 614-5619, Email clucches@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov -- Ann L. Kearney, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)614-5610, Fax (301)614-5619, Email akearney@pop200.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#DRFP5-6155 5-261. E-MAIL: Cosimo Lucchese, clucches@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for support to Code 912, the Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch of the Earth Sciences Directorate. This Draft RFP will be issued to solicit industry comment on all aspects of the solicitation, such as the definition of requirements (including comments or suggestions concerning unnecessary or inefficient requirements), schedules, proposal instructions, terms and conditions and evaluation approaches. This procurement is a total small business set-aside. See Note 1. The SIC Code is 8731 with a size standard of 500 employees. 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. The resultant contract will support Code 912, the Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch, and will provide performance-based support for its research and development efforts. Key areas of investigation will include cloud and precipitation systems from the scale of individual clouds and thunderstorms through mesoscale convective systems and cyclonic storms and their interaction with the environment. The impact of these systems on regional and global climate will be assessed. The understanding of the interaction of the atmosphere with the land and ocean surface beneath it is of high priority. The development of advanced remote sensing instrumentation (primarily lidar) and techniques to measure meteorological parameters in the troposphere is also an important focus. This procurement consolidates some requirements from three Code 912 contracts NAS5-32952 (Science Systems Applications Inc.); NAS5-31751 (Caelum Corp.) and NAS5-32527 (SESI). The anticipated release date of Draft RFP5-61555-261 is on or about May 19, 2000. Interested parties will have two weeks in which to provide comments. Comments on the Draft RFP are not mandatory. The use of industry comments to structure the final RFP is at the discretion of the Government. Any subsequent RFP will be synopsized prior to its release. Pursuantto FAR 52.215-3, "Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (OCT 1997)", the Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of the Draft RFP, or to otherwise pay for the information solicited. 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 copies of the draft solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanotes.html . An ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". The draft 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 Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/class.html Posted 05/19/00 (A-SN456697). (0140)

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