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A -- CODE 912 MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES BRANCH SUPPORT SOL RFP5-61555-261 DUE 080400 POC Cosimo Lucchese, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 614-5584, Fax (301) 614-5619, Email clucches@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov -- Mary Petkoff, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)614-5587, Fax (301)614-5619, Email Mary.J.Petkoff.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#RFP5-6155 5-261. E-MAIL: Cosimo Lucchese, clucches@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/GSFC plans to issue Request for Proposals (RFP) numbered RFP5-61555-261 for support to Code 912, the Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch of the Earth Sciences Directorate. The Draft RFP (DRFP5-61555-261) was synopsized and posted on May 19, 2000 to solicit industry comments. The RFP is being revised for final release. This procurement is a total small business set-aside. See Note 1. The SIC Code is 8731 with a size stnadard 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 RFP5-61555-261 is on or about June 20, 2000 with an anticipated proposal due date of August 4, 2000. All qualified, responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. It is the offerors' responsibility to monitor the aforementioned Internet site for the release of the RFP and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copies of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notescan be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanotes.html . An ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". 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 Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/class.html Point of Contact Name: Cosimo Lucchese II Title: Contracting Officer Phone: (301) 614-5585 Fax: (301) 614-5619 Email: clucches@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov Name: Mary Petkoff Title: Contract Specialist Phone: (301) 614-5587 Fax: (301) 614-5619 Email: mpetkoff@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov Posted 06/05/00 (D-SN461590). (0157)

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