NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

D -- UTILIZATION & MISSION SUPPORT SOL RFP--8-P-5-EO-96299 POC Contact Earl Pendley, GP24-N, 205-544-2949/Contract Specialist NASA plans to award an 5 year contract for Utilization and Mission Support (UMS) consisting of a 3 year base period and 2 one-year options -- UMS will be a comprehensive mission services contract for information services to meet the requirements of MSFC's Mission Operations Laboratory -- The services include systems engineering, design and development, activity preparation, operations, hardware and software maintenance, and verification with MSFC facilities and capabilities in support of ground and flight operations. Facilities supported include the Huntsville Operations Support Center and related systems, the Payload Crew Training Complex/Utilization Development Capability, the Microgravity Center, and the Distributed Active Archive Center which are used in support of Space Transportation System, Spacelab, International Space Station Alpha, Advanced X-Ray Astronomical Facility and Earth Observation Systems programs. A revised copy of the Draft RFP will be made available on the Internet only on or about September 30, 1995. The Uniform resource Locator (URL), or Internet destination for the MSFC Procurement Home Page is: http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov. Select ''Solicitations'' and 8-P-5-EO-92699. A Request for Proposal (RFP) will be released on or about October 15, 1995. -- All requests for the RFP must be in writing and can be faxed to 205-544-9081. -- All companies who requested the Draft RFP will automatically be placed on the formal RFP mailing list and do not have to respond to this announcement. (0271)

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