NASA, Space Station Program Office, OG-3, Houston, TX 77058

T -- CREATIVE DESIGN SERVICES SOL 15-OG3-11-6-14P DUE 020996 POC Contract Specialist: Kellie Murray, (713) 483-6301 Contract Officer: Lucy Yates, (713) 483-6301 NASA/Space Station Program Office plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for creative design services through a set-aside competition among small businesses (See Numbered Note 1). SIC Code 7336. These services will support the development of creative and innovative concepts of advanced Earth to orbit vehicles, advanced manned and unmanned spacecraft, and other programs at various NASA centers. The contractor will be responsible for providing technically accurate conceptual design, design integration, and sound graphical engineering representation through, but not limited to, illustrations, layout designs, renderings, detailed physical and computer models, Quicktime, Quicktime VR, hypermedia presentations, multimedia displays and broadcast quality computer generated animation's, using state-of-the-art visualization technology. The contractor shall manage and update all current and future vehicle configurations in an electronic database. The contractor shall update and produce broadcast quality computer generated animation's of different configuration baselines in various stages of flight. NASA contemplates a Time-and-Materials type of contract with a base performance period of one year plus four one-year option periods. The specific number and timing of the deliverables can not be defined and will vary during the course of the contract. Parties interested in submitting a proposal for this procurement may contact Kellie Murray at 713/483-6301, by facsimile at 713/483-2746, or via Internet e-mail at KMURRAY@ssf6.jsc.nasa.gov. Anticipated Request for Offer (RFO) release over the Internet is February 9, 1996. All future notices regarding this procurement can be accessed via the internet, and no notices will be published in the Commerce Business Daily. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993. This procurement is a total small business set-aside -- All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offers and potential offerors during the preaward and postaward phases of this acquisition. The purpose of the ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the contracting officer, or the selection official, but to communicate concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations of interested parties to the appropriate Government personnel and to work to resolve them. When requested, the ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals, the source selection process, or the ajudication of formal contract disputes. Interested parties are invited to call the installation ombudsman, Douglas Cooke at 713-244-7508. Concerns, issues, and disagreements which cannot be resolved at the installation may be referred to the NASA ombudsman, Tom Luedtke at 202-358-2090. -- The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents will be in RTF format and will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC or NETSCAPE -- The WWW address, or URL, of the SS Procurement home page is: http://issa.www.jsc.nasa.gov/bd2/ -- It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for solicitation release. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation. The closing date shall be the same as the solicitation released on the Internet. (0026)

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