NASA, Johnson Space Center, BL2, Houston, TX 77058-3696

L -- TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE SERVICES TO SUPPORT MAINTENANCE SOL 9-BL2-60-6-04P DUE 051596 POC Contract Specialist: Judy Russell, (713) 244-9925 Contract Officer: Alice Jean Pursell, (713) 244-9922 NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) to negotiate with only one source, Northrop Grumman Corporation, under authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1), to provide technical representative services to support maintenance and operations of T-38 and Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) at Ellington Field. A full-time technical representative is required to provide liaison between NASA and Northrop Grumman Corporation personnel to support daily maintenance and operations of aircraft and related ground support equipment. The contractor's technical representative shall be required to provide interpretation and refinement of aircraft maintenance and operations procedures; assistance in defining equipment, spares, test equipment and special fixture requirements; logistics assistance in obtaining parts from the factory and other suppliers; liaison with corporate personnel to ensure effective transfer of systems information and engineering data; acquisition of corporate engineering support as required for design, fabrication, and implementation of modifications; engineering anlyses and studies to evaluate operational problems and proposed modifications to hardware and/or procedures. See Numbered Note 22. This procurement is being conducted under the NASA/JSC MidRange Pilot Test Program approved by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy on April 16, 1993 -- Requests for copies of the RFO must be submitted to the contracting specialist/officer. The intended source for this procurement, Northrop Grumman Corporation, is uniquely qualified to fulfill this requirementbecause it represents a merger of the firms that manufactured and designed the (Northrop) T-38 aircraft as well as modified NASA's (Grumman) Gulfstream (G2's) to the STA configuration. -- All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. -- The RFO will be released on or about May 15,1996. OR (15 days after publication of the synopsis in Commerce Business Daily (CBD)). -- If there are any questions, the contracting specialist may be contacted via E-mail at judy.k.russell1@jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 244-9925 or to the contracting officer may be contacted via E-mail at alice.j.pursell1@jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 244-9922. (0099)

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