NASA, Johnson Space Center, BJ2, Houston, TX 77058

70 -- APPROXIMATELY 1000 DESKTOP WORKSTATIONS SOL 9-BJ2-36-6-15P DUE 072796 POC Contract Specialist: Fran Mahan, (713) 483-2338 Contract Officer: Ronald Johnson, (713) 483-4164 NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP)for approximately 1000 desktop workstations to support JSC. This procurement will be conducted under FAR Part 12 Acquisition of Commerical Items portion of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA). JSC will perform an evaluation for the purpose of selection which best fits the organizational requirements. The anticipated contract will include delivery of state of the art hardware, integration of a standard software load(provided by JSC), and installation including set-up and local configuration of the workstation onsite at JSC. The Government anticipates Request for Proposal (RFP) release mid-August 1996. Proposals will be due within 30 calendar days of RFP release. Award is anticipated 4 weeks after proposal receipt. 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, the Source Evaluation Board, 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, Susan H. Garman at 713-483-0490. 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 JSC Procurement home page is: ''http://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. Hard copies may be obtained from the JSC Industry Assistance Office via phone 713-483-4511 or fax 713-483-4326. The closing date shall be the same as the solicitation released on the Internet. The RFP will be released 15 days after publication of the synopsis in the Commerce Business Daily. If there are any questions, the contract specialist may be contacted via E-mail at FLMahan@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 483-2338 or the contracting officer may be contacted via E-mail at RJohnso@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 483-4164. (0213)

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