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

99 -- INDIVIDUAL TRIP AVIATION WEATHER FORECAST SERVICE FOR JOHNSON SPACE CENTER (JSC) AIRCREWS SOL 9-BL2-04-6-08P DUE 092396 POC Contract Specialist: Stacy McDaniel, (713) 244-9926 Contract Officer: Alice J. Pursell, (713) 244-9922 NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Proposal(RFP) for necessary certified aviation weather forecasters, services, and equipment to provide individual weather forecast services for NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) aircrews. NASA JSC, Aircraft Operations Division operates a fleet of aircraft, including 28 T-38s, five GII59s, one KC135, two B747s, one GI59, and one WB57F. The contractor shall provide a 24-hour-a-day aviation weather forecasting service. This service shall include a toll-free, direct telephone access number for NASA JSC aircrews to obtain an unlimited number of accurate aviation weather forecasts for domestic United States operations. The requirement is for a locally-based (Houston, Texas) aviation weather service familiar with the weather patterns of the Houston-Gulf Coast area. The contractor shall also provide an in-house software access program which will enable JSC aircrews to obtain accurate and current forecast weather information for flight planning. The information displayed is required to be printable to enable aircrews to carry a hard copy. This program is required to provide all the flight planning weather information that is normally obtained via a verbal briefing from a certified aviation weather forecaster. In addition to these services, the contractor shall provide other services on an as-ordered basis. The cost for these services will be paid for on an as-used basis. These services include fuel contracting arrangements, domestic and international high frequency (HF) phone patch service, computerized flight plans, airport handling and diplomatic permit services for international flights, and international and domestic Telex services. 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. This notice is a synopsis for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6. This procurement shall result in an indefinite quantity contract. The proposed contract will contain a one-year base period beginning November 1, 1996, and two one-year options as detailed in the RFP. The provisions and clauses in the RFP are those in effect through FAC 90-40. The offeror shall state in their offer their size status for this procurement. The SIC code and the size standard for this procurement are 8999 and $5,000,000.00, respectively. Technical acceptability will be determined by information submitted by the offeror providing a description in sufficient detail to show that the services offered meets the Governments requirement. All responsible business sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. Offers (including FAR 52.212-3, Offerors Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items) are due on October 10, 1996. Offers shall be submitted to the contract specialist at the address specified above, or offers may be faxed to the contract specialist at (713) 483-3601, followed up with the original by mail. Questions regarding this acquisition must be submitted to the contract specialist. An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from quoters, potential quoters, and contractors 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 quotes, the source selection process, or the adjudication of formal contract disputes. Interested parties are invited to call the installation ombudsman, Susan H. Garman at 713-483-0490. Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations which cannot be resolved at the installation may be referred to the NASA ombudsman, Thomas S. 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. The RFP will be released on or about September 23, 1996. If there are any questions, the contract specialist may be contacted via E-mail at smcdanie@ca1.jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) 244-9926 or the contracting officer may be contacted via E-mail at apursell@ba1.jsc.nasa.gov or by phone at (713) (0268)

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