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66 -- FORCE MEASUREMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL 1-132-GHE.1447 DUE 121596 POC C. Tom Weih, Contract Specialist, 757-864-3878. NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER, Hampton, Virginia, plans to issue a Request For Offer (RFO) (Internet access only) for 1-132- GHE.1447 O/A December 15, 1996, with a proposal due date approximately 45 days thereafter. The contractor will be required to provide Force Measurement Support Services (FMSS). FMSS consists of force transducer evaluation and hardware design, force transducer fabrication, strain gage application, force transducer calibration, force transducer installation and troubleshooting, instrumentation repair, calibration and maintenance, force transducer exigency requirements, force transducer and task processing and record documentation, metrology and computer programming and maintenance. The scope of the work is to provide daily operations for Langley Research Center's Aerospace Research and Development programs, through engineering design, drafting, instrumenting, repairing, calibrating and completely evaluating existing force and strain measuring instrumentation. The contractor must be prepared to perform exigency requirements on a 24 hour, 7-day-week basis. Further, the contractor will be required to maintain traceability to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for all calibration laboratory standards including load cells, torque wrenches, scales, analytical balances and bi-annual certification of all force transducer calibration weights. Approximately 75 percent of the effort will be performed on-site at NASA LaRC. A hybrid contract consisting of a cost-plus-fixed-fee portion and a fixed-price portion is contemplated with a total potential period of performance of 5 1/2 years, commencing April 1, 1997. The period of performance includes a 1-year initial period, four 1-year option periods, and six 1-month option periods. It is anticipated that 100 percent of the work under this contract will be accomplished under ''completion'' form of contract as defined in paragraph 16.306 (d) (1) and (2) of the FAR, and will be ''performanced-based'' with the contractor performing and being evaluated against specific performance standards/metrics. The fixed price portion of the contract will include instrumentation repair, calibration and maintenance, and metrology. The cost reimbursement portion will cover all other areas as listed above which will be described in written ''performanced-based'' task orders signed by the Contracting Officer. The exigency requirements will be issued via verbal orders from the Government. Written task orders containing these special requirements will be provided within 3 working days. The procurement is a 100 percent small business set-aside. The SIC code for the procurement is 8731 and the small business standard is 1,500 employees. Midrange Procurement Procedures will be used to process this procurement as contained in NASA FAR Supplement Part 1871. A draft Statement of Work for this procurement will be available approximately November 15, 1996, and can be accessed, viewed and downloaded from the NASA Langley Internet Procurement Home Page at http://db-www.larc.nasa. gov/ procurement/home-page.html. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. An ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors, potential offerors, 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, 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 adjudication of formal contract disputes. Before consulting with any ombudsman, interested parties must try to resolve their concerns with the contract specialist or the contracting officer. The LaRC Ombudsman is Belinda Adams. Concerned parties may call Ms. Sandra S. Ray at 757-864-2428. DO NOT CALL THE OMBUDSMAN FOR SOLICITATION REQUESTS/INFORMATION. FOR SOLICITATION REQUESTS/INFORMATION, CONTACT THE POINT OF CONTACT (POC) LISTED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS SYNOPSIS. Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations which cannot be resolved by the installation point of contact or the ombudsman may be referred to the NASA Agency ombudsman Tom Luedtke at 202-358-2090. (0320)

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