NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000

A -- AERONAUTICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SOL RFP2-37012 POC Ronnee R. Gonzalez, Contracting Officer, Phone (650) 604-4386, Fax (650) 604-4357, Email rgonzalez@mail.arc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/ARC/date.html#RFP2-37012. E-MAIL: Ronnee R. Gonzalez, rgonzalez@mail.arc.nasa.gov. NASA/ARC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for on-site basic and applied experimental and theoretical research for the Aeronautical Information (AI) and ARMY/NASA Rotorcraft Divisions at the Ames Research Center (ARC). The overall services the contractor shall be required to provide are in the areas of aerodynamics, aerospace vehicle design, and advanced information technologies. The intent is to research the aerodynamics of aircraft at subsonic, transonic and supersonic speeds, and to perform research into the aerospace design process and advanced design tools and methods. The services required may include basic, applied and theoretical research as well as management, both administrative and clerical. Activities would also include the development of methods that optimally integrate the computational, experimental and Information Technologies (IT) capabilities to predict aerodynamic flow fields and to perform other vehicle analyses such as the prediction of structural and thermal characteristics; the application of these methods to assist the aerospace industry and NASA in the design of aircraft such as commercial and military transports, rotorcraft, military fighters, and next generation space vehicles; and the development and application of distributed collaborative design and analysis tools, intelligent design tools and frameworks, and methods for design knowledge capture and re-use. A Draft RFP for information and planning purposes and to allow industry the opportunity to furnish comments is anticipated to be released by mid-July. The anticipated release date of the Final RFP is mid-August with proposals due on or about mid-September. A 30-day Phase-In period is anticipated to begin January 23, 2000, with contract performance beginning February 23, 2000. This procurement will have two option periods configured as two-year, one-year, two-year, and is anticipated to be a five-year contract ending on October 31, 2004. This procurement will implement performance-based contracting methods and willuse the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.3. All Contract Task Orders will be performance-based. The proposed contract will not be awarded solely on the basis of price and other price-related factors. Also, it may be necessary to conduct discussions with the responding offerors regarding their proposals. An ombudsman has been appointed-See Note "B". The government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. The proposed contract will be Cost-Plus-Award-Fee (CPAF) with performance-based task order contract elements. This procurement is a total small business set-aside using SIC code 8731, size standard of 1000 employees. See Note 1. In accordance with NFS 1811.603(e)(iii) and (e)(v), a rating DO-C9 (Miscellaneous/Other) will be applied to this acquisition. The contemplated acquisition has been reviewed at the Consolidated Contracting Initiative (CCI) web-site and no other solicitation or contract was found that could provide the effort required. The intent to procure wasannounced on the CCI 1999 Acquisition Forecast web-site to assure that NASA, and other interested parties, are afforded an opportunity to include their requirements in the solicitation. The contemplated contract will be used by the AIT Division and the ARMY/NASA Rotorcraft Division at Ames Research Center. The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) format or RTF format and will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWW address, or URL, of the NASA/ARC Business Opportunities page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/ARC/class.html. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Comments may be forwarded to Ronnee Gonzalez via electronic transmission or by facsimile transmission. Any referenced numbered notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. All qualified responsible sources may submit a proposal [OR bid] which shall be considered by the agency. Posted 06/29/99 (D-SN348647). (0180)

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