NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

70 -- SOFTWARE SOL 8-P-5-15-12934 POC Contact Janice M. Stewart,GP26T, 205-544-6093/Contract Specialist, or Teresa Foley, GP25/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for the SES/Objectbench Tools, Maintenance, and Training -- The RFO will be released to Scientific & Engineering Software, Inc., 4301 Westbank Drive, Austin, TX 78746 -- The authority for this procurement is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), because Scientific & Engineering Software Inc., is the only known source who has the unique software and services which meets all of the minimum requirements -- NASA/MSFC intends to purchase the following items: (1) SES\Objectbench Editor; (2) SES/Objectbench Editor Maintenance; (3) SES\Objectbench Simulator; (4) SES/Objectbench Simulator Maintenance; (5) SES/Objectbench Training Class On-Site (2 days) -- This procurement is being conducted under the NASA/MSFC 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 in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9080 or by Internet e-mail to janice.stewart@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- Note: This sole-source is procurement, described is based on proprietary software and system capability requirements -- Interested firms have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit their qualifications/capabilities in the areas listed above, along with a request for a copy of the solicitation -- Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis -- Responses received after the 15 days or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered -- A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract, on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government -- Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice -- RFO will be released on or about 15 days after publication in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) -- Firm date for receipt of offers will be stated in the RFO -- Documents related to this procurement are available over the Internet -- The documents are in ASCII format and reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC -- The WWW address, or URL, of the MSFC Procurement home page is: ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov''. (0095)

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