Defense Electronics Supply Center, DESC-EACC, 1507 Wilmington Pike, Dayton, OH 45444-5181

A -- EXPERIMENTAL, DEVELOPMENTAL TEST AND RESEARCH WORK SOL SPO900-95-R-1002. DUE 082595. POC Contract Specialist, Iris Cooper (513) 296-8564, Contracting Officer, Cheryl Montoney (513) 296-6353. Establishment and Operation of the Department of Defense (DoD) Nondestructive Testing Informaton Analysis Center (NTIAC) to be awarded for a three (3) year period with an option to extend for an additional two (2) year period. The contractor shall be responsible for the collection, review, analysis, and dissemination of the NTIAC information and data within the scope of the NTIAC. Primary users are scientists, engineers, and technicians engaged in scientific and engineering programs for DoD. Other users include other U.S. Government Agencies and their contracts and the Private Sector consistent with security and other limitations of the Center's information. The NTIAC shall concern itself with all Scientific and Technical Information (STI) aspects of identified or potential military, national and security-related and dual use applications of Nondestructive Testing (NDT), Nondestructive Inspection (NDI) and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) technologies, as well as the development of tools and techniques for the collection, analysis and dissemination of NDT, NDI and NDE STI. NTIAC is also concerned with the economic aspects of the NDT/NDI/NDE industry, economic considerations with respect to selection of techniques and processes and industry trends in applying current safety monitoring and failure prevention of in-service material. NTIAC shall concern itself with NDT/NDI/NDE science and technology as related to information, documentation, databases, model repositories, analyses, training, laboratory studies, testing, data synthesis, hardware and software. In addition, the NTIAC shall concern itself with areas of NDT/NDI/NDE STI applicable to the DoD Research, Development, Test and Evaluaton (RDT&E) Acquisition communities needs. The STI requirements include, but are not limited to: evaluation of conventional and nontraditional NDT techniques, application of techniques to identified problems, evaluation of problem requirements, evaluation of economic impact, manufacturing process development and improvement, development of computational techniques and hardware, special test equipment and techniques, analytical test techniques, design criteria, maintenance requirement support, reliability improvement, support of acquisition decisions, technology specification and standards, sensor development and evaluation, quality control measurement techniques, lifetime assessment, condition monitoring, civil structures and materials, training and technology transfer, data analysis, and materials characterization. The contractor must have the capability to prepare authoritative technical reference works including technical handbooks, State-of-the-Art reports, critical reviews, technology assessments, and respond to technical and bibliographic inquiries. Sources must have the capability of a full-service Information Analysis Center with immediate access on an as needed basis to scientific and engineering expertise in the range of subjects and disciplines within the Center's scope of work and whose experts' primary assignments are research and development in the required disciplines. Data collection and analysis in a laboratory or under field conditions may be required during the performance of technical area tasks. The estimated issue date for the solicitation SPO900-95-R-1002 is 25 Jun 95. A preproposal conference will be scheduled at the Defense Electronics Supply Center approximatly two weeks after release of the solicitation. Time and exact location will be announced in the solicitation. The estimated closing date is 25 Aug 95. No further announcements regarding this solicitation are anticipated. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered for award by the Defense Logistics Agency. (139)

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