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

70 -- SLTMAS HOST UPGRADE SOL 8-W-5-16-86385 POC Contact Sherri Stroud, GP22/Contracting Officer, 205-544-0329 NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Offer (RFO) for SLTMAS Host Upgrade Kit, ModComp Model 9260U-2 NASA/MSFC intends to purchase from Modular Computer Systems, Inc. the following items: Upgrade from Model 9230 to Model 9260A -- Kit consists of single board processor with 128K cache, 16MB of memory, 128 register sets of 16 registers, integrated Enhanced Floating Point Accelerator, interface for two ModComp Intelligent I/O Sequencer (IOS) modules supporting 63 DMP channels, and processor support to Mod Comp MAX 32 operating system; includes firmware cartridge with initialization routines and installation of total kit -- Qty 2 ea -- 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 sherri.stroud@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- Note: This sole-source procurement, described is based on system compatability requirements -- Interested firms have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit their qualifications/capabilities in the critical areas mentioned 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 -- The solicitation and any related documents to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents will be 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''. (0177)

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