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

70 -- EXPERT SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT SOFTWARE SOL 8-W-5-14-18240 POC Contact Patsy Hoffman, GP24-I/Contract Specialist, 205-544-7040, or Jane Maples, GP24-L/Contracting Officer NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for expert systems environment software for building and maintaining a training simulator -- NASA/MSFC intends to purchase from Gensym or their authorized Solutions Partners the following items: Item 1, G2 On-line Development License for Silicon Graphics Indy, p/n 1002-610, quantity 1; Item 2, G2 On-Line Run-Time License for Silicon Graphics Indy, p/n 1021-610, quantity 1; Item 3, Gensym Floating Telewindows License, p/n 3415-610, quantity 2; Item 4, One year maintenance/upgrade support for items 1-3, p/n 9500-000 -- All part numbers are Gensym -- Media 1/4'' tape -- FOB destination NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812 -- Delivery 60 days -- This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) portion of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) -- Note: This procurement is sole-source based on proprietary specifications -- Interested firms have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit in writing their qualifications/capabilities in the critical areas mentioned above -- 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 -- See Numbered Note 22 -- Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice -- Responses must be submitted in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9080 or by Internet e-mail to patsy.hoffman@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- 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 ddress, or URL, of the MSFC Procurement home page is: ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov''. (0311)

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