JPL, Attn: Thomas May, Mail Stop 190-205, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099

A -- JPL OPTICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS SOL 98/10 DUE 050598 POC Thomas May (818) 354-2121 E-MAIL: Optical Support Services, thomas.h.may@jpl.nasa.gov. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology (JPL/Caltech), operating under a prime contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is seeking companies to provide Optical Support Services for a lab-wide contract. It is anticipated that this effort will be awarded to multiple companies in the geographical areas of Santa Barbara to San Diego. The companies shall make available, on an as-needed basis, the following: (1) engineering and support personnel; (2) a laboratory; (3) testing; (4) prototype fabrication/model shop (for those companies who respond to Item 9 below); (5) office facilities; (6) administrative capability to perform and provide, when authorized by issuance of individual Contract Work Orders(CWOs), assistance to JPL in the field of Optics, primarily for flight instruments. CWOs will typically be of short scope and duration (e.g., one Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) per six to eight weeks), to be performed on site at JPL or off-site local to JPL, at the Laboratory's discretion. Off-site local to JPL implies that no travel arrangements are required for JPL staff to meet at the off-site location and meetings at the off-site location can be scheduled into a regular workday routine. All work is to be done using software to which JPL has licensed access (e.g., CodeV, LightTools, and Mechanical DeskTop, as well as other tools may be specified by JPL). Rapid response (e.g., 72-hour) from pre-CWO issuance to commencement of work is required in the areas outlined below: (1) Optical Systems Engineering Design and Analysis -- (a) active and passive designs; (b) ultraviolet through thermal infrared spectrum; (c) opto-mechanical; (d) interferometer assemblies; (e) thermo-optical; (f) electro-optical; and (g) error budget flow-downs. (2) Optical Computer-Aided Design (CodeV and LightTools based support); (3) Cartooning of Optical Designs; (4) Cost Modeling and Estimation -- (a) quality vs. schedule risk; and (b) distribution of error budget; (5) Optical Manufacturing Specifications; (6) Quality Assurance Methodology; (7) Interface JPL property software such as MACOS, VSIM and IMOS1 with commercial optics design tools, including CodeV; and (8) Hardware Prototype and Fabrication. Responses of interest to this synopsis shall include: (1) company name; (2) address; (3) phone and FAX numbers; (4) point of contact; and (5) a brief summary of your company's capabilities no later than May 5, 1998 to: JPL, Attn: Thomas May, Mail Stop 190-205, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 or via E-mail to: thomas.h.may@jpl.nasa.gov. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP). (0114)

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