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A -- PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR COMPOSITE MIRROR FOR VENUS SOUNDER FOR PLANETARY EXPLORATION (VESPER) MISSION SOL POD-VESPER1-119 DUE 011599 POC Rex T. Elliott, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-6204, Fax (301)286-0247, Email Rex.T.Elliott.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#POD-VESPER1-119. E-MAIL: Rex T. Elliott, Rex.T.Elliott.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is seeking an industry partner(s) to develop design concepts for the mirrors of the Submillimeter Limb Sounder (SLS) instrument for the Venus Sounder for Planetary Exploration (VESPER) and support the development of a proposal to respond to the NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for a Discovery Mission AO-98-OSS-04. Additional information about the Discovery Mission Program can be found at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oss/ao/98-oss-04/. It is expected that primary selection of the VESPER mission under the AO and the availability of funds would result in a mirror contract for the selected partner(s). GSFC plans to select a partner(s) using the following steps: 1) issue a Partnership Opportunity Document, which includes a mission overview of VESPER, mirror specifications, and instructions about how to respond to this partnership opportunity; 2) schedule oral presentations; 3)receive presentation packages from interested Partnership Opportunity Document respondents; 4) conduct oral presentations; 5) evaluate written and oral presentations; and 6) select and notify industry partners no later than the week of February 22, 1999. GSFC intends to release this Partnership Opportunity Document on the internet, shortly after January 8, 1999. All Partnership Opportunity Document respondents who intend to make an oral presentation must provide written or electronic notice by no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, January 15, 1999. Notice shall be by email to Dr. H. John Wood at howard.j.wood@gsfc.nasa.gov, or in writing to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Attention: Dr. H. John Wood, Code 551, Building 5, Room E94A, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (Fax: 301-286-1750). All Partnership Opportunity Document respondents shall deliver their complete oral presentation packages to Dr. Wood at the above address by no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 3, 1999. Contact Dr. Wood at 301-286-8278, if you have any questions or require additional information. This Partnership Opportunity Document does not represent a guarantee of selection for hardware development. GSFC does not currently have a requirement for the SLS instrument or funds to support its development. In responding to this notice, please reference "VESPER Mirror Partnership Opportunity Document." This solicitation/synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the government, nor will the government pay for the information solicited. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Internet Note "B". The documents for this partnership opportunity will be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) format and will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWW address, or URL of the NASA/GSFC Business opportunities home page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/class.html. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor this site for the release of the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments, if any. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html Posted 01/08/99 (D-SN286405). (0008)

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