Defense Supply Center, Columbus, DSCC-PLI, 3990 East Broad Street, P.O. Box 16704, Columbus, OH 43216-5000

A -- EXPERIMENTAL, DEVELOPMENT TEST AND RESEARCH WORK Sol SPO700-96-R-0941. POC Contract Specialist, Johanna Moore (614) 692-7115, Contracting Officer, Cheryl Montoney (614) 692-7114. Establishment and Operation of DoD Reliability Analysis Center (RAC) to be awarded for a three (3) year period with option to extend for one additional two (2) year period. Contractor shall be responsible for collection, review, analysis, appraisal and summary of information related to research and development of military applications of reliability, maintainability, and quality related Scientific and Technical Information (STI) applied to devices, systems, and processes. 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 contractors and the Private Sector consistent with security and other limitations on on the Center's information. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to: reliability program management; reliability data collection and analysis; reliability modeling and prediction; parts control programs and part qualification; reliability problem solving, failure reporting and corrective action system, and reverse engineering; systems/equipment lifetime extension analysis; failure mode, effects and criticality analysis; fault tree analysis; worst case circuit analysis; testability and maintainability analysis; reliability-centered maintenance; electrostatic discharge susceptibility analysis; reliability maintainability test planning and control; environmental stress screening planning; mechanical reliability and maintainability; finite element analysis; quantitative services; total quality management; environmental characterization; and component obsolescence. The technical scope of the RAC shall also include but is not limited to information on the research, development, test, evaluation, and engineering environment constituting the market for reliability, maintainability, and quality STI, techniques for the collection and analysis of business-related information, and STI bearing on technologies and techniques for the collection, analysis, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of reliability, maintainability, and quality STI. The contractor must have the capability to prepare authoritative technical reference works including software, databases, models, technical handbooks, State-of-the-Art Reports, critical reviews, technology assessments, training courses, and respond to technical and bibliographic inquiries. The contractor who operates the center will employ a full time resident staff, knowledgeable in the subject areas and in those disciplines related to the operational requirements of the center. Sources must have the capability of a full-service Information Analysis Center with immediate access on a part-time 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. The issue date for the solicitation SPO700-96-R-0041 is on or about November 15, 1996. To request a copy of the solicitation, send a written request to DSCC-PLI, Attn: J. Moore, P.O. Box 16704, Building 20, Columbus, OH 43216-5000, FAX (614) 692-6935. The date and time (approximately 15 days after issue of the solicitation) of the preproposal conference will be contained in the solicitation. The estimated closing date will be approximately 60 days after the issue date. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered for award by the Defense Logistics Agency. (256)

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