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Reply to Attn of: 406

> August 31, 2005

TO: All Interested Vendors

FROM: 406 / Associate Chief, Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO)

SUBJECT: Release of Geo-Quick Ride and MISTI Instrument Flight
Opportunity Request for Information (RFI)

This RFI seeks to gather information on the interest of industry in
participating in the described Geo-Quick Ride Program in general and in
accommodating the flight of the MISTI instrument specifically.

We request that interested companies indicate their intention to provide
responses to Art Unger, Associate Chief of the RSDO, at 301.286.0404 or
Bruce Milam, Project Development Manager, at 301.286.0429 by September
10, 2005.

Written responses are requested to be sent and postmarked on or before
September 26, 2005. Please mail your responses to The Rapid Spacecraft
Development Office (RSDO), Code 406, Building 16W, Room N115, NASA
Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD, 20771 and
indicate "To the Attention of Art Unger". Please also provide e-mail
copies of your response by 3:00pm on September 26, 2005 to Art Unger
(<arthur.m.unger@nasa.gov>), Bruce Milam
([bruce.milam@nasa.gov](mailto:John.F.Durning@nasa.gov)) and Camille
Thurston (<camille.m.thurston@nasa.gov>).

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is the sponsor of the
Geo-Quick Ride program.

We are interested in having interested vendors develop a general list of
tasks that they envision are needed to accommodate a flight instrument
on their commercial geo-synchronous spacecraft, to complete spacecraft
testing and launch and to support operations of the instrument for a
period of three years. A rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost of
performing that set of tasks is also requested.

As always, this RFI does not obligate the U.S. Government to a future
procurement. Furthermore, all effort performed as a result of this RFI
will be financed by the vendor. The U.S. Government will not reimburse
the vendor for any effort completed under this RFI. Also, the vendor has
a right not to participate in this market research effort.

The U.S. Government will protect all proprietary information received
from the vendors, and distribution of any material will be based on a
strict need-to-know basis.

Arthur M. Unger

Enclosure