Doing Business With Ames Research Center

Revised:  03/23/07

Ames Research Center (ARC) provides vital research and technology for the United States space program, aeronautics industry, and national security. Ames is recognized for technical excellence in life sciences, human factors and man-machine interactions, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, aerodynamics and flight dynamics, flight stability and control, and technical project management. More than 30 of the Nation's principal technological facilities reside at ARC, including the world's most sophisticated wind tunnel complex and most advanced supercomputing system. ARC represents approximately 4% of the agency budget; the single largest category of contracting opportunities involves on-site services in support of the activities identified above.

Interested parties may obtain a copy of ARC's standard information package by contacting the Acquisition Division via email acquisition@mail.arc.nasa.gov . Please include a mailing address with your request. Our information package includes a list of helpful URLs and a list of our prime contractors.

To keep abreast of acquisition opportunities, we recommend the use of NASA's automated electronic notification service by subscribing to the NAIS Email Notification System.  The URL is http://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/nens/index.cgi . Offerors are able to track actions by product category, Center, or specific acquisition by using this tool.

If, after receiving ARC's information package, you have any more questions, please contact the Acquisition Division directly.

The contact information for the small business specialist is:

•  Lupe Velasquez

Telephone: (650) 604-4522
Facsimile: (650) 604-3020

•  Address correspondence to:

NASA, Ames Research Center
M/S 241-1/Small Business Specialist
Moffett Field , CA 94035-1000

As a primary contact point for interface between ARC and the business community at large relating to information and instruction on how to do business with NASA, the small business specialist facilitates access to and awareness of the federal NASA procurement system as it applies to ARC largely via in-person counseling sessions, telephonic contact, attendance at a limited number of conferences and trade fairs, and distribution of pertinent information, including some publications routinely available from NASA Headquarters and the other NASA Centers. The small business specialist is also the primary Center advocate for small business firms, women-owned businesses, and small, disadvantaged businesses.

It is important to note the small business specialist:

1. Cannot assist contractors in the preparation of proposals
2. Cannot in any way guarantee a receipt of a contract award
3. Serves as an advisor to the Contracting Officer who has final authority over contractual matters
4. Is not involved with personnel matters pertaining to the hiring of new employees either as NASA civil servants or contractor employees
5. Does not solicit/accept gratuities.