SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- BETA TESTING OF THE SINDA/G - GFSSP INTERFACE
- Notice Date
- 3/7/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- NASA/John F. Kennedy Space Center, Procurement, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
- ZIP Code
- 32899
- Solicitation Number
- NNK05103401Q
- Response Due
- 4/8/2005
- Archive Date
- 3/7/2006
- Description
- NASA/KSC plans to issue a Request for Quotations (RFQ) for the following Commercial item/services: Beta Testing of SINDA/G ? GFSSP Interface. Task Description / Objective: The Mission Analysis Branch of the Launch Services Program at NASA KSC has the responsibility to ensure that the predicted thermal environments associated with each launch vehicle are met. In general, the Launch Service Provider (LSP) performs the necessary analyses to predict the thermal environment; however, incidents arise where the NASA Launch Services Program (referred to as the Program hereafter) will perform independent verification and validation (IV&V) analyses. When the Program dictates said analyses, adequate modeling tools are necessary. In order to provide efficiency, it may be necessary for tools to interface directly with each other. Such is the situation between two of the codes used by the Program?s thermal team: SINDA/G (Systems Improved Numerical Differencing Analyzer / Gaski) and GFSSP (Generalized Fluid System Simulation Program). SINDA/G is one of the industry standard, commercially available, heat transfer codes. GFSSP, co-winner of the 2001 NASA Software of the Year, is a MSFC developed fluid network code. Currently, the Program?s thermal team has built off of earlier work at MSFC (developed by a current member of the Program?s thermal team) to provide a link between these two codes in order to provide an integrated conjugate heat transfer capability for SINDA/G. The development of the interface has matured to a point where independent testing is necessary to ensure proper functioning. Beta testing of the interface is necessary to ensure its proper functioning via independent testing from an end user perspective. The purpose of this task is to identify, independently develop conjugate models and exercise the interface in order to work out programming bugs and deficiencies prior to release to the community at large. Upon successful completion of this beta testing, the coding, user documentation and supporting testing documentation will be released to the public through the KSC technology transfer program. The contractor will supply labor and necessary infrastructure (computer and necessary basic software) to perform the testing; whereas, the Government will supply the interface with basic documentation as of the start of the task. The contractor will identify, develop requisite models, and conduct the aforementioned beta testing and supply to the Launch Services Program the results of the testing in a final report. The final report will serve as a contract deliverable. Requirements of the Contractor: The individual assigned to perform the testing must have a background in the following areas: - Expertise in Fluid Mechanics - Including: compressible and incompressible flows, - Expertise in Thermodynamics - Including: multiphase, equilibrium and non-equilibrium transient thermodynamics - Expertise in Heat Transfer - Including: conduction, convection (both forced and natural/buoyancy driven), and radiation - Proficient in SINDA/G - Expertise in the computer language FORTRAN - Significant background on spacecraft thermal requirements - Spacecraft-launch vehicle interface thermal requirements - Prelaunch and launch phases - Knowledge of thermal requirements/constraints (demonstrated acceptance and qualification levels) for the launch vehicle, such as Delta IV, Atlas V, or Pegasus. The following background is highly desirable in the individual assigned to perform testing: - Expertise in numerical modeling of fluid behavior - Including: one dimensional, unsteady flows - Working knowledge of the FLUINT half of SINDA/FLUINT - Experience with expendable launch vehicle, and/or spacecraft research and development centers within NASA (GSFC, KSC, MSFC, JPL), in any of the following capacities: direct employee, contract employee, etc. Travel Requirements: None anticipated. Deliverables and Milestone Dates: Deliverables include monthly status reports and a final technical report. Anticipated project milestones: Obtain training on GFSSP 3.0: 4/2005 Identify classical convection benchmark cases: 4/2005 Identify case(s) of interest to Launch Vehicles/Payloads: 4/2005 Prepare benchmark thermal and fluids models (including interface connections): 5-8/2005 Provide feedback on modeling (incl. errors/bugs/suggestions) via weekly activity report: 5-8/2005 Prepare thermal and fluid models for case(s) of interest to LV/SC: 7-8/2005 Prepare final report on BETA testing: 9/2005 Delivery of final report on BETA testing activities: 9/2005 Weekly activity reports (bullet list of work performed and planned) _____ The NAICS Code and Size Standard are 541710 and 500 employees, respectively. The anticipated release date of RFQ No. NNK05103401Q is on or about 3/25/2005 with an anticipated bid due date of on or about 4/8/2005. All responsible sources may submit a quotation which shall be considered by the agency. An ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/KSC Business Opportunities page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=76 Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below. All contractual and technical questions must be submitted in writing (e-mail or FAX) to Tina M. Landes, Contract Specialist (Tina.M.Landes@nasa.gov), not later than 3/22/2005. Telephone questions will not be accepted.
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