SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR BANDWIDTH SUPPORT TO RETURN TO FLIGHT MISSIONS (STS-114, STS-121)
- Notice Date
- 4/6/2005
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NASA-SNOTE-050406-001
- Archive Date
- 4/6/2006
- Description
- INTRODUCTION The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Vision is: To improve life here, To extend life to there, To find life beyond. As Discovery and Atlantis are readied for their respective Return to Flight Missions, NASA is preparing to meet public demand to see the launches and missions. NASA?s primary method for disseminating content is via the NASA Web Portal (www.nasa.gov). Based on data from previous missions (Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Huygens Landing, etc?) we expect 20 to 30 million visits to the NASA Web Portal with 250,000 to 500,000 Internet users also accessing NASA TV coverage via Web Streaming. In the existing portal infrastructure, if this demand increase materializes, NASA may: 1. Cap the number of visitors and hours of web streaming coverage. This would force visitors to find content from other venues that may or may not cover the Return to Flight Missions. 2. Increase NASA?s bandwidth coverage under NASA?s existing contract to support the NASA Portal to meet the increased demand. NASA is releasing this announcement to solicit proposals from Non-NASA entities to support option 2 by sponsoring the bandwidth costs associated with increasing public access for the Return to Flight Missions. In exchange for this sponsorship NASA will consider offers to display the logo of the sponsor(s) and give credit to the sponsor(s) on the NASA Web Portal for the contribution of bandwidth costs. NASA will consider other suitable innovative concepts to acknowledge and publicize the Offeror?s sponsorship. NASA intends to enter into a Space Act Agreement with the selected sponsor and the existing NASA Web Portal contractor to cover these actions. The selected sponsor(s) will in turn enter into an agreement with the existing NASA Web Portal contractor to pay for the associated costs of the bandwidth or a portion thereof. This Announcement is open through April 13, 2005. NASA will not issue paper copies of this announcement. NASA reserves the right to select for Space Act Agreement all, some or none of the proposals in response to this announcement. NASA provides no funding for reimbursement of proposal development costs. Material submitted in response to this Announcement will not be returned. It is the policy of NASA to safeguard all proposals as confidential and privileged information and NASA will not, without permission of the Offeror, use or disclose their contents for other than evaluation purposes. See attached document for the complete announcement.
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