SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- GOOUND STATION SUPPORT FOR SPACE-BASED INTERNET PROTOCOL RESEARCH
- Notice Date
- 2/9/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 517410
— Satellite Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135
- ZIP Code
- 44135
- Solicitation Number
- 182561
- Response Due
- 2/19/2007
- Archive Date
- 2/9/2008
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This notice is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This notice is being issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP) for three years of Autonomous Automated Scheduling of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited and Universal Space Network's ground sattions. The provisions and clauses in the RFP are those in effect through FAC 05-14. The NAICS Code and the small business size standard for this procurement are 517410 respectively. The offeror shall state in their offer their size status for this procurement. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. Delivery to GRC is required within 360, 720, 1080 days ARO. Delivery shall be FOB Destination. The DPAS rating for this procurement is DO-C9 Offers for the items(s) described above are due by 2/19/2007 to NASA Glenn Research Center, Mail Stop 500-306, 21000 Brookpark Rd. Cleveland OH 44135 and must include, reference number, FOB destination to this Center, proposed delivery schedule, discount/payment terms, warranty duration (if applicable), taxpayer identification number (TIN), identification of any special commercial terms, and be signed by an authorized company representative. Offerors are encouraged to use the Standard Form 1449, Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items form found at URL: http://server-mpo.arc.nasa.gov/Services/NEFS/NEFSHome.tml Offerors shall provide the information required by FAR 52.212-1 (JAN 2006), Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, which is incorporated by reference. If the end product(s) offered is other than domestic end product(s) as defined in the clause entitled "Buy American Act -- Supplies," the offeror shall so state and shall list the country of origin. FAR 52.212-4 (SEPT 2005), Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items is applicable. FAR 52.212-5 (JUNE 2006), Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items is applicable and the following identified clauses are incorporated by reference: 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.232-33. The FAR may be obtained via the Internet at URL: http://www.acquisition.gov/far/index.html The NFS may be obtained via the Internet at URL: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/nfstoc.htm STATEMENT OF WORK ? AUTONOMOUS, AUTOMATED SERVICE AGREEMENTS FOR ACCESS TO SPACE 1 INTRODUCTION NASA Glenn Research Center is performing research regarding advanced space-based sensor web, delay/disruption tolerant networking (DTN) protocol development and bundling agent discover. In all cases, the efforts require access to space-based assets using multiple ground stations. Furthermore, the nature of the system development requires secure autonomous machine-to-machine scheduling of such asset. To support the three inter-related research efforts, NASA?s Earth/Sun Science Technology Office (ESTO) is funding NASA Glenn Research Center for development of autonomous, automated service agreements between the secure autonomous intelligent controller and ground systems. These autonomous, automated service agreements will enable NASA to obtain near real-time access to space-based assets ? in this case the Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) onboard the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) United Kingdom - Disaster Monitoring Constellation satellite (UK-DMC). 2 PURPOSE The overlying goal of this effort is to define and enhance standard approaches for internetworking of space and ground assets. The Contractor shall coordinate with Universal Space Networks (USN) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) to provide autonomous, automated scheduling of SSTL?s UK-DMC and USN?s ground stations. In addition, if additional ground assets become available, the methodology used for autonomously scheduling of USN?s and SSTL?s assets shall be applicable to scheduling of others? ground station support. . 3 TASK 1 ? DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND VERIFICATION OF SECURE, AUTONOMOUS, AUTOMATIC SCHEDULING TECHNOLOGY The Contractor shall develop and implement algorithms and code in a virtual mission operations center (VMOC) necessary to enable secure, autonomous, automatic scheduling of SSTL?s UK-DMC and USN?s ground assets. USN?s ground stations that are capable of communication with the UK-DMC are located in Hawaii, Alaska, and Australia. The basic concept of operations is shown in figure 1. Some event such a volcano eruption, earth quake, tsunami or flood is sensed by a remote sensor web. The remote sensor web send and event trigger to the VMOC. The VMOC notes the location of the event and determines what space-base resource is available. In this instance only one space-based resource is available, the UK-DMC. The VMOC then negotiates with SSTL for availability of the asset. Once availability is determined, the VMOC determines what ground support infrastructure is available for both commanding and data retrieval. The VMOC then attempts to schedule these ground assets. If a conflict exists the process is re-initiated, otherwise, the assets are scheduled and commanding and data retrieval is performed. Once the space-based sensor data is available via the VMOC, the VMOC will notify the end users as to the availability and location of such data. 3.1 Development and Test ? The Contractor shall develop a work plan and schedule in accordance with the period of performance to be approved by the NASA Contract Officer Technical Representative (COTR) (See F.3 Reports of Work (GRC 522.227-118) (b) ? The Contractor shall develop an implementation and test plan to be approved by the NASA COTR ? The Contractor shall develop and implement secure autonomous automated scheduling algorithms for SSTL?s DMC satellites and USN?s ground stations. ? The Contractor shall test, verify and demonstrate operation of the overall secure, autonomous, automated scheduling system in accordance with the test plan. The test shall be witnessed by the by NASA COTR or their designated representative. Test shall be performed according to the test plan and approved by the COTR after demonstration of live testing as witnessed by the COTR or their designated representative. 3.2 Documentation Support The Contractor shall document and maintain configuration control using established internal processes and procedures. 3.3 Deliverables Schedule Test and Implementation Plan Demonstration Brief Quarterly Report Final Report 3.4 Schedules Week 0 ? Contract Award Week 2 ? Work Plan and Schedule Week 4 ? Test and Implementation Plan December 2007 ? Test and Demonstration December 31, 2007 ? Final Report 3.5 Period Of Performance Contract Initiation to 31 December 2007 3.6 Special Considerations 3.6.1 NASA currently has a three year contract with USN for up to 60 Satellite passes per year. Any required requests for USN ground infrastructure support for satellite pass shall be paid for under NASA?s current contract with USN and should not be consider in the costing and billing of this contract. 3.6.2 If the UK-DMC becomes unavailable due to loss of satellite or other reason not under the control of The Contractor or NASA, an alternative space platform my be considered (e.g, TACSAT). 4 TASK II OPTION ? ENHANCEMENTS TO THE AUTOMATED SCHEDULING TECHNOLOGY TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL GROUND AND SPACE ELEMENTS This task is to allow NASA to enhance the secure, autonomous, automated scheduling system. The Contractor shall enhance the VMOC?s secure, autonomous, automated scheduling system by adding additional ground and/or space-based assets into the system. Such ground-base assets may include ground stations operated by third parties such as the European Space Agency or Japan?s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Space assets may include other DMC satellites or the Tactical Satellite being funding by the United States the Office of Force Transformation (OFT). The enhanced concept of operations is shown in figure 2. 4.1 Development and Test ? The Contractor shall develop a schedule in accordance with the period of performance to be approved by the NASA Contract Officer Technical Representative (COTR) ? The Contractor shall develop and implementation and test plan to be approved by the NASA COTR ? The Contractor shall develop and implement secure autonomous automated scheduling algorithms for the specified satellites and /or the specified ground stations. ? The Contractor shall test, verify and demonstrate operation of the overall secure, autonomous, automated scheduling system in accordance with the test plan. The overall approval and determination of success shall be by the NASA COTR. 4.2 Documentation Support The Contractor shall document and maintain configuration control using established internal processes and procedures. 4.3 Deliverables Schedule Test and Implementation Plan Demonstration Brief Quarterly Report Final Report 4.4 Schedules Week 0 ? Contract Award Week 2 ? Work Plan and Schedule Week 6 ? Test and Implementation Plan December 2008 ? Test and Demonstration December 31, 2009 ? Final Report 4.5 Period Of Performance 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2009 4.6 Special Considerations 4.6.1 NASA currently has a three year contract with USN for up to 60 Satellite passes per year. Any required requests for USN ground infrastructure support for satellite pass shall be paid for under NASA?s current contract with USN and should not be consider in the costing and billing of this contract. All contractual and technical questions must be in writing (e-mail or fax) to Gary A. Golinski no later than 2/15/2007. Telephone questions will not be accepted. Selection and award will be made to that offeror whose offer will be most advantageous to the Government, with consideration given to the factors of proposed technical merit, price, and past performance. It is critical that offerors provide adequate detail to allow evaluation of their offer. (SEE FAR 52.212-1(b)). Offerors must include completed copies of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items with their offer. These may be obtained via the internet at URL: http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/eps/Templates/Commercial_Greater_Than_25K.doc. These representations and certifications will be incorporated by reference in any resultant contract. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See NASA Specific Note "B". Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the following Internet site for the release of solicitation amendments (if any): http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=22 . Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of this combination synopsis/solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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