SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- STUDENT AMBASSADORS PROGRAM STEM
- Notice Date
- 8/1/2008
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNH08255061Q
- Response Due
- 8/8/2008
- Archive Date
- 8/1/2009
- Point of Contact
- Wanda B. Moore, Simplified Acquisition Specialist, Phone 301-286-6638, Fax 301-286-0366, - Felecia L. London, Simplified Acquisition Specialist, Phone 301-286-4112, Fax 301-286-0356
- E-Mail Address
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wanda.b.moore@nasa.gov, felecia.l.london.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA Headquarters (HQ), Office of Education, Student Ambassadors Program, plans toprocure services from Omni Media Cast Technologies, LLC (OMCT) to develop, implement, andmaintain a Modern-Contemporary 508 compliant Virtual Student Community Web-site for theNASA Student Ambassador Program. OMCT will develop the Science Technology Engineering,Mathematics (STEM) workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASAs strategic goalsthrough a portfolio of programs, attracting and retaining students in STEM disciplinesthrough a progression of educational opportunities for students, teachers, and facultyand building strategic partnerships and linkages between STEM formal and informaleducation providers that promote STEM literacy and awareness of NASAs mission. The virtual community allows the Office of Education to implement communication andprogram management strategies shared with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) andthe Office of the NASA Administrator that related to intensifying outreach via virtualcommunication to the 18 to "thirty-something" years old STEM population. Thesestrategies seek to increase student retention through the NASA educational pipeline andinto the STEM workforce. NASA requires the technical capabilities, proven experience,access to multimedia tools, and ability to support users (national & international) 24x7at non-traditional hours between international time-zones for all the uniquerequirements. The unique requirements of the OMCT proprietary Interactive VirtualStudent Community Portal are: Personalized registration and login for interns/fellows andproject managers; Blogs, Discussion/Message Boards, and Chat capabilities; NASA eventsand activities listings; Feature stories/student highlight section; Internal/ExternalLinks to STEM related activities; File Exchange/Share capabilities; Real-Time polling(tabulation of communication between users and site questions); Evaluation components:Ability to determine the NASA Ambassador's site impact; Ability to track and analyzesite traffic and provide blogging summaries; Ability to gain feedback on ideas forimprovement from the user perspective; Ability to provide on-going reporting on a weeklyand biweekly basis; Facilitation of Online Peer mentoring sessions; and VideoConferencing, Webcasting, and Web Forums.OMCT technical infrastructure and proprietary virtual community business managementsoftware applications comprise integrated database directory systems, article managementsystem, media application support, secured server hosting, monitoring, storage, encryptedencoding and media delivery which meet the needs of the Agency. OMCT uses a globalplatform to deliver content and applications of any type from server to every Webvisitor, and immediately scale capacity to match changing demands. In addition, OMCToffers on-demand Internet broadcast channels, live and on-demand Web casting, andproprietary online interactive presentation platform, as well as professional servicesconsulting, signal acquisition/satellite re-broadcasting, graphics and animationcreation, template building and customization, and hosting, encoding, and distributionservices. NASA HQs intends to issue a Sole Source Procurement to the Omni Media Cast Technologies,LLC to purchase Modern-Contemporary 508 compliant Virtual Student Community Web-Site. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP).The authority is FAR 6.302-1(a) (2) only one responsible source.The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform theeffort in writing, by FAX or E-Mail, to the identified point of contact not later than11:00 a.m. (EST.) on August 8, 2008. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluatedsolely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on acompetitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed efforton a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solelywithin the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. FAX or E-Mail anyinquiries to the identified point of contact.All responsible sources may submit their qualifications which shall be considered by theagency. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B". Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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