SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- SPECIALIZED ENGINEERING SUPPORT FOR LUNAR ATMOSPHERE AND DUST ENVIRONMENTEXPLORER-LADEE
- Notice Date
- 1/13/2009
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
- ZIP Code
- 94035-1000
- Solicitation Number
- NNA0971067-Q
- Response Due
- 1/23/2009
- Archive Date
- 1/13/2010
- Point of Contact
- Jeffrey S. Brown, Contracting Officer, Phone 650-604-4696, Fax 650-604-0912, />
- E-Mail Address
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jeffrey.s.brown@nasa.gov<br
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This notice is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared inaccordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additionalinformation 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 Quotations (RFQ)on the following Statementof Work:"Specialized Engineering Support for the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer(LADEE) Project at Ames Research CenterTask 1)Provide Systems Engineering support for LADEE as follows, (note the level ofeffort is estimated at 1 FTE): a. Support Systems Requirements Review scheduled for May 2009. Specific duties includedeveloping Level 1-3 Requirements for LADEE, establishing data link budgets for the LADEEmission, tracking and maintaining the Master Equipment List (MEL) and associated marginsand reserves for the launch stack, and coordinating Interface Requirement Documents,IRDs, with spacecraft payload office at GSFC. b. Support LADDE Preliminary Design review schedule for Oct 2009. Specific dutiesinclude supporting engineering design trades for spacecraft mass, power and data rates,coordinate and help develop Systems Engineering documentation including the SystemsEngineering Management Plan, SEMP, Project Plan.Task 2) Provide Spacecraft thermal Engineering analysis to support LADEE as follows,(note the level of effort is estimated at 1 FTE):: a. Support Systems Requirements Review scheduled for May 2009. Specific duties includerequirements development including but not limited to: establishing requirements for anrange of mission orbits and altitudes, ground cooling, autonomy requirements,failure/survival modes, reliability, subsystems interface requirements. Development ofPayload Thermal Interface Requirements Documents b. Support LADEE Preliminary Design Review, (PDR), schedule for October 2009. Specificduties include preliminary thermal design calculations for the spacecraft main body,radiator, solar arrays, batteries, & payload interfaces. Identify thermal instrumentationincluding flight sensors and test sensors. c. Prepare presentation material for SRR, PDR and monthly management reviewsTask 3) Provide Telecommunications analysis to support the LADEE telecommunications LeadEngineer in preparing for the LADEE Support Systems Requirements Review scheduled for May2009 and LADEE PDR schedule for October 2009. This task requires a 0.1 FTE level ofeffort.Location: Contractor personnel must be available on-site for significant portions of thiswork.Period of Performance: February 1, 2009 through November 1, 2009."The provisions and clauses in the RFQ are those in effect through FAC 05-25This procurement is a total small business set-aside. See Note 1.The NAICS Code and the small business size standard for this procurement are 541330 and$4.5m respectively. The offeror shall state in their offer their size status for thisprocurement.All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.Offers for the requirements described above are due by January 23, 2009 to the PrimaryPoint of Contact listed below, and must include solicitation number, FOB destination tothis Center, proposed delivery schedule, discount/payment terms, warranty duration (ifapplicable), taxpayer identification number (TIN), identification of any specialcommercial terms, and be signed by an authorized company representative. Offerors areencouraged to use the Standard Form 1449, Solicitation/Contract/Order for CommercialItems 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 (June 2008), Instructionsto Offerors-Commercial Items, which is incorporated by reference.If the end product(s) offered is other than domestic end product(s) as defined in theclause entitled "Buy American Act -- Supplies," the offeror shall so state and shall listthe country of origin.FAR 52.212-4 (FEB 2007), Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items is applicable.FAR 52.212-5 (JUNE 2007), Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes orExecutive Orders-Commercial Items is applicable and the following identified clauses areincorporated by reference: 52.222-3, 52.222-19, 52.222-21, 52.222-26, 52.222-35,52.222-36, 52.222.37, 52.225-1, 52.225-13, and 52.232.34The 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 All contractual and technical questions must be in writing (e-mail or fax) to Jeffrey S.Brown not later than January 20, 2009. Telephone questions will not be accepted.Selection and award will be made to the lowest priced, technically acceptable offeror.Technical acceptability will be determined by review of information submitted by theofferor which must provide a description in sufficient detail to show that the productoffered meets the Government's requirement.Offerors must include completed copies of the provision at 52.212-3, OfferorRepresentations and Certifications - Commercial Items with their offer. These may be maybe obtained via the internet at URL: http://orca.bpn.gov/. This information may beentered directly into the ORCA Database for future use. Please indicate on quotation ifthe vendors Representations and Certifications have been entered at ORCA.Offerors must currently be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR).Further information about CCR registration can be accessed at http://www.ccr.gov All successful offerors must file a 2007 VETS-100 Report with the US Department of Labor,http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=21.An ombudsman has been appointed -- See NASA Specific Note "B".Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It isthe offeror's responsibility to monitor the following Internet site for the release ofsolicitation amendments (if any):http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=21. Potential offerors willbe responsible for downloading their own copy of this combination synopsis/solicitationand amendments (if any).Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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