SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY DOCUMENT FOR CANDIDATE MISSION FOR THE NASA EXPLORERPROGRAM
- Notice Date
- 9/16/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 927110
— Space Research and Technology
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- GBN-6652009
- Archive Date
- 9/16/2010
- Point of Contact
- Dawn M. Fountain, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-3815, Fax 301-286-1773, Email Dawn.M.Fountain@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Dawn M. Fountain
(Dawn.M.Fountain@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Small Explorers (SMEX) orMedium Explorers (MIDEX), currently anticipated within the next 6 to 18 months. TheGoddard Space Flight Center is developing a mission concept to be proposed for this AO. This partnership opportunity is being issued to select a teaming partner(s) to developthe mechanical cryo-cooler design for the mission.The proposed mission is currently in pre-Phase A. The mission will be proposed inresponse to the next Explorer AO. The cost cap for this AO is not yet known. Theprevious Small Explorers AO, issued in September 2007, had a cost cap of $105M excludinga NASA-provided launch vehicle. There will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners for the AO proposalcycle.If the proposed mission is selected for a Phase A Concept Study, limited fundingwill be available according to the budget developed during proposal preparation. If theproposed mission is selected for flight, partner(s) will be funded according to thebudget developed during AO proposal phase.For the portion of this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of theinitial submission to the Explorer AO there will be no exchange of funds between theteaming partners. Funding will be available for Phase A and subsequent phases should themission be competitively selected for those additional phases.Points of Contact: Questions about this POD should be directed to Julie Crooke (Phone:301-286-7255, Email: Julie.A.Crooke@nasa.gov). Final Due Date of POD Response: The response of the POD is due 5 pm EDT on October 16,2009. The electronic PDF document shall be sent to Julie Crooke (Email:Julie.A.Crooke@nasa.gov) The requested information through this POD is for preliminary planning purposes only anddoes not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that NASA will solicit thesubmitter for a procurement of any related effort in the future. NASA will not beresponsible for any costs incurred by submitters in furnishing this information. This solicitation/synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government norwill the Government pay for the information solicited.An ombudsman has been appointed.See Internet Note B.The documents for this partnership opportunity will be inMicrosoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) format and will reside ona World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWW address, or URL, of the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities home page ishttp://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=51. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor this cite for the release of thePartnership Opportunity Document and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will beresponsible for downloading their own copy of the Partnership Opportunity Document andamendments, if any. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL:http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html.
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