SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PLASMA WAVE INSTRUMENT ANTENNA
- Notice Date
- 12/17/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- GBN101-2009-1
- Archive Date
- 12/17/2010
- 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
- NASA GSFC is considering proposing a Plasma Wave Instrument to be part of the SolarProbe Plus mission. NASA GSFC is seeking a partner to provide the booms (or antenna) forthis investigation. The potential GSFC instrument will be designed to meet the relevantscience objectives of the Solar Probe Plus mission, as currently understood. The Solar Probe Plus Announcement of Opportunity (AO) was released on December 3, 2009and may be found at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/. Relevant documents may be found in theSolar Probe Mission Library: http://lws.larc.nasa.gov/solarprobe/spmlib.html.The instrument team will be submitting a proposal in response to this Solar Probe PlusAO. Proposals to this AO will be selected through a single-step process for a Phase Astudy only, with options for Phase B and further development Phases leading to launch,operations, and science results.The following schedule has been published as part of the AO:AO releaseDecember 3, 2009 Proposals dueMarch 26, 2010Selection for Phase A studyFall, 2010 (estimate)Phase A report dueTBDFinal instrument selectionTBDPreliminary Design ReviewTBDCritical Design ReviewTBDLaunch2018 (estimate)End of OperationsLaunch + TBD years This partnership opportunity is being issued to select an industry team partner to teamwith GSFC on a plasma wave instrument proposal. This partner will assist in the Phase Astudy, if the instrument is selected for further studies, and will provide a flightqualified system should the instrument be selected for flight. For the portion of this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of theinitial submission in response to the Solar Probe AO, there will be no exchange of fundsbetween the teaming partners. Funding will be available for Phase A and subsequentphases should the instrument be selected for those additional phases.Points of Contact: Questions about this POD should be directed to The respondents shall deliver the requested information electronically in a pdf formatto:Julia BreedNASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterCode 101Building 8, Room 320Greenbelt, MD 20771(julia.w.breed@nasa.gov) 301-286-8665Final Due Date of POD Response: The response of the POD is due 4:30pm EST on January 5,2010. The electronic PDF document shall be sent to Julia Breed (julia.w.breed@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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