SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION OPERATIONS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND SOFTWAREII
- Notice Date
- 4/27/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 336414
— Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNG10321685
- Response Due
- 5/11/2010
- Archive Date
- 4/27/2011
- Point of Contact
- Nylsevalis Ortiz-Collazo, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-2387, Fax 301-286-1670, Email Nylsevalis.Ortizcollazo-1@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Nylsevalis Ortiz-Collazo
(Nylsevalis.Ortizcollazo-1@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/GSFC intends to issue a follow-on sole source contract for the Hubble SpaceTelescope (HST) mission operations, systems engineering, ground system maintenance andflight software development with the incumbent Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company(LMSSC), 7474 Greenway Center Drive, Greenbelt, MD, in order to maintain the health andsafety of the observatory through the next phase of its science mission. NASA/GSFC plans to award LMSSC a cost plus award fee contract pursuant to 10U.S.C.2304(c)(1), Only One Responsible Source, with an estimated period of performance offive years. The proposed cost plus award fee contract will include conducting all elements of HSTmission operations (except science operations), and to perform systems engineering tasksrequired to properly maintain HST flight and ground systems. Mission operationsresponsibilities include safe and efficient control and utilization of the HSTObservatory, maintenance and operation of HST-unique facilities and equipment as well ascreation, maintenance, and utilization of HST operations processes and procedures.Critical systems engineering responsibilities consist of optimizing mission systemcapabilities to maximize HST operations effectiveness and science productivity. This isaccomplished by analyzing and resolving HST mission system anomalies, by developing,integrating, testing, and maintaining HST flight software, ground systems hardware andsoftware, and network infrastructure, and by operating and maintaining numerousHST-unique test facilities and systems. The unique familiarity of the LMSSC team with HST space and ground assets is an essentialkey to successfully achieving critical program goals. The LMSSC team has been HSTsmission contractor for nearly twenty years. Some of the teams members were involved inthe original development of HST, and a significant fraction of the team has more than tenyears of experience with HST. The LMSSC team developed the HST ground and spacecraftoperation systems as they exist today, and the LMSSC team is the only team withexperience operating them. LMSSC has acquired unique experience and extensive knowledgeresolving anomalies, developing workarounds, and modifying the procedures, techniques andapproaches used to operate an aging HST. The national asset nature of the HST missionestablishes a very high standard for the safe and correct conduct of operations and forthe maintenance of maximum science productivity. Only LMSSC possesses the detailed, unique, HST-specific knowledge needed to assure themost efficient HST operation possible. HST operations, processes, and procedures arehighly complex in comparison with newer, more sophisticated, and highly automatedsatellites. The level of expertise needed to operate HST goes far beyond providing theday-to-day actions of a flight operations team to monitor telemetry, playback sciencedata, and complete command uplinks to HST computers. The importance of the LMSSC teamowes to the irreproducible level of experience possessed by the systems engineers whomonitor the performance of the instruments and subsystems and can quickly recognize anon-nominal condition or engineering data that is trending abnormally. This expertiseextends to the intimate knowledge these engineers have of Observatory performancecharacteristics, which assists their exploration of new control modes, and subsystemmanagement techniques. This further extends to the extensive experience the team has withunique, high-fidelity models of spacecraft and mode performance that they have personallydeveloped which enable them to tune parameters and refine control algorithms quickly andeffectively. All of this knowledge and experience contributes to the high productivityand creativity that have sustained HST for two decades. This, in turn, contributes to theunparalleled success of the HST mission and provides a platform from which future workcan successfully be conducted. The experience and understanding gained from past,technologically challenging HST-specific work are critical to a high quality scienceoperation, and even more critical to meeting the HST Program goals and challenges thatlie ahead to achieve maximum observatory life and science operations. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform theeffort in writing to the identified point of contact no later than 5:00pm EDT on May 11,2010. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose ofdetermining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Adetermination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and opencompetition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretionof the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. 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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