SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- EXPLORERS MISSION PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY
- Notice Date
- 5/24/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- 2010-101
- Archive Date
- 5/24/2011
- Point of Contact
- Dawn M. Fountain, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-3318, 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 proposal opportunity is for a NASA Announcement of Opportunity for anExplorers Mission in the Summer/Fall of 2010. The draft AO is expected in the spring of2010. NASA GSFC is seeking a partner to provide a spacecraft with related spacecraftsubsystems for a potential proposal. The potential GSFC Explorer mission is designed tomeet the science goals of the Explorer Program, as currently understood. GSFC mission teams will be submitting proposals to the Explorers AO currently scheduledfor release in mid to late calendar year 2010.The AO is a two-step process, with thefirst proposal response being primarily focused on the merit and feasibility of thescience objectives of the proposed mission. The initial submissions will then bedown-selected, and the resultant subset of proposals will be funded to perform Phase Aconcept studies. During Phase A, proposals will be expanded and refined to detail theentire end-to-end mission life cycle concept, with greater attention to engineeringimplementation. While the AO schedule cannot be specified at this time, the following isestimated based on earlier AOs and related missions:AO releaseJuly-October 2010Proposals dueJanuary 2011 (target)Phase A selectionJuly/Aug 2011Phase A concept study reportSummer 2012 (target)Mission selectionLate 2012 (target)Launch2016 for first missionLate 2018 for additional mission (if selected)This partnership opportunity is being issued to select a teaming partner to help preparethe GSFC Explorer candidate mission concept for the initial proposal submittal; to assistin the Phase A concept study if the mission is down-selected; and to provide a flightqualified spacecraft system should the mission be selected for flight. The major flightsystem GSFC is interested in finding partners for is a low cost low earth orbitingspacecraft. If the potential partner also has a mission operations capability that mightpresent a cost-effective option to the project, the potential partner may include themission operations effort in his or her proposal. Instruments are not part of this POD.Potential respondents are asked to contact the GSFC Explorer team by 5 PM EDT on June 18,2010 with a Notice Of Interest (intentionally not called a notice of intent). ThisNotice of Interest does not create an obligation to respond to the POD, but allows theGSFC Explorer team to disseminate additional details on the mission parameters and toprovide answers to questions from potential partners. Notice of Interest respondents willreceive a document containing additional details on the proposed mission, which can beused to facilitate a focused response to the partnership opportunity. These details areproprietary and competition sensitive and are not to be shared outside the teamsnecessary to prepare a full response. There will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners for the portion of thispartnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the initial submission to theExplorer AO. Limited funding will be available for Phase A and full funding will beavailable for subsequent phases should the mission be competitively selected for thoseadditional phases.
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