SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR EV -2 SPACECRAFT
- Notice Date
- 5/13/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- GBN101-Thienel
- Archive Date
- 5/13/2012
- 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 Partnership Opportunity Document (POD) is in association with an upcoming NASAAnnouncement of Opportunity for an Earth Venture-2 (EV-2) mission competition which isexpected on June 30, 2011. NASA GSFC is seeking a partner for a spacecraft, relatedspacecraft subsystems, launch and mission operations and data transmission for apotential mission concept proposal. The potential GSFC EV-2 mission is designed to meetthe science goals of the EV-2 Program, as currently understood. GSFC mission teams will be submitting proposals to the EV-2 AO currently scheduled forrelease on June 30, 2011, with proposals due in early fall 2011. The AO is a single-stepcompetitive process. The selected mission will proceed directly into Phase A.While theAO schedule cannot be fully specified at this time, the following is estimated based onprior AOs and related missions:AO releaseJune 30, 2011Proposals dueSeptember 30, 2011 (TBR)SelectionMarch/April 2012Launch2016 (no later than early 2017)This POD is being issued to select a teaming partner to help prepare the GSFC EV-2candidate mission concept for proposal development and submittal and to provide aspacecraft, accommodation services, launch vehicle, mission operations center andsupport, and data transmission capabilities should the mission be selected for flight. 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 (proposal)to the EV-2 AO. Full funding will be available for subsequent phases should the candidatemission concept be competitively selected for those additional phasesPotential respondents are asked to contact the GSFC EV-2 team by 5 PM EDT on Tuesday, May17, 2011 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 EV-2 Mission team to provide answers to questions from potential partners.Respondents may send questions to the GSFC EV-2 Team at the E-mail address listed below. All questions and answers will be made available to all those who respond to the Noticeof Interest. The source of the questions shall be held confidential. Questions andanswers that contain information unique to a respondents proprietary approach will notbe shared if they are identified as such. There are no plans to provide additionaldetails on the proposed mission beyond those already included in Section 3.0 of this POD.The Notice of Interest is only to ensure that any questions and answers are provided toall interested parties.Notice of Interest shall be sent to julie.thienel@nasa.gov via email with Notice ofInterest in the subject line, a simple sentence or two expressing interest and an emailand address to send further information. For purposes of this partnership opportunity,the GSFC EV-2 Team contact is Julie Thienel.Final presentation packages must be received by 5 PM EDT on May 20, 2011. 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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