SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP AND TEAMBUILDING EXPEDITION TRAINING
- Notice Date
- 6/22/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BJ
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ11396132R
- Response Due
- 6/30/2011
- Archive Date
- 6/22/2012
- Point of Contact
- Cameron L. Johnson, Contract Specialist, Phone 281-792-7871, Fax 281-483-4066, Email cameron.l.johnson@nasa.gov - Scott Stephens, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-792-7521, Fax 281-483-7890, Email scott.stephens-1@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Cameron L. Johnson
(cameron.l.johnson@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/JSC has a requirement for a twelve day customized outdoor team building andsupervised leadership expedition training course to provide Astronaut Candidates withleadership, teamwork, and self-care experience in a remote expedition environment. Thepurpose is to expose crew members to and have them practice the leadership, teamwork, andexpedition behaviors that have been determined to be most desirable in spaceflight.NASA/JSC intends to purchase the training from the National Outdoor Leadership School(NOLS) on a sole source basis.NOLS offers teamwork and leadership training in achallenging outdoor environment and has the desired level of knowledge, expertise, andexperience to conduct expedition and outdoor leadership training. NOLS offers thecombination of remoteness and focused leadership skill development that provides distinctlearning opportunities with synergies for teams facing extended space travel.NOLS is currently the only known source with the ability to meet NASAs expeditionrequirements, while providing a customized, entirely outdoor curriculum designedspecifically for spaceflight crew members. Statutory authority for proceeding with thisacquisition under Other Than Full and Open Competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) (1) (asimplemented by FAR 6.302-1).The Government intends 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 not later than 4:30 PM local time onJune 30, 2011. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purposeof determining 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.All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The installation Ombudsman is MelanieSaunders,(281) 483-0490.
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