SOLICITATION NOTICE
Y -- MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY - MANUFACTURING SUPPORT AND FACILITY OPERATIONSCONTRACT EXTENSION
- Notice Date
- 12/5/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall SpaceFlight Center, AL 35812
- ZIP Code
- 35812
- Solicitation Number
- NNM09AA20C-R
- Response Due
- 12/19/2013
- Archive Date
- 12/5/2014
- Point of Contact
- James S. Casper, Contracting Officer, Phone 256-544-3294, Fax 256-544-4400, Email james.s.casper@nasa.gov - Tyler C. Cochran, Contracting Officer, Phone 256-544-1737, Fax 256-544-3223, Email Tyler.C.Cochran@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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James S. Casper
(james.s.casper@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/MSFC has a requirement to extend the current Manufacturing Support and Facility Operations Contract (MSFOC), number NNM09AA20C, for the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) for one year. MSFOC provides mission-focused integrated production and facility operation support to NASA Projects and other on-site users and tenants. This wide range of support services includes: program management, safety, health and emergency management, integrated manufacturing support, maintenance, site services, site operations, logistics operations services, sustaining engineering, environmental services, construction, and Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) services. As both a manufacturing facility for human space flight hardware and an operational installation for users and tenants, MAF's manufacturing support and facility operations are required 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Award of this requirement to a source other than NNM09AA20C's incumbent contractor, Jacobs Technology, Inc., (hereinafter 'Jacobs'), will result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling NASA requirements. This one-year contract extension will allow for the continuation and stability of MSFOC's services at MAF, pending the placement of a competitive follow-on acquisition. A follow-on contracting activity, entitled 'Synergy Achieving Consolidated Operations and Maintenance (SACOM)' is currently in the early stages of acquisition planning.SACOM's intent is to take advantage of consolidation opportunities between service requirements presently being supported under MSFOC, Stennis Space Center (SSC)'s Facility Operating Services Contract (FOSC), and SSC's Test Operations Contract (TOC). The consolidation of these contracts will serve as the follow-on re-competition for all three contracts, with SACOM currently projected to be awarded in mid Fiscal Year 2015. As such, a sizable gap currently exists without contract coverage for MAF's mission services and IDIQ activities given the current MSFOC expiration date. Any lapse in the MSFOC service provision during the period of the SACOM competition activity and subsequent performance commencement by the selected contractor would cause irreparable harm to the SLS Program. The one-year MSFOC extension described herein reconciles this gap in contract coverage necessary to maintain MAF's basic site services (i.e., mission services), as well as provides for continuation of IDIQ services for on-site users and tenants. The recommendation to extend NNM09AA20C for one year is made pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1, which implements the authority for 10 USC 2304(c) (1) for the acquisition of supplies and services from only one responsible source and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Competition is impractical for the following reasons: 1. In light of the above, which establishes the need for stop-gap coverage during the bridge period of the follow-on SACOM competition, a sole-source one-year contract extension is necessary to provide uninterrupted, mission-critical support to MSFC programs and projects at MAF. In accordance with FAR Subpart 6.302-1(a) (2) (iii), MSFOC services are deemed to be available only from the original source for the continued provision of highly specialized services when it is likely that award to any other source would result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling agency requirements.NASA is currently developing the Space Launch System (SLS) with Core Stage and Orion Crew Capsule manufacturing conducted at MAF. The importance of this manufacturing effort to the overall success of SLS places MAF on the critical path for maintaining the Programs congressionally-mandated first launch in 2017. 2. As noted earlier, Jacobs is responsible for maintaining and operating the facility and equipment used by the prime contractors responsible for SLS and Orion hardware manufacturing.Jacobs has responsibility for approximately thirty (30) ongoing SLS-related CoF tasks (e.g., Task Order (TO) #374, 'Modifications for SLS Component Final Assembly Building 103'; TO #281, 'SLS Modifications to MAF Building 131 (Cell N) for Thermal Protection Systems (TPS), Area 63'; TO #282, 'SLS Modifications to MAF Building 131 (Cell P) for External Clean and Prime, Area 62'; TO #285, 'SLS Modifications to MAF Building 451 for LH2 Proof Testing, Area 30'; and TO #369, 'SLS Modifications for Vehicle and Component Transport / Access'). These SLS-related CoF projects are part of the critical path for maintaining the programs congressionally-mandated first launch in 2017. In addition, Jacobs is also responsible for fourteen (14) ongoing general CoF tasks that include TO #303 for 'MAF Building 103 - Repair Roof damaged by Hurricane Isaac', TO #370 for 'Replace Forced Main Sanitary Piping in MAF Building 103', and TO #373 to 'Replace MAF's Transformer West Master Substation'. These noted CoF task orders are critical milestone projects that require significant management, design, engineering, and coordination between the facility contractor and NASA projects. Any break in this effort would have a severely negative impact on NASAs ability to meet overall program completion dates. 3. It is not practical to compete this work and then transition to SACOM for such a short period of time. The potential benefits of competition would not offset the administrative burden and expense of conducting two competitions simultaneously or the potential disruption of services resulting from multiple and possibly parallel contracts transiting for the same work in less than a one-year period. Furthermore, Jacobs has proven itself to be capable of managing and executing both the O&M aspect of MAF and CoF activities over the period of MSFOC to date.In performing MSFOC, Jacobs has developed a unique base of technical knowledge and experience, including the required historical knowledge of the critical NASA programs and projects at MAF. It is estimated the time and cost to quickly bring another facilities operations and maintenance (O&M) contractor up to par with Jacobs for this one-year period would be in excess of a standard 45 to 60-day phase-in period, likely requiring upwards of 90 days to complete. The original 60-day MSFOC transition from the predecessor MAF Operations and Maintenance (MOM) portion of the Space Shuttle's External Tank (ET) contract was sufficient as a result of the previous contractor maintaining control of all critical processes for the manufacturing of remaining ETs. For this transition, it is estimated 90 days would be required based on the incoming contractor having to immediately take up O&M for all SLS-related critical processes, as well as complete critical CoF milestone projects. As such, NASA would likely not be able to offset the majority of the new contractor's acclimation cost due to the relatively brief timeframe of this extension. Additionally, there is no reasonable alternative to modifying the current contract, such that MSFOC would be novated to another O&M contractor (outside of competition) for immediate coverage of MAF's O&M requirements for this temporary period of time. In addition to the aforementionedextended acclimation time and likely unrecoverable additional phase-in cost, it would be neither feasible nor reasonable to make award to any contractor other than the incumbent, particularly given the SACOM contract will result in an anticipated competitive award within the twelve (12) month extension period requested herein, as well that NASA does not have supporting rationale to make a sole-source novation of MSFOC to any other competent facilities O&M contractor. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local time on December 19, 2013. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note 'B'. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/omb.html Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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