SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- POD INSTRUMENT FRONT END SYSTEM
- Notice Date
- 4/24/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.I, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- 101460210S
- Response Due
- 5/7/2014
- Archive Date
- 4/24/2015
- Point of Contact
- Dean S Patterson, Procurement Manager, Phone 301-286-8085, Fax 000-000-0000, Email Dean.S.Patterson@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Dean S Patterson
(Dean.S.Patterson@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This partnership opportunity is for the development, integration, test, delivery and sustaining engineering of a spaceflight level Radio Frequency (R/F) front end for science instrument to support the NASA New Frontiers, Europa and Discovery Announcement of Opportunities (AO).NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is seeking a partner to provide this R/F front end for a science mission proposal to this opportunity.NASAs GSFC Discovery, New Frontiers, and Europa mission proposals are designed to meet the science goals of the Discovery program (and hence those outlined in the extant National Research Council Decadal Survey for Planetary Exploration ( http://solars ystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/download-detail.cfm?DL_ID=742 ), as currently understood. As in the recent past, the AO is a two-step process, with the first proposal response primarily focused on the scientific merit and technical feasibility of the proposed mission and its associated scientific investigation. The initial submissions will then be down-selected after formal peer review, and the resultant subset of proposals will be funded to perform Phase A mission concept studies. During Phase A, proposals will be expanded and refined to detail the entire end-to-end mission life cycle concept, with greater attention to engineering implementation, cost, and schedule. This partnership opportunity is issued to formally select a teaming partner to help prepare NASAs GSFC Discovery, New Frontiers, and Europa candidate instrument concepts for the initial proposal submittal; to assist in the Phase A concept studies if the mission is down-selected; and to provide a flight-qualified R/F front end should the mission be selected for flight by NASA Headquarters. For the portion of this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the initial submission (proposal) to the Discovery, New Frontiers, or Europa AO, there will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners. Funding will be available for Phase A and subsequent phases should the mission be competitively selected for those additional phases. NASAs GSFC reserves the option to not select any teaming partners under this POD offering on the basis of materials received. Responses will be treated as proprietary information and controlled as such by GSFC for the U.S. Government. The respondents shall deliver the requested information in a standard presentation format. Final presentation packages (electronic copy only) must be received by 5 pm EST, May 7, 2014. Please send an email with the file to Keith Walyus (Keith.D.Walyus@nasa.gov). All respondents will have an opportunity to make oral presentations of their proposed capabilities/concepts.All respondents that intend to make presentations must provide written or electronic notice by 5:00 pm EST on May 21, 2014. Notice may be provided by e-mail to Keith Walyus. (Keith.D.Walyus@nasa.gov). Oral presentations will be conducted via telecom approximately two weeks after the response due date. Respondents will have one hour to present their response. This solicitation/synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for the information solicited. An ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note B. The documents for this partnership opportunity will be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) format and will reside on a 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 is http://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 the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments, if any. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.h tml.
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