SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- HUMAN HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE CONTRACT
- Notice Date
- 5/19/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ14399614L
- Response Due
- 6/2/2014
- Archive Date
- 5/19/2015
- Point of Contact
- Perry L. Mueller, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-483-7158, Fax 281-483-7890, Email perry.l.mueller@nasa.gov - J. R. Carpentier, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-244-7254, Fax 281-244-5331, Email john.r.carpentier@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Perry L. Mueller
(perry.l.mueller@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) is planning a follow-on competition to the contract requirements for the current Bioastronautics Contract (BC), NAS9-02078. The overall scope of BC includes the following: a. fundamental and applied biomedical and space cell biology research and development; b. operational space medicine; c. operation of the Human Health and Performance Directorate (HHPD) laboratories; d. the application of space environmental factors, human factors, human system integration and biomedical engineering; e. design, development, test, and evaluation of biomedical flight hardware; and f. integration of payloads, experiments, and hardware with the International Space Station. g. Flight Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Human Test Support, and Occupational Health. The anticipated contract name for the follow-on is the Human Health and Performance Contract (HHPC). The following areas may assist in implementing the above scope and are anticipated to be major functions of the HHPC, but are not limited to: 1. Mission and Projects Management, 2. Business and Institutional Management including the implementation of innovation and strategy; support to the NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation and coordination of the NASA Human Health and Performance Center (NHHPC) and 3. Future human space flight development and operations. HHPD, its constituent divisions of Habitability and Environmental Factors, Human Adaptation and Countermeasures, Space Medicine, and the Human Research Program (HRP), have the primary responsibility for implementing the above scope. The flight hardware function is a shared responsibility with the Engineering Directorate. The external HHPD website is http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jo hnson/slsd/index.html. The HHPC North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541712 and the number of employees is 500. The current BC is a Cost-Plus-Award-Fee (CPAF) hybrid, consisting of Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), and Level of Effort (LOE). The intent of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit comments from industry regarding acquisition strategies. Industry, both Large and Small Businesses, are invited to review Attachment 1, Request for Information on Potential Procurement Approach, and provide feedback on the specific areas requested in the Attachment, as applicable. Small Businesses are invited to review Attachment 2, Small Business Sources Sought Request, and provide feedback as applicable. The draft HHPC Statement of Work (SOW) is located at the procurement website: http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/HHPC/. This document is for information and planning purposes only and to allow industry the opportunity to comment, as well as promote competition. Confidential, proprietary, competition sensitive, or business information shall not be submitted in response to this RFI as the information submitted in response to this RFI may be used in developing a future contract strategy. Responses to the RFI shall include the company name, address, and point of contact. The Government intends to release the company names, addresses, and points of contact of all respondents unless specifically requested not to do so by the respondent. This information will be provided on the HHPC procurement website in an interested parties list. Any communications in reference to this RFI shall cite the RFI number in the subject line and be directed to the point of contact identified in the RFI. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Government is under no obligation to issue a solicitation or to award any contract on the basis of this RFI. The Government will not pay for any information solicited. No evaluation letters and/or results will be issued to the respondents. You are requested to provide electronic responses (limited to 20 pages using no less than 12 point Times New Roman font) via e-mail to P. Lamar Mueller at Perry.L.Mueller@nasa.gov and J.R. Carpentier at John.R.Carpentier@nasa.gov. Your response is requested by 4:00 p.m. CDT on June 2, 2014. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. The Government intends to review the responses submitted by Industry. This data will not be shared outside the Government, however, the Government may use this data to develop future requirements. Therefore, any data that is submitted as part of a companys response that is marked Proprietary will not be reviewed and will be returned to the respondent.
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