SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY DOCUMENT WITH NASAS GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER FORDETECTORS
- Notice Date
- 11/13/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 336419
— Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NASA-GSFC-DISCOVERY-POD-DETECTORS
- Response Due
- 11/26/2014
- Archive Date
- 11/13/2015
- Point of Contact
- Michael Adams, Engineer, Phone 301-286-2010, Fax 301-286-0341, Email michael.l.adams@nasa.gov - Julie A. Janus, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-4931, Fax 301-286-0341, Email Julie.A.Janus@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Michael Adams
(michael.l.adams@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Partnership Opportunity Document (POD) with NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for Detectors dated November 2014 General Information Contracting Office Address NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771 1.0 Introduction and Scope This partnership opportunity is for a NASA Planetary Mission Opportunity in 2014. NASA/GSFC is seeking partners for spaceflight mission development for potential proposals to this opportunity. GSFC mission teams will be submitting proposals to the Discovery announcement currently released. This opportunity will be two-step processes, with the first proposal response being 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 life cycle concept, with greater attention to engineering implementation, cost, and schedule. Information on the Discovery AO can be found Science Office for Mission Assessments Discovery 2014 Announcement of Opportunity ( http://discovery.larc.nasa.gov/index.htm l ). The time frame for the solicitation is intended to be: Release of draft AO......................................July 2, 2014 Release of final AO......................................November 5, 2014 Preproposal conference...............................~3 weeks after final AO release Proposals due..............................................February 5, 2015 Selection for competitive Phase A studies...May 2015 (target) Concept study reports due...........................April 2016 (target) Down-selection............................................October 2016 (target) Launch readiness date.................................NLT December 31, 2021 This partnership opportunity is being issued to interested and qualified teaming partners to help prepare the NASA/GSFC concept for proposal submittal and to provide a flight qualified instrument subsystem should the instruments be selected for flight. This partnership opportunity is for the development, integration, test and delivery of detectors. For this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the initial submission, there will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners. Funding will be available for Phase A and subsequent phases should the investigation be approved to continue through the mission-defined gates for flight.NASA/GSFC reserves the option to not select any teaming partners under this POD offering on the basis of materials received. 2.0 Technical Description Desired spaceflight system - GSFC is interested in finding a partner to provide spaceflight-qualified Detectors. No other subsystems are part of this POD. Detailed information on the Detector specifications will be provided to those responding with a Notice of Interest. A Notice of Interest (intentionally not called a notice of intent) does not obligate an organization to provide a POD response. 3.0 Pre-selection Support 3.1 Initial Proposal Support SOW: It is expected that the selected respondent will provide support using their own resources (no exchange of funds) to help develop and write the mission proposal in response to the solicitations in the area of the detector design and mission implementation. This will involve meeting with the scientists and the overall mission engineering team: (a) to help define the end-to-end performance and interface requirements; (b) to identify study topics; and (c) to predict performance. This will include cost estimation for each and all mission phases. The period of performance for this interval is expected to last until submission of the initial proposal. 3.2 Phase A Study and Phase A Proposal Support SOW: If the mission is selected for a Phase A study, the proposal team will receive funding to conduct a Phase A study and submit a detailed Concept Study Report (CSR) to NASA. The respondent providing the detectors will be allocated a portion of this total to continue proposal support during the CSR duration. The respondent will be expected to contribute to designing, documenting, and costing the detectors for inclusion in the final Concept Study Report. The period of performance for this interval is detailed in the above timelines. POD Response Instructions for Pre-Selection Support The respondent shall: 1)Demonstrate understanding and experience in the design, fabrication, integration and testing of detectors: Identify the means of addressing system requirements that your team assumes are likely to exist and tasks the detectors are intended for, Highlight particularly critical or challenging areas for the design of the detectors, Provide a technical summary/description of the proposed hardware including relevant heritage with cost information. 2)Identify any recommended potential study topics related to the detectors, including radiation tolerance. 3)Indicate the level of resources to be allocated for the proposal phase. Discuss skills that will be provided, the appropriate level of conceptual design, and analyses and trade studies to be performed. 4) Identify pertinent missions for which the respondent has previously provided support for proposal writing in the area of detector design, fabrication, integration and testing for the technical specifications listed. 4.0 Development Support SOW: Following CSR submittal, if the mission is selected for development and launch, the respondent will be responsible for the design, development, and test of the detectors. The respondent is responsible for: identifying the detector requirements and providing all aspects of the detectors (either directly, or through purchasing or teaming arrangements).The period of performance for this interval is expected to last approximately 46-66 months. The date will depend upon selection timelines and budget allocations. POD Response Instructions for Development Support The respondent shall: 1)Describe the level of experience with similar detectors and level of experience of supporting personnel. 2)Identify available design and modeling capabilities required to support development of the detectors. 3)Identify fabrication and testing facilities that will be required to support development and test of the detectors. 4)Identify a level of sustaining engineering to assist in potential anomaly resolution during instrument and observatory environmental testing 5)Identify which missions the respondent has successfully supported (relevant to this POD and its technology) and provide a customer reference point of contact. Provide information on recent similar detectors designed and delivered, and describe how that experience is applicable to this mission. This shall include basic information on scope of work, how well the delivered detectors met the cost and schedule estimates, and technical requirements. 6)Provide a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimate and timeline for the scope of the design, fabrication, and testing of the detectors. This ROM will not be considered a binding commitment, but will serve as a consideration during the partnership evaluation. Due to the rigid cost cap for these opportunities, the cost range for the detectors will be an important consideration. Cost savings for providing both sets of filters will receive strong consideration. The respondent is invited to comment on the reasonableness of the placeholder cost. 7)List ideas and methods of keeping costs low and the risk of cost growth low, including how to utilize existing open market hardware to minimize costs and provide a more robust system. 5.0 General Instructions for POD Response Potential respondents are asked to contact the GSFC team with a Notice Of Interest (intentionally not called a notice of intent).This Notice of Interest does not create an obligation to respond to the POD, but allows the GSFC team to disseminate additional details to provide answers to questions from potential partners. Notice of Interest respondents will receive a document containing additional details on the Detector specifications, which can be used to facilitate a focused response to the partnership opportunity. These details are competition sensitive and are not to be shared outside the teams necessary to prepare a full response. After receipt of the mission document, respondents may send questions to the GSFC point of contact (POC) listed below.All questions and answers will be made available to all those who respond to the Notice of Interest. The source of the questions shall be held confidential. Questions and answers that contain information unique to a respondents proprietary approach will not be shared if they are identified as such. Notice of Interest shall be sent to the POC listed below via email with Notice of Interest in the subject line, a simple sentence or two expressing interest and an email address to send further information. For purposes of this partnership opportunity, the contact is Michael Adams, Michael.L.Adams@nasa.gov, 301.286.2010. Responses to the POD shall: 1)Be in a presentation format that shall not exceed 20 pages. The font size for the text shall be no smaller than 12 point. 2)Address all requirements noted in Sections 3.0 through 6.0 of this document. Responses will be treated as proprietary information and controlled as such by NASAs GSFC for the US Government. The respondents shall deliver the requested information in a standard presentation format. Final presentation packages (electronic copy only, Portable Document Format {PDF} recommended) must be received by 5 pm EDT, November 26, 2014. Presentations are to be delivered to Michael Adams at the above listed email address.
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