SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- RFI: NASGRO PHASE 2 FAD DEVELOPMENT
- Notice Date
- 3/24/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-0001
- ZIP Code
- 94035-0001
- Solicitation Number
- NNA545742L-ALP
- Response Due
- 3/31/2015
- Archive Date
- 3/24/2016
- Point of Contact
- Lam V. Pham, Contract Specialist, Phone 650-604-6516, Fax 650-604-0912, Email lam.v.pham@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Lam V. Pham
(lam.v.pham@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/ARC is hereby soliciting information about potential sources for NASGRO Phase 2 FAD Development. 1.Background NASAs Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) and Ames Research Centers Pressure Systems Manager require the ability to evaluate the fitness for service and remaining safe life of ground based pressure vessels and pressurized systems (including non-code layered vessels) that experience cyclic pressure and thermal loadings with induced fatigue damage and crack growth using the NASGRO fracture mechanics analysis software. NASGRO was initially developed in the 1980s by Lockheed Martin Services under contract to NASA to address space flight program fracture control requirements, but the features required for current assessment of ground based pressure systems were generally not included in that development. In 2000, a Space Act Agreement (SAA) was signed with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the collaborative development and commercialization NASGRO to ensure its ongoing support through the establishment of a consortium of industry users with SwRI serving as the managing partner and principal developer. At the same time, the NASGRO copyright was assigned and transferred to SwRI, who retains it to the present. Under the terms of the SAA, NASA retains a perpetual royalty-free license for use of NASGRO for NASA programs and projects.NASA is not a consortium member, however, and any NASA-specific development tasks must be funded by the Agency. NASA JSC continues funding the development of space flight related fracture control tasks, and NASA OSMA began incremental funding of tasks related to fitness for service assessment of ground based pressure vessels in 2014 (Phase 1 of this effort). The items requested herein are Phase 2 development tasks, and it is anticipated that additional phases will be undertaken in the future as funds become available. NASAs policy as expressed in NPD 8710.5D and pressure system safety requirements of NASA STD-8719.17A require that each NASA Center demonstrate the safety, fitness for service, and remaining safe life of potentially hazardous ground based pressure vessels and systems. NASA has many such systems that are both vital to NASAs mission as well as presenting significant potential hazard to the staff and facilities. Most are subjected cyclic fatigue loadings, and many were fabricated from undocumented, non-Code materials and processes.Standard ASME Code rule-based techniques are often inadequate for addressing the in-service conditions and features of these vessels without excessive conservatisms, and the specialized capabilities of fracture mechanics and cyclic crack growth is needed to provide meaningful remaining safe life assessments given significant defects due to original welding processes or induced through operational loadings. In addition, the applicable industry Codes and Standards that are mandated by OSHA (e.g., ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, API-579 Fitness for Service Standard) all now require the application of the failure assessment diagram (FAD) approach and its underlying analytical methodologies. NASGRO has lagged behind in incorporation of this approach principally because the consortium members and JSC interests are aerospace rather than ground based. Thus, NASGRO requires directed engineering directed development to fully incorporate FAD features and techniques and apply it to all needed stress intensity factor models in order to fully facilitate NASGROs application to institutional systems. A master list of FAD development tasks was agreed upon in NASA in 2013, and these phases of work incrementally address the major topics identified in that list. Collectively they are identified as NASGRO FAD development tasks. This document is the Phase 2 statement of work for NASGRO FAD development. There are four specific subtasks tasks identified from the master list, each of which requires fracture mechanics engineering support, software coding, verification and validation testing, reporting, and project management. 2.Objective As specified in Section 3 below, the vendor shall perform Phase 2 engineering and software development tasks as a follow-on to previously completed Phase 1 work to incorporate and enhance NASGROs FAD capabilities as related to assessment of NASAs institutional ground based pressure vessels and systems. This work requires completing development tasks, documenting that completion through issuance of Demonstrated Functionality Reports (DFRs), and including the software updates in the next alpha release of NASGRO for user community assessment. One task requires developing a software design document for future implementation of ASME FFS-1 / API 579 Level 3 FAD options on all relevant NASGRO crack models. 3.Scope & Specifications Perform Phase 2 NASGRO FAD development by completing the tasks listed below. All software development work for these tasks shall comply with section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, subpart B, sections 1194.21 (Software Applications and Operating Systems) for code included in formal releases of NASGRO. a.Task 2(b) Proper handling of secondary stresses (remaining NASFLA GUI tasks). Provide a Demonstrated Functionality Report (DFR) as the completion milestone and include the updated programming in the next NASGRO alpha release, v. 8.1. b.Task 2(c) Proper handling of secondary stresses (FAD crack case transitions for post transition geometry). Provide a Demonstrated Functionality Report (DFR) as the completion milestone and include the updated programming in the next NASGRO alpha release, v. 8.1. c.Task 3(a) Develop the ASME FFS-1 / API-579 Level 3 FAD approach as a parallel option to the existing NASGRO FITNET FAD capability and issue the software design document as the completion milestone. Task 4(b) Implement FAD capabilities for existing NASGRO pressure vessel stress intensify factor models that have limit load solutions already available (TC07, TC08, SC06 and TC06). Provide a Demonstrated Functionality Report (DFR) as the completion milestone and include the updated programming in the next NASGRO alpha release, v. 8.1. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC) is seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including Small, Small Disadvantaged (SDB), 8(a), Woman-owned (WOSB), Veteran Owned (VOSB), Service Disabled Veteran Owned (SD-VOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI) for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for this procurement. The Government reserves the right to consider a Small, 8(a), Woman-owned (WOSB), Service Disabled Veteran (SD-VOSB), or HUBZone business set-aside based on responses hereto. 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. Vendors having the capabilities necessary to meet or exceed the stated requirements are invited to submit appropriate documentation, literature, brochures, and references. Responses must include the following: name, address, and website address of firm, size of business; number of employees; ownership; whether they are large, or any category of small business listed above, number of years in business; affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); list of customers for similar systems during the past three years (include contract numbers, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact - email and phone number). Please advise if the requirement is considered to be a commercial or commercial-type product. A commercial item is defined in FAR 2.101. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. All responses shall be submitted to Mr. Lam Pham ( lam.v.pham@nasa.gov ) no later than Tuesday, 03/31/2015. Please reference NNA545742L-ALP in any response.
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