SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Community Announcement for Earth Venture Instrument-4 Solicitation
- Notice Date
- 7/27/2016
- 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, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNH12ZDA006O
- Point of Contact
- Dr. Thomas Wagner, Phone: 202-358-4682
- E-Mail Address
-
thomas.wagner@nasa.gov
(thomas.wagner@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) releases this Community Announcement soliciting proposals for the Earth Venture Instrument-4 (EVI-4) program. EVI-4 solicits Earth science-focused mission-of-opportunity proposals to develop spaceflight instruments to be installed on a NASA-provided platform or to develop CubeSat-based missions. Investigations may target any Earth science questions or issues that advance the goal of NASA's 2014 Strategic Plan (http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/science-strategy/) to "advance knowledge of Earth as a system to meet the challenges of environmental change, and to improve life on our planet". EVI-4 is part of the Earth Venture (EV) portfolio under the Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program (http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/smd-programs/earth-system-science-pathfinder/). The EV portfolio consists of regularly solicited, competitively selected, cost and schedule constrained Earth science investigations, as recommended by the National Research Council's decadal survey in Earth science titled Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond (The National Academies Press, 2007) and available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11820. The EVI-4 solicitation is the fourth solicitation in the EVI series and is expected to have few updates from the EVI-3 solicitation (https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId=%7B7DCA9805-97A7-2677-800B-666FB9606BF0%7D&path=open). It is released as a Program Element Appendix (PEA) of the Second Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-2) (http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId={12429F12-CBF0-EA11-C7C1-4DF5F4B5BA0F}&path=open). Updates from the EVI-3 solicitation that are found in the EVI-4 solicitation are documented in the EVI-4 Table of Updates, posted under "Program Specific Documents" in the EVI-4 Library (http://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVI-4/evi-4_library.html). Proposers may review the EVI-4 solicitation along with the EVI-4 Table of Updates. The PI-Managed portion of the Mission Cost Cap for EVI-4 investigations is dependent on the instrument class, as described in the solicitation. For EVI-4 investigations based on Class D instruments or CubeSats, the Cost Cap is $33M in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 dollars. For EVI-4 investigations based on Class C instruments, the Cost Cap is $102M in FY 2020 dollars. NASA may select some combination of Class C and Class D investigations based on funding availability at the time of selection. The timelines for instrument and CubeSat developments are as follows: Class C instrument investigations: Phases A through C will span the years FY 2017-FY 2022, culminating in delivery of an instrument for integration onto a NASA-determined platform by August 31, 2022. Class D instrument investigations: Phases A through C will span the years FY 2017-FY 2021, culminating in delivery of an instrument for integration onto a NASA-determined platform by August 31, 2021. CubeSat(s): Phases A through D will span the years FY 2017-FY 2021, culminating in delivery of a CubeSat(s) that can be deployed by a NASA-determined launch vehicle by August 31, 2021. Proposals that include more rapid instrument development timelines may be selected, provided the required budget phasing can be accommodated by NASA. Participation will be open to all categories of U.S. and non-U.S. organizations, including educational institutions, industry, nonprofit organizations, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, NASA Centers, and other Government agencies. For EVI-4, NASA plans to complete the selection process in a single step, as described in the solicitation. The schedule for the solicitation is: Release of Community Announcement: July 27, 2016 Preproposal Web/Teleconference: August 18, 2016 Mandatory Notices of Intent (NOIs) Due: September 1, 2016 Proposals Due: November 18, 2016 Selection: Late 2017 Further information will be posted on the EVI-4 Acquisition Homepage at http://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVI-4/ as that information becomes available. Questions or comments about this solicitation may be addressed by E-mail to the Earth Venture Instrument-4 Program Scientist: Dr. Thomas Wagner, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Tel: 202-358-4682; E-mail: thomas.wagner@nasa.gov; FAX 202-358-2770 Responses to all inquiries will be answered by E-mail and also posted to the Questions and Answers (Q&As) location of the EVI-4 Acquisition Homepage at http://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVI-4/. Anonymity of persons/institutions who submit questions will be preserved.
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