SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- CALIPSO Sustaining Engineering Support Services
- Notice Date
- 10/16/2020 12:59:25 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER HAMPTON VA 23681 USA
- ZIP Code
- 23681
- Response Due
- 11/1/2020 12:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 11/16/2020
- Point of Contact
- Ceseley Dunbar
- E-Mail Address
-
ceseley.dunbar@nasa.gov
(ceseley.dunbar@nasa.gov)
- Description
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center (LaRC) intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. NASA LaRC has a requirement to support post-launch sustaining and non-sustaining engineering support services for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite operations. The CALIPSO satellite was successfully launched on April 28, 2006 and is providing new insight into the role that cloud and atmospheric aerosols (airborne particles) play in regulating Earth�s weather, climate, and air quality. CALIPSO is a joint U.S. (NASA) and French (Centre National d�Etudes Spatiales/CNES) satellite mission. The mission is well into a period of extended on-orbit operations. CALIPSO combines an active lidar instrument with passive infrared and visible imagers to probe the vertical structure and properties of thin clouds and aerosols over the globe. The proposed contract will provide highly specialized post-launch sustaining and non-sustaining engineering services, including flight software maintenance, anomaly resolution and other satellite payload system support, reception of CALIPSO's X-band data transmission and the processing, archival, and delivery of Level 0 data to the LaRC Atmospheric Science Data Center, and other services necessary for the successful CALIPSO operations and end of mission close-out.� Because of BATC�s unique history of producing the CALIPSO satellite payload and providing highly specialized post-launch sustaining and non-sustaining engineering services supporting the payload and ground systems, market research to locate another qualified vendor would not be productive. This CALIPSO post-launch engineering services contract will rely extensively upon the knowledge and expertise BATC has gained over many years and could not reasonably be performed by another source. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in beta.sam.gov. It is the potential vendor�s responsibility to monitor this site for the release of any solicitation and synopsis. Any questions you may have are to be submitted in writing, via email, to be used for consideration in the development of the requirements. 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.
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- Record
- SN05829501-F 20201018/201016230134 (samdaily.us)
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