SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- NASA Financial Support Services (NFSS)
- Notice Date
- 9/24/2021 11:31:23 AM
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541219
— Other Accounting Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER HUNTSVILLE AL 35812 USA
- ZIP Code
- 35812
- Solicitation Number
- 80MSFC21R0015
- Archive Date
- 03/15/2023
- Point of Contact
- Ryan D. Hardy, Kathy Cooper
- E-Mail Address
-
MSFC-NFSSProcurement@mail.nasa.gov, kathy.cooper@nasa.gov
(MSFC-NFSSProcurement@mail.nasa.gov, kathy.cooper@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- SBA Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
- Description
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) for the NASA Financial Support Services (NFSS) acquisition has been released. This DRFP is issued as an acquisition-planning instrument and a means of soliciting industry comments for use in developing the final Request for Proposal (RFP).� This DRFP is not a solicitation and NASA is not requesting proposals.� The issuance of this DRFP does not commit NASA to pay any proposal preparation costs, or obligate NASA to procure or contract for these services, nor should it be construed as authorization to proceed with, or be paid for any charges incurred by, performing any of the work described herein. The purpose of this DRFP is to assist the Government in developing the highest quality final RFP.� In accordance with NASA Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Supplement (NFS) 1815.201, Exchanges with Industry Before Receipt of Proposals, interested parties are invited to comment on all aspects of the DRFP, including the requirements, schedules, proposal instructions, evaluation approaches, any perceived safety, occupational health, security (including information technology security), environmental, export control, and/or other programmatic risk issues associated with performance of the work.� Interested parties are also encouraged to comment on the Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) structure, any unique terms and conditions, and/or the ability to effectively price the effort across multiple geographic areas. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide financial support services and related services for multiple NASA Centers.� The NFSS contractor will provide all necessary management, personnel, travel, and training (not otherwise provided by the Government) necessary to perform these services.� The anticipated contract will be performed onsite at the following NASA Centers: Ames Research Center (ARC), Mountain View, CA; Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) Edwards Air Force Base; CA, Glenn Research Center (GRC), Cleveland, OH; Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, TX; Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Merritt Island, FL; MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and Stennis Space Center (SSC), Bay St. Louis, MS; and any other NASA Center, and offsite at the contractor�s facilities. The NFSS acquisition is anticipated to be a total small business set-aside.�� This competitive acquisition is anticipated to result in a commercial service, single-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with firm-fixed-price (FFP) and cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) task orders.� The preponderance of work under this IDIQ contract will be FFP.� Contract execution is anticipated to utilize two task orders, one for Phase-In and one for contract administration.� The contract is anticipated to have an effective IDIQ maximum ordering period of eight years from the contract effective date.� The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541219, �Other Accounting Services,� and the small business size standard is $22M.� The cognizant contracting office responsible for this procurement is Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Interested parties are requested to review the DRFP and submit written comments and questions via email to Ryan D. Hardy, Contracting Officer, at MSFC-NFSSProcurement@mail.nasa.gov, as specified in Section L, MSFC 52.205-90, Designated Point of Contact, by 6:00 p.m. Central Time on September 27, 2021.� Telephone inquiries will not be accepted.� Responses to comments or questions, which will be considered in formulation of the final RFP, will be at the discretion of the Government.� In addition, prospective offerors are requested to notify the individual specified in Section L, MSFC 52.205-90, Designated Point of Contact, by email of their intent to submit an offer. A virtual industry day briefing was conducted in accordance with Section L, MSFC 52.210-91, Virtual Industry Day Meeting. �Virtual industry day presentation slides and a list of registered participants have been uploaded. The Government anticipates soliciting offers utilizing FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items; FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation; and NFS 1815, Contracting by Negotiation.� The envisioned procurement is to be conducted by a source evaluation board in accordance with procedures prescribed by FAR and NFS.� Upon issuance of a final RFP, all responsible sources may submit an offer in response to the solicitation which will be considered by the Agency. NASA has determined that this acquisition may give rise to a potential organizational conflict of interest (OCI).� Potential offerors should refer to NFS clause 1852.209-71, Limitation of Future Contracting, for a description of the potential conflict(s) and any restrictions on future contracting, along with Section L provision MSFC 52.209-93, Notice of Potential Organizational Conflicts of Interest. NFS clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable.� Information for the Ombudsman can be found at: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/Procurement-Ombuds-Comp-Advocate-Listing.pdf It is each interested party/potential offeror's responsibility to monitor sam.gov for release of the final RFP and any amendments thereto.� Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation in its entirety.
- Web Link
-
SAM.gov Permalink
(https://beta.sam.gov/opp/ce87ea48bcad4136bc7555a64e037bbb/view)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
- Zip Code: 35812
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 35812
- Record
- SN06143761-F 20210926/210925200937 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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