SPECIAL NOTICE
V -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source
- Notice Date
- 7/1/2022 2:13:56 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 481212
— Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation
- Contracting Office
- NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FL 32899 USA
- ZIP Code
- 32899
- Solicitation Number
- 80KSC022NOI01
- Response Due
- 7/11/2022 1:00:00 PM
- Point of Contact
- KSC-VADR, Jason R Siewert, Phone: 3218617067
- E-Mail Address
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ksc-vadr@mail.nasa.gov, jason.r.siewert@nasa.gov
(ksc-vadr@mail.nasa.gov, jason.r.siewert@nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA/Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has a requirement in support of the Launch Services Program (LSP) for a small-lift launch vehicle capable of delivering dedicated payloads under the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) Launch Services contract for missions requiring launch by 2024. The VADR contract is a multiple award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract through which KSC is establishing an industrial base of launch vehicles for a variety of NASA and NASA-sponsored payloads with requirements to reach a variety of orbits including escape.� Within the contract, launch vehicle capabilities for dedicated launch services can be subdivided into the following three capability groupings:� below 500 kg, 500-1000 kg, and above 1,000 kg.� Under each grouping, NASA has a need to have multiple providers capable of providing a cost-effective dedicated launch service to meet spacecraft requirements over the next several years.� For the 500-1,000 kg grouping, there are only two known providers expected to have a launch vehicle in place to support missions through 2024; however, only one of these providers is on the VADR contract.� Accordingly, NASA LSP intends to enter sole source negotiations to establish a VADR IDIQ contract with Firefly Black, LLC (Firefly) in order to satisfy the need for multiple providers for spacecraft in the 500-1,000 kg grouping.� Firefly is the only launch vehicle provider in this grouping that has completed development and conducted its first test launch of their Alpha Launch Vehicle. The need for multiple providers in this grouping is further compounded by the fact that all of the launch vehicles in this range are under development and a single failure, with only one provider on contract, will detract from NASA�s ability to successfully fly existing and near future missions.� The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(3), as implemented by FAR 6.302-3, Industrial mobilization; engineering, developmental, or research capability; or expert services (10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(3)). The ability to use this authority is derived from the National Space Policy established December 9, 2020.� One of the underlying principles in the policy is that �The United States remains committed to encouraging and facilitating the continued growth of a domestic commercial space sector that is globally competitive, supports national interests, and advances United States leadership in the generation of new markets and innovation-driven entrepreneurship.�� Accordingly, the policy lays out the goal of promoting and incentivizing private industry to facilitate the domestic markets for United States space services and it provides the foundational activity of strengthening and securing the United States industrial base.� In addition, the United States Space Priorities Framework established in December of 2021 provides key foundational policies to enable the United States to fulfill the principles and goals.� Among the priorities in the framework, is the charge for the United States to �strengthen the security of the U.S. space industrial base� through resilient supply chains. Finally, this approach is consistent with U.S.C. Title 51, Sec. 102, Policy, which establishes that the United States �sustain a mixed fleet by utilizing commercial expendable launch vehicle services to the fullest extent practicable.� Therefore, this action is needed to follow established policies to expand the launch vehicle supply chain available under the VADR contract promoting the acquisition of secure, reliable, cost-effective, and responsive commercial launch services. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.� � � � Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort electronically via email to the Contract Officer, Jason Siewert at ksc-vadr@mail.nasa.gov not later than 4 PM on July 11,2022.� Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this acquisition on a competitive basis.� A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html
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