NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 214.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDER (ATMS) SOL RFP5-00653-433 DUE 092899 POC Chris D. Whyte, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)286-3230, Fax (301)286-1699, Email cwhyte@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov -- John Baniszewski, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-9841, Fax (301)286-1699, Email John.D.Baniszewski.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#RFP5-00653-433. E-MAIL: Chris D. Whyte, cwhyte@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/GSFC is releasing the Formulation Phase RFP for the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) on August 26, 1999. Offers are due no later than September 28, 1999, at 3:30 p.m. EDT, in the Bid Room located at NASA/GSFC, Code 213, Bldg. 17, Room S142, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD, 20771. The RFP will be posted on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service Web site at http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/procure.htm. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) plans to conduct a progressive competition to define, design, develop, and produce the ATMS instrument. This effort will be a full and open competition and will be acquired in two distinct phases -- Formulation Phase, requiring preliminary system design of the ATMS and Implementation Phase, requiring the detailed design, fabrication and delivery of the ATMS. Two Formulation Phase awards are anticipated leading to a single Implementation Phase award. A progressive competition strategy will be used with down-selection of sources between the Formulation Phase and Implementation Phase. To be eligible for the Formulation Phase award, offerors must demonstrate the experience and capability, or ability to acquire the capability, to perform both the Formulation and Implementation Phases. The competition for Implementation Phase will build on the results of the Formulation Phase, and the award criteria for the Implementation Phase will include successful completion of specified the Formulation Phase requirements. Accordingly, NASA anticipates that only the Formulation Phase contractors will be capable of successfully competing for the Implementation Phase. NASA will synopsize the Implementation Phase competition in accordance with FAR 5.201 and 5.203, but does not plan to issue a new, formal solicitation. Instead, proposals will be requested from the Formulation Phase contractors by a letter that will include detailed proposal preparation instructions and evaluation criteria. Although a new, formal solicitation will not be issued, any responsible source may submit a proposal for the Implementation Phase, and these proposals will be considered by the agency. Prospective offerors for the Implementation Phase, other than the Formulation Phase contractors will be provided all the material furnished to the preceding phase contractors necessary to submit a proposal. To be considered for the Implementation Phase award, offerors must demonstrate a design maturity equivalent to that of the Formulation Phase contractors, such demonstration to include any Formulation Phase deliverables upon which the Implementation Phase award may be based. Failure to fully and completely demonstrate the appropriate level of design maturity may render the proposal unacceptable with no further consideration for contract award. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) is a tri-agency (NOAA, DOD, NASA) program which converges current civilian and military polar-orbiting weather satellite systems into a single polar-orbiting system. NPOESS is managed by the tri-agency Integrated Program Office (IPO). The NASA role in the NPOESS program is technology development in support of NPOESS. In this connection, NASA has entered into an agreement with the IPO whereby NASA will develop the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) instrument in direct support of the system requirements of NPOESS. The ATMS instrument is a passive microwave sounder instrument that provides observations which, when combined with observations from an infrared sounder, provides global atmospheric temperature, moisture, and pressure profiles. The ATMS instrument will fly on the NPOESS spacecraft. Contract management will be transferred from NASA to the IPO after delivery of the Protoflight model. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Note "B". The standard industrial classification (SIC) code for this acquisition is 3761. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Hard copies may be obtained from the identified point of contact; however, the closing date for the hard copy received shall be the same as the solicitation, inclusive of any amendments, released on the Internet. Any referenced numbered notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html We look forward to receiving your contract proposal. If you have any questions, you may contact the contract specialist, Chris Whyte at 301-286-3230. Posted 08/27/99 (D-SN373187). (0239)

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