NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 214.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771

H -- OFFICE OF SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE MISSION CONTRACT DUE 100599 POC James Debelius, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)286-0055, Fax (301)286-0341, Email James.M.Debelius.1@gsfc.nasa.gov -- Thomas Russell, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-2885, Fax (301)286-0341, Email Thomas.S.Russell.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#SS5-02035-502. E-MAIL: James Debelius, James.M.Debelius.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/GSFC is hereby soliciting information for potential sources for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Office of Systems Safety and Mission Assurance (OSSMA) Mission Contract. Businesses are requested to submit detailed information demonstrating their understanding of the work requirements identified below as well as their qualifications, capabilities, and experience and past performance history for such work. This information must be detailed because the purpose of this synopsis is to identify businesses capable of performing this work. Responses must include the following: name and address of firm, size of business; average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees; ownership; whether they are large, small, small disadvantaged, 8(a), HUBZone, and/or woman-owned; number of years in business; affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); list of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact -- address and phone number). OSSMA has the broad responsibility and general authority to assure that the goals for mission success and reliability are met for GSFC's projects, including spacecraft systems, launch vehicle systems, operational ground systems and scientific instruments including both conventional satellites and Shuttle payloads managed by GSFC. To augment and supplement the capability of the OSSMA, the Contractor shall provide such off-site and on-site support as required. The Contractor shall furnish qualified personnel, facilities and equipment not otherwise furnished by the Government necessary to support the OSSMA. The Contractor shall be ISO 9000 compliant in all operations related to the performance of this function. The Contractor shall have written procedures that establish the bases of compliance with the standards of ISO 9000. These procedures shall be coordinated with Code 300 to ensure compatibility with GSFC ISO 9000 standards. This contract shall be performed under the guidelines of Performance Based Contracting (PBC). Metrics shall be established for all service areas in coordination with the COTR and the Technical Managers. All work shall be identified on work orders issued by the Technical Managers identified in the contract. The Contractor shall conduct all work in accordance with applicable GSFC and Directorate level Procedure/Guideline(s). The work supporting the OSSMA mission is broken out among the following eight service areas. 1. Mission Assurance Engineering Services: The Contractor shall assist the Assurance Management Office's (AMO's) designated representative for GSFC managed projects (System Assurance Manager or SAM) in formulating the assurance requirements necessary for the development of reliable space systems. The Contractor shall assist in ensuring that project personnel and GSFC contractors meet the quality assuranceprovisions of the GSFC Quality Management System (QMS) and NASA handbooks and specifications. In accordance with the requirements of the applicable work orders, the work shall include but not be limited to on-site, near-site, in-plant, launch range, and on-orbit operations support for review, audit, and inspection of procedures, hardware, software, integration and test activities, and on-orbit performance 2. NASA Manufacturing Technology Transfer Center Services: The Contractor shall provide facilities and personnel to instruct agency and agency contractors regarding the NASA-STD-8739.3-.4-.5 series of workmanship requirements. The Contractor, in conjunction with GSFC and agency personnel, shall coordinate all training criteria with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) training center to ensure a unified NASA training curriculum. The Contractor shall have expert knowledge of polymeric applications for flight hardware as well as analyses of printed circuit board coupons. 3. Test Equipment Calibration and Repair (TECR) Services: The Contractor shall repair and calibrate test equipment such as: oscilloscopes; signal generators; frequency synthesizers; digital voltmeters; spectrum analyzers; pressure gauges; torque wrenches; scales; load sensors; and power supplies. The Contractor shall operate and maintain a Transportable Calibration System for in-place verification of test equipment performance. The Contractor shall prepare and maintain calibration procedures for test equipment covered by TECR operations. 4. Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) Services: The Contractor shall have the technical ability to do focused research in new software development technologies, then apply the results to NASA projects to improve the utility of the developed products. The Contractor shall be thoroughly familiar with all aspects of software engineering and industry to identify new concepts and applications that may impact SATC research and work. 5. System Safety Services: The Contractor shall provide such services as: system safety engineering planning; payload technical support; payload safety documentation development; payload safety requirement compliance and implementation; and payload safety coordination and communication. These services are provided to payload organizations that must perform a system safety program and includes a broad spectrum of analyses and activities inherent in such a program. 6. Reliability Services: The Contractor shall be thoroughly familiar with the complexities of space flight missions and the problems presented by the launch and space environments in order to provide services such as, but not limited to: establish mission success criteria; evaluate mission operations scenarios and workarounds; develop reliability program activities; perform reliability predictions; perform failure mode and effects analyses and failure mode, effects criticality analyses; perform fault tree analysis; perform sneak analysis; perform load-strength analysis; perform derating stress analysis; perform risk assessment;and perform human reliability analysis. 7. Continuous Risk Management (CRM) Services: The Contractor shall have the technical ability to perform Continuous Risk Management (CRM) training and perform risk assessments. The Contractor shall have some familiarity with the complexities of space flight missions and the problems presented by the launch and space environments. 8. Information Technology Systems Development, Maintenance, and Data Entry Services: The Contractor shall provide monthly status of planned and actual expenditures and schedule all training activities and provide monthly schedule reflecting the latest status of scheduled training. It is anticipated that this contract will have a basic period of performance for 5 years. A cost-plus-incentive-fee contract type is anticipated. Work orders shall be utilized to specify individual services that the Contractor must provide. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in the CBD and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these cites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. 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. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. The Government reserves the right to consider a small business or 8(a) set-aside based on responses hereto. All responses shall be submitted to James M. Debelius at the Contracting Office Address identified above no later than October 5, 1999. In responding reference SS5-02035-502. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html Posted 09/20/99 (D-SN381904). (0263)

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