NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 215, Greenbelt, MD 20771

A -- HYBRID DEPLOYABLE BOOM STUDY FOR THE MAGNETOSPHERIC MULTI-SCALE (MMS) SATELLITE SOL 460-65037-920 DUE 112399 POC Mary E. McKaig, Contract Specialist for Simplified Acquisition, Phone (301) 286-4240, Fax (301) 286-1720, Email Mary.E.McKaig.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#460-65037-920. E-MAIL: Mary E. McKaig, Mary.E.McKaig.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for a Hybrid Deployable Boom Study for the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) Satellite. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP). NASA/GSFC intends to award the order to the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley (UCB/SSL). The electric field booms for which the study is sought relies on a brand new concept conceived by scientists/engineers at the UCB/SSL and specifically recommended for study for the MMS Project. UCB/SSL is the only organization that has developed, built, and flown booms on satellites that have included active electric field sensors such as is baselined for the MMS mission. Their involvement spans over 20 years of spaceflight experience, including electric field booms that successfully extended spherical sensors on the ISEE-A (NASA), CRRES (US Air Force/NASA), POLAR (NASA), FAST (NASA), CLUSTER (ESA/NASA), S3-2 (US Air Force), S3-3 (US Air Force), Viking (Sweden), and Freja (Sweden) satellites. They invented and developed the stacer electric field boom which has been flown on numerous satellites and which is anticipated will form the root of the spin plane boom being studied here. They are also the only organization that has developed and successfully flown on satellites spin plane wire boom assemblies, with numerous wires that feed pre-amps within deployable spheres, such is baselined for MMS. The electric field booms to be studied will use the boom hardware properties and flight experience from previous electric field booms flown on the satellites mentioned above which were developed and built by the University of California. In this manner, the boom study will take advantage of existing designs, engineering properties (including stability considerations, boom resonances, deployment characteristics, mass, etc.), and flight experience and thus the UCB team will provide a highly advanced, mature concept and trade study for the hybrid boom which will be of immediate use to NASA and to the MMS engineering/science team. This feasibility study will make use of previous UCB boom designs and hardware that was used in past programs, such as the NASA/Polar satellite and which are proprietary to UCB. Because the MMS science study is complete and an AO is expected in the future and because the results of this study will significantly impact the design of the spacecraft, including which instruments can be flown, which science objectives can be met, etc., it is important that an experienced group provide specific, advanced analysis in a timely manner. Only UCB has the expertise and knowledge to provide the detailed, advanced study for this particular hybrid boom configuration and for this particular mission (MMS) in a timely manner. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. See Note 22. Interested firms have 15 days from the publication of this synopsis to submit in writing to the identified point of contact, their qualifications/capabilities. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Responses received after the 15 days or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered. A determination by the Government to not compete this proposed effort on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications ARE NOT acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html Posted 11/02/99 (D-SN397374). (0306)

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