NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

H -- SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE MISSION SERVICES FOR THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER SOL 8-1-0-QS-C5853 DUE 041000 POC David. G. Morgan, Contracting Officer, Phone (256) 961-2105, Fax (256) 544-8353, Email david.morgan@msfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=62#8-1-0-QS- C5853. E-MAIL: David. G. Morgan, david.morgan@msfc.nasa.gov. The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) Mission Services. These services include providing the necessary management, personnel, equipment and supplies (not otherwise provided by the Government) required to provide mission services associated with the planning, implementation and direction of safety, reliability, maintainability and quality assurance (SRM&QA) programs for the MSFC. The effort includes surveillance of MSFC in-house and contracted design, manufacturing and testing activities, for both hardware and software, to assess compliance with NASA/MSFC SRM&QA policies, requirements and controls. The Conractor selected shall assure that management assessment information is provided in a timely manner to the MSFC S&MA Office to support the decision-making process regarding open problems, hazards and risks pertaining to accomplishing MSFC's mission. Required tasks shall be performed principally in the MSFC locale; however, occasional travel to contractor facilities, NASA Headquarters, and other NASA installations may be required. Further, the Contractor may be requested to provide personnel stationed at remote sites to support MSFC S&MA surveillance and inspection. NOTE: It has been determined that this acquisition involves a significant potential conflict of interest -- The nature of this potential conflict is that the S&MA Contractor, acting in a support role to the S&MA Office, will be a primary source of SRM&QA analyses and will assist MSFC in the evaluation of performance of MSFC program prime contractors and major subcontractors -- The S&MA Contractor will develop SRM&QA plans and procedures; analyze MSFC program contractors' plans, procedures and practices; and perform assessments of those prime contractor and major subcontractor plans, procedures and practices to assure that acceptable SRM&QA requirements exist on all MSFC programs -- Therefore, the S&MA Contractor will occupy a highly influential and responsible position and should not be in a position to make decisions favoring its own capabilities at the prime or major subcontract level -- In order to impartially execute these tasks, the S&MA Contractor or its parent, subsidiary, or other affiliated or successor entity shall not, for the life of this contract, have or obtain a prime contract or subcontract for the delivery, to MSFC, of flight hardware, software or mission integration -- Furthermore, the S&MA Contractor shall not, for the life of this contract, engage any MSFC flight hardware, software or mission integration program prime contractor or subcontractor as a subcontractor under this contract. The Government contemplates the award of either a Cost Plus Award Fee/Incentive Fee (CPAF/IF) or a Cost Plus Award Fee (CPAF) contract with a one year base period and four one-year priced options. The provisions and clauses in the RFP are those in effect through FAC 97-15. TheGovernment does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. This procurement is a total small business set-aside. See Note 1. The SIC Code and Size Standard are 8731 and 1,000, respectively. The DPAS rating for this procurement is DO-C9. A draft version of the RFP shall be released for industry comment on or about February 4, 2000, with comments due back on or about February 11, 2000. The anticipated release date of RFP 8-1-0-QS-C5853 is on or about March 8, 2000 with an anticipated proposal due date of on or about April 10, 2000. All qualified responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. An ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) format and will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/MSFC Business Opportunities page is http://nais.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=62 . 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). Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html Posted 01/13/00 (D-SN415673). (0013)

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