SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SOLAR IMAGING RADIO ARRAY (SIRA)
- Notice Date
- 5/25/2004
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NASA-SNOTE-040525-001
- Archive Date
- 5/25/2005
- Description
- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is seeking an industry partnership for the Solar Imaging Radio Array (SIRA)Mission to provide all elements of the mission except the SIRA instruments and the data processing and analysis, which are provided by the PI team. (Upon selection of the partner, we will conduct a joint analysis to determine how aspects of the mission design effort will be divided between NASA and the spacecraft partner.) The SIRA mission team seeks industrial participation and contributions in the following technical areas: ?Mission design, system engineering, and integration and test ?Spacecraft and carrier bus ?Ground systems and mission operations One partner proposal will be chosen to address all technical areas. Proposers recommending a teaming relationship to provide all SIRA systems for the mission must combine all technical areas in a single response to the POD. There will be no exchange of funds between NASA and the selected partner for the Step 1 phase of this MIDEX proposal cycle. Up to one million dollars funding will be available for Phase A concept studies according to the budget developed in the Step 1 phase. If SIRA is selected for a Phase A concept study, the partner will be funded according to the budget developed in the Step 1 proposal. Questions about this POD should be directed to the Principal Investigator, Robert MacDowall (Code 695, GSFC). All replies will be shared among all proposers (see section 9.0). Robert MacDowall may be contacted by phone at 301-286-2608 or by email: Robert.Macdowall@nasa.gov. Since we would like to make the questions and answers from all offerors for this POD available to all who wish to be considered for this partnership, it is important for us to know who is intending to respond. All questions and answers will be sent to those who express a desire to respond, while the source of the questions shall be held confidential. The Notice of Intent should be sent as an email to Robert.Macdowall@nasa.gov by Friday, June 11, 2004. Please indicate who is the point of contact to whom any responses to questions should be directed. Your organization may still respond to this POD if you do not send a notice of intent. The response for this POD is due by 3:00 pm EDT on Friday, June 18, 2004. An electronic PDF document may be sent at this time to Robert MacDowall (Robert.Macdowall@nasa.gov). (The GSFC email servers seem to be able to handle multi-MB files without problem; however, we encourage you to send a separate email confirmation of your submittal, also to Robert MacDowall.) All companies that reasonably demonstrate capabilities across the full scope of the requirement will be invited to present an oral presentation. Notification will be given by Wednesday, June 23, 2004. Oral presentations will be conducted at GSFC, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 29 - 30, 2004. Presentations will be scheduled as two (2) hour blocks. Speakers will have up to one hour to present and the second hour will be used for questions and answers. This solicitation/synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for the information solicited. An ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". The documents for this partnership opportunity 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 WWW address, or URL, of the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=51. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor this cite for the release of the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments, if any. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html.
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