SOLICITATION NOTICE
18 -- PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ST-9 SOLAR SAIL MISSION SPACECRAFT BUS
- Notice Date
- 11/4/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 336414
— Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NASA-GSFC-ST-9-POD-11-4-05
- Response Due
- 11/21/2005
- Archive Date
- 11/4/2006
- Description
- The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center?s (GSFC) ST-9 Solar Sail mission is one of five competing technology validation concepts currently in a one year concept definition study sponsored by NASA?s New Millennium Program (NMP). One of these concepts will be chosen by NMP in October 2006 to proceed into Phase-B. The fundamental objective of the Solar Sail mission is to design, build, test, and fly a solar sail that provides predictable, measurable, and steerable propulsive thrust using solar radiation pressure. Corollary objectives include validating structural, thermal, attitude control, thrust vector prediction and control, and environmental effects models that can then be used for the development of much larger solar sails for use on NASA?s future strategic missions. In addition, the materials, tools, processes, and procedures used in the construction, deployment, and operation of the solar sail will also be validated. The ST-9 Solar Sail Team will be submitting a concept definition Study Report (Mission Proposal) to the NMP Office in September 2006 to compete for the ST-9 technology validation flight opportunity. The overall schedule is shown below. Phase-A Start: August 23, 2005 S/C Bus POD Release: October 31, 2005 POD Responses Due: November 19, 2005 Partner Selection: December 10, 2005 Phase-A Study Report Due: September 2006 Mission Selection by NMP: October 2006 Launch Readiness: September 2010 End of operations: Launch + 90 to 180 days This partnership opportunity is being issued to select a teaming partner to: 1. Develop an ST-9 Solar Sail spacecraft bus design for inclusion in the Phase-A Study Report/Proposal to NMP. 2. Participate with the ST-9 Solar Sail Team in establishing and defining the spacecraft bus interfaces to other elements of the mission system. 3. Develop plans and schedules for the spacecraft bus development. 4. Prepare technical resource budgets for the spacecraft bus elements consistent with overall launch mass constraints (for both launch vehicle scenarios discussed later). 5. Develop high fidelity cost estimates for design and production of the spacecraft bus and support for the bus-to-payload element integration, test, and launch operations. 6. Optional: Provide mission operations services and associated cost estimate. For this partnership opportunity dealing with the development of the spacecraft bus design for the Phase-A Study Report submission to NMP, the offeror is expected to provide the above support at no cost to the Government. If the ST-9 Solar Sail Mission is selected to proceed into Formulation Refinement (Phase B), a contract award may be issued to the bus provider for Phase B and beyond. 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 Julie.A.Janus@nasa.gov by November 10, 2005. Please indicate who is the point of contact to which 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 6:00 pm EST on November 21, 2005. An electronic PDF document may be sent at this time to John.T.VanSant@nasa.gov Companies that reasonably demonstrate capabilities across the full scope of the requirement may be invited to present an oral presentation. Notification will be given by close of business November 23, 2005. Oral presentations or teleconference will be conducted at GSFC on November 30, 2005. 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 Adobe Acrobat (PDF) 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 site 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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