SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- JDEM TELESCOPE CONCEPT STUDY
- Notice Date
- 12/15/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNG09276614R
- Response Due
- 1/5/2009
- Archive Date
- 12/15/2009
- Point of Contact
- Amy A. Aqueche, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-286-6687, Fax 301-286-1773, - Carlos R McKenzie, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-8085, Fax 301-286-1670, />
- E-Mail Address
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Amy.A.Aqueche@nasa.gov, Carlos.R.McKenzie@nasa.gov<br
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) intends to issue a Request for Proposal(RFP) for the development of a conceptual telescope design to meet the requirements ofthe Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM). The JDEM is a jointly funded and developed missionby NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) and is a space-based, medium aperture, widefield, optical telescope with visible and near-infrared (NIR) imaging and spectroscopicinstrumentation. JDEM will survey the sky to accurately measure the magnitude andredshift of a large sample of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), spectroscopic redshifts of alarge, uniform sample of galaxies for Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) studies, andaccurate shape parameters and photometric redshift measurements of a very large sample ofgalaxies for Weak Lensing (WL) studies. The Telescope Assembly portion of theobservatory is expected to be an afocal Three Mirror Anastigmat (TMA) with 3 tertiarymirrors that will provide the optical train to the Government developed JDEM instruments(4 focal planes and a fine guidance sensor). The JDEM telescope is expected to have aprimary mirror size of ~1.5 meters in diameter and operate at a temperature of 253Kelvin. The JDEM observatory is expected to be launched aboard a NASA provided EELV inlate 2015 to an orbit around the Sun-Earth second Lagrange point (L2) and be operated fora minimum of 5 years. NASA contemplates evaluating and selecting multiple offers(approximately 3) based on the proposals as submitted and providing each of the studyparticipants a not to exceed cost of $300K for a three month study. This studyactivity is intended to determine feasible telescope concepts based on the preliminaryJDEM science requirements, assess the critical cost and schedule drivers, and developcost and schedule estimates for the design, build and test of the JDEM telescope. Requirements for a collimated beam at the instruments pupils will be provided and aconceptual telescope design will be developed in the course of this study. The studywill also request results of trade studies performed in the course of the study, arecommendation on the level of integrated modeling required for the proposed concept, adescription of the telescope integration and test flow along with a recommended opticaltest approach at temperature. Additionally, the study will request an alternativeconcept for the entire optical system be developed from the primary mirror through theinstrument optics given a set of requirements on the instrument focal planes. It isanticipated that in the near future the information relative to this concept study, willbe posted to the JDEM website at http://jdem.gsfc.nasa.gov.The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.See Note26.All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.The anticipated release date of the RFP is on or about Monday, January 5, 2009 with ananticipated offer due date of on or about Thursday, February 5, 2009.An ombudsman has been appointed.The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over theInternet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may beaccessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFCBusiness Opportunities home page ishttp://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51 Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It isthe offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of thesolicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible fordownloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referencednotes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.All contractual technical questions must be submitted in writing (e-mail or fax). Telephone questions will not be accepted.
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