SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- DUAL-CHAMBER INFLATABLE SUITLOCK DEMONSTRATION
- Notice Date
- 10/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ11ZBH001L
- Response Due
- 11/15/2010
- Archive Date
- 10/15/2011
- Point of Contact
- Christian C. Gaspard, Contract Specialist, Phone 281-483-0034, Fax 281-244-5331, Email christian.c.gaspard@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Christian C. Gaspard
(christian.c.gaspard@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Request for Information (RFI) only and does not constitute a commitment,implied or otherwise, that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) willtake procurement action in this matter. Further, neither NASA nor the Government will beresponsible for any cost incurred in furnishing this information.The purpose of this RFI is to identify qualified parties interested in partnering withNASA in the research and development of its Habitat Demonstration Unit (HDU) Projectthrough a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement. Responders to this RFI should haveexperience in one or more of the following fields: (1) inflatable technologies; (2)airlock technologies; (3) extravehicular suit technology.The HDU Project is an intelligent habitat operational prototype system for validatingtechnologies, operations, hardware, and software for sustainable, off-Earth livingquarters, workspaces, and laboratories for next-generation human exploration spacemissions. In order to reduce risk in the development of a Deep Space Habitat (DSH) thatwill be required to expand human exploration of asteroids, Lagrange points, the moon,Mars, and other destinations, habitat technologies must be validated in a variety ofmission scenarios and environments. The HDU Project employs a multi-center collaborativeteam that pulls together technologies, resources, people, and skills to contribute to aunique rapid prototype testing capability using a portable habitat testbed that can beset up in extreme environments to test integrated performance of operational scenarios,its systems, technologies, and interactions with other elements.The HDU Project has identified a need for a hybrid inflatable and hard shell suitlockthat can be used for planetary surface and deep space human exploration missions. Throughongoing analog studies at Desert Research and Technologies Studies (DRaTS) and in NASAsPrototyping Testbed Facility, it has been determined that a compact, deployable suitlockunit is needed to accommodate advanced Extravehicular Activity (EVA) egress and ingressoperations for various environments with only minor modifications. The HDU Projectintends to construct a medium-fidelity prototype suitlock unit that will be evaluated inanalog field testing, in conjunction with the Deep Space Habitat (DSH) hardware. No solicitation exists; therefore do not request a copy of the solicitation.Contact: Questions concerning this RFI shall be submitted via email to Kriss J. Kennedy atkriss.j.kennedy@nasa.gov or by phone at 281-483-6629. Electronic submission of theresponses in Microsoft Office format or Adobe Acrobat versions 6 - 8 (.pdf) is due closeof business November 15, 2010, to kriss.j.kennedy@nasa.gov. Questions and responses shallreference this RFI. Please limit responses to 20 pages or less.
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