SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR EV POINTING SYSTEM CONTROL
- Notice Date
- 4/26/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- EV101-GBN
- Archive Date
- 4/26/2012
- Point of Contact
- Dawn M. Fountain, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-3318, Fax 301-286-1773, Email Dawn.M.Fountain@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Dawn M. Fountain
(Dawn.M.Fountain@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA GSFC is seeking a partner to provide the pointing control system for anadir-viewing instrument on the International Space Station (ISS). The potential GSFCEV-2 mission is designed to meet the science goals of the EV-2 program, as currentlyunderstood. (Reference draft AO: http://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EV-2/ )GSFC mission teams will be submitting proposals to the EV-2 AO currently scheduled forrelease in late spring 2011. The AO is a one-step process, with the proposal responsebeing primarily focused on the merit and feasibility of the science objectives of theproposed mission. The submissions will be selected, and the resultant proposal will befunded for formulation and implementation Phases A-F. While the AO schedule cannot bespecified at this time, the following is estimated based on earlier AOs and relatedmissions:AO release~June 2011Proposals due~September 2011Mission selectionEarly 2012 (target)Launch2015 (target)OperationsLaunch plus 3 years, possible 2 year extensionThis partnership opportunity is being issued to select a partner to help prepare the GSFCEV-2 candidate mission concept for proposal submittal and to provide an end-to-endmission system solution should the mission be selected for flight. GSFC is interested ina partner to provide a pointing control system. The potential partner must havesufficient relevant experience, including ISS and pointing control system expertise, aswell as proven success in delivery of flight hardware.The respondent must submit aproposal which describes the technical and programmatic approach to providing a pointingcontrol system which accommodates instrument requirements.There will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners for the portion of thispartnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the submission to the EV-2 AO.Potential respondents are asked to contact the GSFC EV-2 team by 12 PM EDT on or beforeMay 3, 2011 with a Notice Of Interest (intentionally not called a notice of intent). This Notice of Interest does not create an obligation to respond to the POD, but allowsthe GSFC EV-2 team to disseminate additional details on the mission parameters and toprovide answers to questions from potential partners. All Notice of Interest respondentsreceive a document containing additional details on the proposed mission, which can beused to facilitate a focused response to the partnership opportunity. These details areproprietary and competition sensitive and are not to be shared beyond the team membersnecessary to prepare a full response. After receipt of the mission document, respondents may send questions to the GSFC EV-2Team at the E-mail address listed below. All questions and answers will be madeavailable to all those who respond to the Notice of Interest. The source of thequestions shall be held confidential. Questions and answers that contain informationunique to a respondents proprietary approach will not be shared if they are identifiedas such. Notice of Interest shall be sent to Julia.W.Breed@nasa.gov via email with Notice ofInterest in the subject line, a simple sentence or two expressing interest and an emailand address to send further information. For purposes of this partnership opportunity,the GSFC EV-2 Team contact is Julia Breed, Julia.W.Breed@nasa.gov, 301-286-8665.This solicitation/synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government norwill the Government pay for the information solicited.An ombudsman has been appointed.See Internet Note B.The documents for this partnership opportunity will be inMicrosoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) format and will reside ona 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 ishttp://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 thePartnership Opportunity Document and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will beresponsible for downloading their own copy of the Partnership Opportunity Document andamendments, if any. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL:http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html.
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