SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC)
- Notice Date
- 6/1/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.P, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNG16572342L
- Archive Date
- 6/29/2016
- Point of Contact
- Nina Albritton, Phone: 301-286-1915
- E-Mail Address
-
nina.a.albritton@nasa.gov
(nina.a.albritton@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has a requirement in support of NASA GSFC's Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO). SPO has hosted an annual contest since 2010 called the OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC). The OPSPARC contest is open to the U.S. public and is targeted towards children in grades 3 through 12. The organization(s) administering OPSPARC will need to collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 for this contest, and as a result will be required to conduct the contest in a manner that is Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) compliant. The participants of the challenge will create and submit original videos and electronic posters, called Glogs, highlighting their ideas for spinoff applications of NASA technologies selected by the SPO. This annual contest seeks to educate the public about NASA's programs, spinoff technologies benefitting the public, and the companies that have successfully commercialized NASA technology. The Government requires a uniquely qualified business with the knowledge, resources, and tools necessary to initiate and manage responsible and effective online youth and parent relationships by adhering to COPPA, and best practices when dealing with community sites or features that may have both children and adults present. NASA/GSFC intends to continue to contract services with Small Business Privacy Vaults Online, Inc. (Privo). Privo has provided for previous OPSPARC contests and has been identified as the only source available with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Safe Harbor designation to fulfill the requirement of the SPO. In order to ensure COPPA compliance, and thereby protect NASA from possible litigation, the Safe Harbor designation is a required capability for the proposed procurement. The COPPA guidelines are too labor intensive to implement properly with the internal personnel resources available to the SPO. Furthermore, no NASA internal expertise or policy guidance regarding implementing COPPA compliance currently exists. It would therefore create a significant legal risk to GSFC if the SPO were to attempt to implement COPPA requirements for OPSPARC without external expert guidance. As an organization external to the federal government, Privo will be better able to interact with sponsor organizations that are external to the federal government than SPO. The Government intends to acquire services utilizing the applicable statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition, 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c) (1), as cited under FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source, and no other supplies or services will satisfy Agency requirements. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort to Ms. Nina Albritton via email at nina.a.albritton@nasa.gov not later than 4:30 p.m. eastern standard time on June 14, 2016. Only emailed responses will be considered. Such capabilities and qualifications statements will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, United States
- Zip Code: 20771
- Zip Code: 20771
- Record
- SN04134490-W 20160603/160601234709-16b84f6a958604926e045d8e5ed63b56 (fbodaily.com)
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