SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Partnership Opportunity Document for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center FOXSI X-Ray Detectors
- Notice Date
- 11/30/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 336419
— Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NASA-GSFC-Partnership-Opportunity-Document-FOXSI-X-RAY-DETECTORS
- Point of Contact
- Mark Beckman, Phone: (301) 286-7181
- E-Mail Address
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mark.beckman@nasa.gov
(mark.beckman@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Partnership Opportunity Document for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) FOXSI X-Ray Detectors dated November 30, 2017 1.0INTRODUCTION/SCOPE This proposal opportunity is in response to the NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO), NNH16ZDA005O which was released on July 13, 2016. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is developing a mission concept called FOXSI. FOXSI has been selected to provide a Phase A Concept Study Report (CSR). This partnership opportunity is being issued to select a teaming partner to provide detectors for the DSI instrument. The proposed mission is currently in Phase A. This phase ends with a CSR which is due July 30, 2018. The following schedule should be used as a basis for responses to this opportunity: Partnership Opportunity Document released11/30/17 Responses due12/29/17 Partner Selection announced1/26/18 CSR due date7/30/18 Begin Phase B4/19 Launch ReadinessNLT 6/22 1.1COST Total cost and cost fidelity are important issues for the mission trade studies. The mission cost cap for this AO is $165 million. The X-ray detector is expected to be a small fraction of that total. There will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners for the portion of this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the CSR submission (Phase A, Step 2 proposal) to the Heliophysics SMEX AO. Funding will be available for subsequent phases should the candidate mission concept be competitively selected for those additional phases. 1.2DESIRED MISSION SERVICES GSFC is interested in formally establishing a partner to provide the following services for the FOXSI mission: X-ray detectors. All interested parties are required to respond to this POD in accordance with Section 5 below. 1.3PROPOSAL SUPPORT It is expected that the selected POD respondent will provide support using their own resources to help develop the required SMEX proposal elements in response to the Step 2 Phase A NASA Heliophysics SMEX AO in the area of X-ray detectors. If the mission is selected for development and launch (Phases B-F), the partner will be responsible for providing the X-ray detectors. 2.0MISSION OVERVIEW The FOXSI concept consists of a sun-pointed instrument that shall be accommodated on a spacecraft launched into a low inclination orbit (<30 degrees) at approximately a 600 km altitude. The instrument has an extendable optical bench (EOB) with a detector assembly at one end and an optical assembly at the other. The optical assembly is at the end opposite to the spacecraft bus. The EOB extends only once to a distance between 10 and 15 meters. 3.0TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS The FOXSI mission will be designated a Class D mission. The detectors sought for the FOXSI mission must satisfy or exceed the following requirements: 1.The total power usage must be less than 7 Watts. 2.The mass of the total assembly must be less than 0.15 kg. 3.The detector array shall be at least 4 cm by 4 cm on each side. A small gap is acceptable if individual detectors must be tiled to provide the required detector area. 4.The detector(s) must be mounted on an alignment block accurate to 50 microns. 5.The detector shall be able to detect individual X-ray photons in the energy range 3 to 80 keV with an efficiency of no less than 85% with an average of at least 95% over that energy range. 6.The detector shall have pixels or provide a position accuracy of individual X-rays to at least 250 microns. 7.The detector shall be able to handle high counting rates (>=10,000 counts per second) in individual pixels. 8.The detector array shall be able to detect up to 30,000 photons per second. 9.The detected output signal may be analog or digital. 10.The detector must be able to support an energy resolution for each detected X-ray better than 1 keV. 11.The detector assembly shall fit within a cylinder with 15 cm diameter and 5 cm depth. 4.0STATEMENT OF WORK During the proposal preparation period, the partner will participate as part of the mission proposal team, supporting NASA to develop the partners final Phase B-F Statements of Work (SOWs). The final SOW is not a deliverable with proposal submission; however, to support the Governments evaluation of the POD response, the partner shall provide a draft Phase B-F SOW, and Cost and schedules for the manufacture, delivery, test and integration of 2 flight detectors, 1 flight spare, and an engineering unit. The draft SOW will include general task statements and include the following as a minimum: Scope of Work, deliverables (flight hardware, spares, engineering test units, & science data), and Government Responsibilities (as applicable), and preliminary schedules. The draft SOWs is expected to be a few pages in length. 5.0POD RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMAT 5.1INSTRUCTIONS The respondent shall: •Demonstrate understanding and quantified experience in the design, fabrication, integration, and testing of the detector system proposed. The response shall describe how the proposed detectors meet the requirements given in Section 3. •Describe the detector to instrument interfaces. Provide information on the maturity of these interfaces and indicate if the latest configuration has flight heritage and demonstrated on-orbit performance. •Describe detector capabilities as they apply to the requirements given in Section 3. •Provide the total detector mass and size. •Identify the technical maturity/qualification of the proposed detector for space application as well as provide on-orbit life-time capability of the proposed detector. •Provide a brief statement of work defining Phase B-D activities. •Provide an estimated cost for the design, testing and delivery of detectors to GSFC. The response shall include a brief discussion of the uncertainty in the cost estimate. 5.2FORMAT The response to this partnership opportunity is limited to 10 pages in not less than 12-point font. Excluded from the page count are the cover letter, title pages, table of contents, and acronym list. Partners may attach additional appendices that further describe their capabilities, although GSFC is under no obligation to include the contents of such appendices in the evaluation of the offer package. The entire offer package, including any cover letter, title pages, and other supporting material, shall be formatted as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file delivered to the E-mail address in Section 7. 6.0EVALUATION FACTORS AND CRITERIA The evaluation team will use the following factors in selection and award: 1.Technical Approach (30%). Offerors will be evaluated on their ability to meet the technical requirements given in Section 3. This includes demonstrated understanding of the requirements and proposed approach to meet those requirements. 2.Cost (30%). Offerors will be evaluated on their overall cost and on the reasonableness of cost and schedule estimates. 3.Relevant Experience and Past Performance (40%). Special emphasis will be given to demonstrated experience with similar instruments. 7.0POINT OF CONTACT: Questions about this POD should be directed to Mark Beckman (Phone: 301-286-7181, Email: mark.beckman@nasa.gov). 8.0FINAL DUE DATE OF POD RESPONSE The response to the POD is due no later than 5 p.m. ET on December 29, 2017. The electronic PDF document shall be sent to Mark Beckman (Email mark.beckman@nasa.gov)   9.0ACRONYMS AOAnnouncement of Opportunity CSRConcept Study Report DSIDirect Spectroscopic Imager EOBExtendable Optical Bench ETEastern Time FOXSIFocusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager GSFCGoddard Space Flight Center PDFPortable Document Format PODPartnership Opportunity Document SMEXSmall Explorer SOWStatement of Work
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