D -- ESDIS MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT (EMD) SERVICES

Notice Date

January 19, 2001

Contracting Office

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 214.6, Greenbelt, MD 20771

ZIP Code

20771

E-Mail Address

Glenn T Emig (Glenn.T.Emig.1@gsfc.nasa.gov)

Description

This request for information is issued by the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project Office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Its purpose is to conduct market research by seeking industry comments and inputs concerning a contract for the integrated maintenance and enhancement of software and hardware systems that provide science data management for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE). The systems are currently deployed at four different locations in the United States. The contractor will be asked to provide maintenance and enhancements to science data management software to sustain the system and to reduce the overall cost of maintenance and operations to the ESDIS project. The contractor will also be asked to provide maintenance and upgrades of the hardware components of the systems. The contractor will also be asked to conduct engineering studies in support of future data system implementation, and will be asked to seek innovative and cost effective ways of supporting current and future data system needs.***** The ESDIS Project encourages responses from businesses or other groups interested in this opportunity. The government anticipates that the successful offeror will be experienced in software maintenance, and will have established processes and a flexible pool of qualified human resources to draw upon.***** This RFI describes: 1) the context for this work within NASA's Earth Science Enterprise; 2) the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), a comprehensive data and information system which provides the umbrella context for the contractor's work; 3) the functions of the science data management system; 4) an overview of the elements of work planned for this contract; 5) information about what is requested in response to the RFI; and 6) references. Annex 1 presents specific market research questions for interested parties.***** The complete EMD RFI statement, the Statement of Work, and the Market Research Questions are available on line at http://spso.gsfc.nasa.gov/emd/. *****

Web Link

Click here for the latest information about this notice (http://nais.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51#RFI-ESDIS-EMD-1)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010123/SPMSC009.HTM (D-019 SN50B2Z2)