NASA Solicitation: Heavy Ion Irradiation Facility for Space Flight Hardware Evaluation
Synopsis – Aug 24, 2011
General Information
Solicitation Number: NNG11405256Q
Posted Date: Aug 24, 2011
FedBizOpps Posted Date: Aug 24, 2011
Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No
Original Response Date: Sep 03, 2011
Current Response Date: Sep 03, 2011
Classification Code: A — Research and Development
NAICS Code: 541712 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
Contracting Office Address
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Description
NASA/GSFC has a requirement for Heavy-ion Beam Time and related support services in support of the Mars Atmosphere, Volatile Evolution, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer missions. Testing will be conducted for a period of 48 hrs on October 6-8, 2011. Several specific requirements exist:
1. A range of tuned ion energies appropriate for single-event effects tests of packaged devices (board level and device level electronics) shall exist. This range shall be between 15-40 MeV/amu. Degraders may be used to gain lower energies than 15 MeV/amu. 2. Testing shall be conducted in-air— as opposed to vacuum – with a full range of tilt angles accessible from +90 to -90 3. Heavy-ion beam structure shall be near continuous to facilitate dynamic testing for a single event effects. 4. Beam accuracy across the irradiation area shall have less than 10% variance to facilitate accurate performance degradation results and pre-flight predictions. 5. NASA/GSFC shall be the prime user of the pronton beam during test campaigns in order to provide controlled paraticle intensities (beam flux) and known beam structure to allow for proper post-irradiation data analysis.
a. Shared user facilities provide uncertainties and increased risk for results and data analyses.
6. Facility shall have ion range in silicon up to at least 3.5 mm.
NASA/GSFC intends to purchase the items from Texas A&M University Cyclotron Facility because they are able to provide accelerated heavy ion beams used for single-event effects testing of the kind.
The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.
Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 2:30 p.m. local time on September 3, 2011. Such capabilities/qualifications 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 installation Ombudsman is Nancy A. Abell, email nancy.a.abell@nasa.gov.
Point of Contact
Name: Torey Stevenson
Title: Buyer
Phone: 301-286-8163
Fax: 301-286-1773
Email: torey.d.stevenson@nasa.gov
