CBD Announcement: Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support (ELVIS)
COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 28,2001 PSA#2797
SOL RFP10-01-0001
POC Roger A. MacLeod, Contracting Officer, Phone (321) 867-8340, Fax (321) 867-8341
The NASA/KSC hereby releases a Draft Request for Proposals (DRFP) for the Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support (ELVIS) acquisition. This requirement requires the successful contractor to provide integrated services to the NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) Program at Kennedy Space Center. The DRFP is being released incrementally. At this time the Government is soliciting comments on the Statement of Work (SOW) and Data Requirements List (DRL)/Data Requirement Description (DRD). All draft portions of the RFP, including the SOW, are subject to changes during solicitation development. Additional incremental releases of the DRFP will be posted on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS) as they become available.
Requirement. The successful offeror shall be required to implement a safety, health, and mission assurance program that provides a safe and healthy work environment, minimizes program risk, and maximizes mission success. The successful offeror shall provide engineering and technical services and studies for various ground/flight ELV systems and payloads as well as assistance in the development of ELV requirements and the development/implementation of associated systems management and integration activities. The contractor shall provide services at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), and other launch sites as well as maintain a presence at Launch Service Provider (LSP) facilities in accomplishment of these activities. The successful offeror shall be responsible for the management, operation, maintenance and sustaining engineering of the assigned NASA KSC facilities, systems, and equipment at VAFB in California.
The successful offeror shall provide engineering and technical services in for the NASA ELV program for the NASA resident/transient, payload customer/provider, and contractor personnel at VAFB. The successful offeror shall be responsible for the management, operation, maintenance, and sustaining engineering of the NASA ELV Telemetry Stations located at the CCAFS and at VAFB. The successful offeror shall provide required telemetry and communications as well as engineering and technical services for the data centers for all NASA and NASA-reimbursable missions. The successful offeror shall be responsible for the management, operation, maintenance, and sustaining engineering of the NASA Electromagnetic Lab (EML). The successful offeror shall provide electromagnetic compatibility testing, frequency control analysis, and all associated measurements to satisfy all launch and landing requirements for KSC and the Eastern Range (ER) in accordance with the Joint Operating Procedure agreed between the United States Air Force (USAF) 45th Space Wing and NASA KSC. The successful offeror shall provide the management, integration, technical, business and administrative functions required for the accomplishment of the contract requirements set forth in the SOW. The successful offeror shall perform these responsibilities in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible while supporting NASA’s top priorities of safety and health, mission success, and payload developer/customer satisfaction.
This procurement is a total small business set-aside. See Note 1. NAICS code is 54171, with a size standard of 1000 employees. NASA/KSC considers that there is an Organizational Conflict of Interest with current or potential Launch Service Providers and therefore intends to inserted a clause in the RFP excluding Launch Service Providers from participating in this solicitation. Offerors are advised that contract type and length of contract are still under review by the acquisition team. KSC is also considering a contract that contains a basic period of performance of five years, and two option periods, one 3 years in length the other 2 years.
This contract is subject to the Service Contract Act of 1965, with the primary places of performance at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), and other launch sites as well as maintain a presence at Launch Service Provider (LSP) facilities in accomplishment of these activities. The contractor shall also demonstrate knowledge and ability to manage Construction of Facilities (C of F) contracts using Davis-Bacon Act covered sub-contractors.
Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. Prospective offerors are encouraged to submit comments or suggestions on any portion of the SOW and DRFP that is unclear, ambiguous, unnecessary or an inefficient requirement. However, do not submit a proposal in response to this DRFP. After careful consideration of all comments and suggestions received, changes will be made to the DRFP where deemed appropriate and a final RFP will be issued. Comments to the draft SOW should be submitted by March 26, 2001. A cutoff date for comments on remaining DRFP will be two weeks after the last release.
Instructions for submission of comments are contained in the DRFP cover letter on the NAIS and KSC Procurement Homepage. Interested parties are encouraged to download the draft statement of work from the NAIS. Information is also available at the KSC Procurement Homepage via the World Wide Web (Internet) at the following address: http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/procurement/elvis/. A bidders list is also available at that address. A CBD notice will be posted prior to release of the Final RFP. It is the offeror’s responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of the final solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html.
Email Roger.MacLeod-1@ksc.nasa.gov.
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