Earth Venture 2 AO, Amendment 1: Changes regarding small business subcontracting plans, full cost accounting, and data centers

NNH11ZDA012O
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Proposals Due: September 15, 2011

With this amendment, the NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO) NNH11ZDA012O, “Earth Venture 2,” has been amended to remove a proposal requirement for a small business contracting plan, to provide clarification to instructions to NASA Centers regarding full cost accounting, and to clarify responsibility for the assignment of a NASA data center.

This amendment removes the reference to North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and removes the requirement for a small business subcontracting plan from the proposal (Section 5.5.1, Section J.11 of Appendix B). A small business subcontracting plan will be required from the selected offeror prior to award (Section 7.4.3). Requirement 40 and Requirement B-67 are deleted. Further information may be found in NASA Procurement Information Circular (PIC) 11-01 ( http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/pic11-01.html).

This amendment clarifies one point (the CM&O rate for NASA Centers) and corrects an error (the source of civil servant labor funding under the current NASA budget structure) regarding full cost accounting for NASA facilities and personnel (Section 5.6.5).

This amendment clarifies that NASA will assign a data center after mission selection (Section 4.4.3) and that data management plans should address specific Earth Science standards (Appendix B, Section E.4).

On or about July 26, 2011, Amendment No. 1 to the NASA Announcement of Opportunity “Earth Venture 2” (NNH11ZDA012O) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ (select “Solicitations” then “Open Solicitations” then “NNH11ZDA012O”).

Questions concerning the Earth Venture 2 AO may be addressed to Dr. Ramesh K. Kakar, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546-0001; Telephone: 202-358-0240; E-mail: Ramesh.K.Kakar@nasa.gov (subject line to read “EARTH VENTURE 2 AO”).