NASA Partnership Opportunity Document for New Frontiers Mission Opportunities
Synopsis – Mar 05, 2012
Partnership Opportunity Document (POD) – Posted on Mar 05, 2012
General Information
Solicitation Number: 2012-401
Posted Date: Mar 05, 2012
FedBizOpps Posted Date: Mar 05, 2012
Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No
Original Response Date: Mar 27, 2012
Current Response Date: Mar 27, 2012
Classification Code: A — Research and Development
NAICS Code: 541712
Set-Aside Code:
Contracting Office Address
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Description
NASA GSFC is considering missions to Solar System targets that may be addressed in future New Frontiers opportunities. NASA GSFC is seeking partners for spacecraft subsystems for potential pre proposal studies, and eventual proposals. The potential missions are designed to meet the science goals of the New Frontiers programs, as currently described in the recent Planetary Decadal Survey. This opportunity requests a specific subsystem listed in section 2.0 of the attached POD.
GSFC mission teams will be submitting proposals to the New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity (AO) expected to be release in 2015. The AO is a two-step process, with the first proposal response being primarily focused on the merit and feasibility of the science objectives of the proposed mission. The initial submissions will then be down-selected, and the resultant subset of proposals will be funded to perform Phase A concept studies. During Phase A, proposals will be expanded and refined to detail the entire end-to-end mission life cycle concept, with greater attention to engineering implementation. While the AO schedule cannot be specified at this time, the following is estimated based on earlier AO’s and related missions: AO release 2015 Proposals due 2015 Phase A selection TBD Phase A concept study report 2016 Mission selection TBD Preliminary Design Review TBD Critical Design Review TBD Launch 2020/2022 Timeframe End of Operations Launch + 2 to 10 years depending upon target
This partnership opportunity is being issued to select teaming partners to do pre-proposal mission studies and to help prepare the GSFC New Frontiers candidate mission concepts for the initial proposal submittal; to assist in the Phase A concept studies if the mission is down-selected; and to provide a flight qualified system should the mission be selected for flight.
GSFC is interested in finding partners for the subsystems surrounding the sample collection, retrieval, and storage of material from a comet, as well as the integration of these systems.
For the portion of this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the initial submission to the New Frontiers AOs there will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners. Funding will be available for Phase A and subsequent phases should the mission be competitively selected for those additional phases.
Point of Contact
Name: Nylsevalis Ortiz-Collazo
Title: Contracting Officer
Phone: 301-286-2387
Fax: 301-286-1670
Email: Nylsevalis.Ortizcollazo-1@nasa.gov
