NASA RFI: Alternate TPS and Alternate Architectures to Carbon Phenolic
RFI – Alternate TPS Description Document – Posted on Jan 31, 2012
General Information
Solicitation Number: N/A
Reference Number: NNA12ALTTPSL-AMD
Posted Date: Jan 31, 2012
FedBizOpps Posted Date: Jan 31, 2012
Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No
Original Response Date: Mar 02, 2012
Current Response Date: Mar 02, 2012
Classification Code: A — Research and Development
NAICS Code: 336419
Contracting Office Address
NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-0001
Description
This notice is issued by NASA/ARC to post a Request for Information (RFI) via the internet, and to solicit responses from interested parties. This RFI is for information and planning purposes and to allow industry the opportunity to verify reasonableness and feasibility of the requirement, as well as promote competition. This notice is to solicit information from the Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) community about TPS material and architecture options beyond the traditional Carbon Phenolic (CP) heritage such as Tape Wrapped Carbon Phenolic (TWCP) and Chop Molded Carbon Phenolic (CMCP) materials. A document attached to this posting, “Alternate TPS/ Alternate Architectures to Carbon Phenolic,” describes the technical aspects of this RFI in full.
The areas of interest and the focus of this RFI are:
1) New TPS materials that can meet or exceed the performance of the heritage CP, or 2) New entry vehicle architectures that can accomplish the missions (described in the attached RFI document) successfully without the use of CP.
Vendors or organizations having existing industrial capabilities and/or novel re-entry architectures are invited to submit a response to the specific questions outlined in the attached document.
In addition to the technical information requested, responses should include the following:
1) Name and address of firm, technical point of contact, phone number, e-mail, and website (if applicable); 2) Size of business based on NAICS code 336419 – whether your company is large, small, small disadvantaged, 8(a), HUBZone, veteran-owned and/or woman-owned; 3) Describe any collaboration or teaming arrangements with other organizations that might be used in order to provide the necessary expertise contained in this requirement.
All responses shall be submitted to the Contracting Officer by email to: Marianne.Shelley@nasa.gov, no later than March 2, 2012. Please reference NNA12ALTTPSL-AMD in the subject line.
This synopsis is for information and planning purposes, subject to FAR provision 52.215-3, entitled “Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes” and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. Although all comments received will be carefully reviewed and considered for inclusion in a later action, the initiators of this request make no commitment to include any particular recommendations.
No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offeror’s responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis.
An ombudsman has been appointed — See NASA Specific Note “B”.
The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/ARC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=21 It is the offeror’s responsibility to monitor the Internet cite for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments, if any.
Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
Information about major upcoming ARC procurement actions is available at http://ec.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eis/admin/admin.cgi?center=ARC .
Point of Contact
Name: Marianne Shelley
Title: Contracting Officer
Phone: 650-604-4179
Fax: 650-604-3020
Email: marianne.shelley@nasa.gov
Name: Manuel Herrada
Title: Contracting Officer
Phone: 650-604-1192
Fax: 650-604-0932
Email: Manuel.Herrada-1@nasa.gov
