Status Report

NASA Solicitation: ISS USOS Sustaining Engineering

By SpaceRef Editor
October 14, 2002
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  • General Information
  • Solicitation Number: 9-BG-58-2-82P
  • NAIS Posted Date: Oct 11, 2002
  • FedBizOpps Posted Date: Oct 11, 2002
  • Response Date: Nov 25, 2002
  • Classification Code: A — Research and Development
  • Contracting Office Address

 
NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BG

Description
 
NASA/JSC is hereby soliciting information for potential sources for the United States On-Orbit Segment (USOS) Sustaining Engineering in support of the International Space Station Program (ISSP). This was previously announced through a Request for Information of the ISS Contract Strategy (9-BG-12-2-69P) in March 2002.

NASA/JSC plans on contracting by other than full and open competition with Boeing Space and Communications Group to fulfill these requirements. The authority permitting other than full and open competition is FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1). NASA/JSC believes that this contracting approach will significantly reduce technical and schedule risk to the ISSP. The plan is to award a contract in January of 2004. See note 22. It is the Governments intention that this procurement will serve as a bridge contract leading to a competitive award in 2007.

A preliminary draft Statement of Work (SOW) is currently available at the following website http://jsc-web-pub.jsc.nasa.gov/bd01/ISS/ .

Data Requirements Documents, Applicable Documents Lists, Government Furnished Property, Materials, or Facilities, and types of contracts, or any other terms and conditions, and attachments have not been completed/determined at this time. NASA/JSC is only soliciting information for the purposes of performing market research analysis and to provide industry with additional insight into the layout of the requirements, and to solicit comments for clarification. This draft SOW should not be used for pricing or proposal preparation purposes.

You are invited to provide comments to the draft SOW. Your comments/recommendations will be taken into consideration for the development of the overall contract strategy. No questions will be answered at this time.

The NAICS code of 541710 has been established for this procurement, with the exception for space vehicles.

Please advise, based on the draft SOW, if the requirement is considered to be a commercial or commercial-type product. A commercial item is defined in Internet “Note A.”

No RFP solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of a solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in Fed Biz Opps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offerors’ responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis.

Responses must include the following: name and address of firm; size of business by stating average annual revenue for past 3 years and average number of employees for past 3 years; ownership; whether you are disadvantaged, 8(a), HUB Zone, woman-owned, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, historically black college or university, and/or a minority institution; number of years in business; affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); capability to perform the effort described in the draft SOW. If your interest is as a subcontractor identify your interest and capabilities by WBS. Please provide this data to John E. Trahan by October 28, 2002.

This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited. Capabilities/qualifications submitted by industry will be evaluated solely for the purpose of establishing socioeconomic subcontracting goals. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation.

The Government reserves the right to consider a small business or 8(a) set-aside based on responses hereto. All responses shall be submitted in writing to John E. Trahan no later than 4:30 P.M. local time on November 25, 2002. It is requested that all potential subcontractor information by provided by October 28, 2002. In responding, reference 9-BG-58-2-82P. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html

Point of Contact

  • Name: John E. Trahan
  • Title: Contracting Officer
  • Phone: (281) 483-0543
  • Fax: (281) 244-7563
  • Email: john.e.trahan1@jsc.nasa.gov

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