NASA Sources Sought Notice: Request for Information for the Earth Atmospheric Solar-Occultation Imager (EASI)
General Information
Document Type: Sources Sought Notice
Solicitation Number: EASIRFI-GBN
Posted Date: Jan 27, 2005
Original Response Date: Mar 04, 2005
Current Response Date: Mar 04, 2005
Original Archive Date: Jan 27, 2006
Current Archive Date: Jan 27, 2006
Classification Code: A — Research & Development
Contracting Office Address
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Description
The Earth Atmospheric Solar-Occultation Imager (EASI) is an Earth sciences mission under study by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
EASI is conceived of as an interferometric 8-meter 1-dimensional interferometer at L2 (Lagrange-2) to provide the first 3-dimensional map of the greenhouse gases for the entire Earth.
Global coverage from L2 would be provided once per day from the lower troposphere at 6 km to the middle stratosphere at ~30 km (desired resolution: Altitude 1 km, Latitude 0.1 degrees, Longitude (2 degrees). It is anticipated that EASI will be proposed under an upcoming announcement for the NASA Blue Horizon?s Opportunity scheduled for release in 2006.
It is anticipated that the first AO will be in the form of an NRA for a science mission study followed by a separate AO for a pre-phase A mission study.
This Request for Information (RFI) is being issued to request information for past performance as well as current and future capabilities of potential industrial partners for mission and instrument studies for EASI.
Specifically to: Assess capabilities in terms of the integrated systems that constitute the EASI mission including: (1) Integrated Interferometric/Spacecraft Systems (2) Active Optical Control Systems (3) Instrument System ? Interferometer/Spectrometer systems (4) Mission Architecture (5) Integration and Test
Respondents should respond with information on their capabilities in one or more (or all) of the above areas. This document 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. There will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners for this RFI process; we are only soliciting information for potential teaming partners on upcoming proposal opportunities. The response of the RFI is due by 5 pm EST on March 4, 2005. All responses should be submitted electronically, either as a PDF or a WORD document, on or before this time to Richard.G.Lyon@nasa.gov; an acknowledgement email will be sent back to the respondent.
This presolicitation synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information submitted in response.
Respondents will not be notified of the results. 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/GSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51 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.
Point of Contact
Dawn M. Fountain, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 286-3815, Fax (301) 286-1773, Email dfountai@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov
Email your questions to Dawn M. Fountain at dfountai@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov
