SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- 11 MONTH EXTENSION OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND LOGISTICS SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 3/29/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BG
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 9-BG-79-2-70P
- Response Due
- 5/13/2002
- Archive Date
- 3/29/2003
- Point of Contact
- James P. Gips, Contracting Officer, Phone (281) 244-7878, Fax (281) 244-7563, Email james.p.gips1@jsc.nasa.gov - Diana Gomez, Contract Specialist, Phone (281) 244-8458, Fax (281) 244-7563, Email diana.gomez1@jsc.nasa.gov
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Email your questions to James P. Gips
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- Description
- NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for an 11 Month Extension to the NASA Contract NAS9-19549 for Russian Language and Logistics Servcies (RLLS). The contractor will continue to provide services for an additional eleven months from February 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003. The services provided by TTI include interpreting, translation, language training, Russian Segment Support, and Logistics. Interpretation services include interpreting the Russian spoken language for English speaking individuals and interpreting English for Russian speaking individuals. Interpretation services are used during face-to-face meetings, telecons, from Houston Mission Control Center (MCC) to the International Space Station (ISS), and from the Russian TsUP to the ISS. The last two items combined require 24 hours a day, 7 days a week services. Translation services include translation of documents of which many are extremely complex engineering and medical documents. From time to time, schematics are translated from Russian to English. The contractor provides language training for English speaking individuals expected to travel to Russia on a short term or long term basis. Intensive courses are provided to astronauts who will live and train in Russia for future missions. The contractor also provides transportation services in Russia and in the U.S. The program has determined that it is both safer for travelers and more cost effective to provide transportation for all U.S. travelers in Russia and all Russian travelers in the U. S. Typically travelers are not familiar enough with Russian laws and driving customs to be safe drivers in Russia. Economically, based on the expected number of travelers per year, it is cheaper for the Government to provide vans and drivers for travelers. Also, logistics provides labor for scheduling. Every meeting requiring an interpreter and every document requiring translation is processed through the contractor's scheduling department. Scheduling is essential to ensuring that the interpreter's are properly matched to meetings that may require a particular expertise. In addition, documents requiring immediate turnarounds must be scheduled around existing efforts. A fairly large percentage of the contract is a fixed price subcontract with a Russian formed company Space Flight Computer Support Center. The subcontract provides Russian engineers from the TsUP to man flight consoles and support training and simulations to support Russian Segment hardware on orbit. The Russian subcontractors are brought to Houston on three month rotation periods. Any contractor providing these highly specialized services in Russia must be legally registered to do business in Russia. NASA/JSC intends to purchase the items from TechTrans International, Inc. The authority cited permitting other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) or 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1); Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Government does not believe that competing this effort at this time is to its advantage. Any cost savings achieved through competition would be diminished and overshadowed by costs and time delays needed to build relationships with both the ISS Program Office and the Russian partners including building an infrastructure within the Russian community. However, NASA does intend to compete this effort in the near future. The RLLS effort will be combined and competed as part of the ISS Mission Integration effort resulting in a contract to be awarded by 12/31/03. To that end, NASA has issued a Request for Information Synopsis (9-BG-12-2-69P) which idicates the ISS Program's Contract Consolidation Strategy. This synopsis discusses the strategy developed to consolidate contracts and offer competition opportunities to those interested. To obtain a copy of the strategy, please view website http://jsc-web-pub.jsc.nasa.gov/bd01/excellent-strategy/ The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. See note 22. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local time on May 13, 2002. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B". All qualified responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html
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