SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- DEVELOPMENT OF REPLICATE APOLLO LUNAR ROVING VEHICLE WHEELS
- Notice Date
- 12/1/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135
- ZIP Code
- 44135
- Solicitation Number
- NNC07179546L
- Response Due
- 12/15/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/1/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This notice is issued by the NASA/GRC to post a Draft Statement of Work via the internet, and solicit responses from interested parties. 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. Prospective Offerors are invited to submit written comments or questions to: Richard Amiot, no later than 12/15/2006. When responding, reference NNC07179546L and ?Development of Replicate Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle Wheels?. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED REGARDING THIS POSTING. Comments may be forwarded to Richard Amiot via electronic transmission or by facsimile transmission. THIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF SOLICIATION. IT IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. Submittal Instructions: I. Please send relevant literature and information to: E-mail address: Richard.W.Amiot@nasa.gov or Fax: (216) 433-5489. II. NASA is interested in receiving detailed comments on the requirements and design concepts. NASA is also interested in: identifying any areas that might generate unusual issues and if this effort can be accomplished under a fixed price contract. Other questions of interest: 1. What are the engineering characteristics of the LRV wheel that relate to traction, motion resistance, and wear performance in soft soil? 2. What measurements should be made to determine the appropriate engineering characteristics of the prototype Apollo LRV wheels? 3. How could measurements be made without damaging the prototype wheels? 4. Would it be useful to make computer model of the wheel? If so, why, and what types of models. What software package(s) would be used? How would the models be built? What methods of analysis would be employed? 5. What is your hypothesis regarding how the original LRV wheel carcass was woven? How could the wire-mesh carcass be woven today? 6. What are the major challenges associated with this effort? 7. What is the approximate cost of this work? III. All comments, including those to the System Requirements and Design Concepts, included as an attachment to an emailed response shall be in either Microsoft Word, or PDF format. As part of your information package, please include company Technical Point(s) of Contact including address, telephone number and e-mail address. IV. Comments received from the RFI will be considered to be proprietary if they are marked as such. Those wishing to keep their responses confidential should state so at the beginning of their response with such wording as ?Confidential or Limited distribution. Please do not disclose outside of the US Government.? V. At its discretion, NASA may request further discussions and/or clarification of the information submitted. If agreeable to both parties, such discussions may take place via teleconferencing or on-site visit to NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio at the responder?s expense. If they do occur, discussions will be constrained to a two hour time duration, and will consist of vendor presentations and subsequent discussions of the presented material only. Representatives from the United States Government Agencies and its contractors may be present for such discussions. 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/GRC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=22 . 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.
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