SOURCES SOUGHT
18 -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION-ICE CLOUDS AND LAND ELEVATION SATELLITE ICESAT-2SPACECRAFT
- Notice Date
- 3/27/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 336414
— Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.Y, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-ICESAT-2-SPACECRAFT
- Response Due
- 4/17/2009
- Archive Date
- 3/27/2010
- Point of Contact
- Ann L. Kearney, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-4842, Fax 301-286-5373, />
- E-Mail Address
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ann.l.kearney@nasa.gov<br
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS *NOT* A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL, QUOTATION, OR INVITATION TO BID NOTICEThis Request for Information (RFI) is intended to identify potential interest inconducting studies for the Ice, Clouds, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 ICESat-2Spacecraft. Attachment A provides a description of the project and options underconsideration.This RFI does not obligate the U.S. Government to a future procurement. Furthermore, alleffort performed in response to this RFI shall be financed by the vendor. The U.S.Government will not reimburse the vendor for any effort completed under this RFI. Although not obligated to a future procurement, it is anticipated that a futurespacecraft would be procured under a contract to be awarded next fiscal year.The U.S. Government will protect all proprietary information received from the vendors,and distribution of any material will be based on strict need-to-know basis. RFI Response Content Instructions:For planning purposes, we are requesting that the responses to this RFI include thefollowing information:Section 1 Description of company capabilities and experience designing and building thespacecraft, performing observatory-level integration and environmental testing as well asproviding launch support, and mission operations similar to the ICESat-2 mission.Section 2 - Description of payload accommodation on recommended spacecraft to include: choice of heritage spacecraft; mission unique modifications required; performancemargins; mission unique integration and test (I&T) provisions such as alignment andcleanliness; sketches of Payload mounting configuration and fields of view.Section 3 Description of capabilities of recommended spacecraft, performance options,previous flight heritage, expected radiation environment, and compatibility launchvehicle compatibility with EELV, Taurus 2 and Falcon 9 vehicles.Section 4 ROM cost estimate, funding profile, and schedule for spacecraft andobservatory implementation through I&T to shipment to the launch site; launch site andlaunch operations; on-orbit checkout and government acceptance. Section 5 - Description of key technical, schedule and price drivers and options tomitigate risks and/or trades for reduction in overall mission cost.Section 6 - Mission Unique Discussions:Please address the following specific items/concerns:a) Recommended spacecraft redundancy given the ICESat-2 mission conceptsb) The Instrument Team believes that redundant Spacewire links should be used to providecommand telemetry and science data interfaces. Discuss the trade-offs on the spacecraftside to using Spacewire and using Spacewire as the sole interface. c) The Project is required to implement command authentication on the command uplink tosupport Space Asset Protection Requirements (GPD 7120.1A). Please discuss how you wouldimplement this requirement.d) Approach for meeting pointing requirements.In addition, discuss approach andconsiderations if the IRU units are Contractor provided to the instrument provider forintegration and testing on the instrument optical benche) Considerations for power subsystem given laser requirements at End Of Life (EOL)f) Launch vehicle options and considerations. Discuss approach and considerations forcompatibility to multiple launch vehiclesg) Considerations of the spacecraft design/integration for each mission concept outlinedin Attachment A Any questions regarding this RFI should be addressed to:Douglas McLennan, ICESat-2 Project Manager, 301-614-5413, emailDouglas.D.McLennan@nasa.gov. Questions regarding technical information may be addressedto Joy Henegar-Leon, ICESat-2 Systems Engineer, 301-286-8415, emailJoy.M.Henegar-Leon@nasa.gov.Please submit responses in accordance with the above RFI Response Content Instructions nolater than April 17, 2009. Responses may be sent via electronic mail (in eitherMicrosoft Word or ADOBE PDF format), regular mail, or fax. Electronic responses may besent to Douglas.D.McLennan@nasa.gov or Joy.M.Henegar-Leon@nasa.gov; Regular mail or faxresponses may be sent to NASA/GSFC, Attn: Ann Kearney, Code 210.5, Bldg. 22, Room 126,8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771; FAX 301-286-5373.An ombudsman has been appointed -- See NASA Specific Note "B".The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over theInternet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may beaccessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFCBusiness Opportunities home page ishttp://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51 It is theofferor's responsibility to monitor the Internet cite for the release of the solicitationand amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading theirown copy of the solicitation and amendments, if any. Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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