SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- DIAGNOSTIC AND ADVANCED ICE PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL HEAT EXCHANGER
- Notice Date
- 12/3/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ10320024Q
- Response Due
- 12/8/2009
- Archive Date
- 12/3/2010
- Point of Contact
- Kathryn McLaurin, Contract Specialist, Phone 281-244-6963, Fax 281-244-5331, Email kathryn.mclaurin@nasa.gov - Stacy G. Houston, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-483-9649, Fax 281-483-2138, Email stacy.g.houston@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Kathryn McLaurin
(kathryn.mclaurin@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- NASA/JSC has a requirement for five additional heat exchangers in order to diagnosea previous test experience and further assess advanced ice phase change material (PCM)heat exchanger technologies. NASA JSCs Thermal Technology Development Project isinvestigating the use of ice/water as the PCM for Constellation space vehicle heatexchangers. The development project has designed, developed, and fabricated a unique teststand to assess and quantify the performance of these heat exchangers.After thisprocurement, the additional heat exchangers will be subjected to a rigorous thermalperformance test program at JSC using the already developed test stand designed tointerface with this hardware. Three of the heat exchangers will validate hypothesesexplaining why the unit failed during the previous test program. The remaining heatexchangers will be used to verify that the void control method, employed for the smallerheat exchanger, can also be effective for a larger scale unit. NASA/JSC intends to purchase the items from Energy Sciences Laboratories, Inc. Asmentioned above, the NASA/JSC technology development project plans to diagnose theprevious test results.As such, it is critically important that these products bedeveloped by the same manufacturer so that their performance can readily be tied back tothe original baseline heat exchangers.Furthermore, purchasing heat exchangers from adifferent vendor would introduce additional variables to the process. This advanced heatexchanger design is proprietary to ESLI and includes controlling the void distributionwith capillary effects resulting from fibers coupled with an acrylic gel. Thus, acquiringthese products from ESLI is in the best interest of the government. Purchasing fromanother vendor would reset the technology development timeline because a new baselinewould have to be established. This alternative path would cost the government severalhundred thousand dollars.The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform theeffort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local timeon December 8, 2009. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for thepurpose 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 opencompetition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretionof the government.Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B".Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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