SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER CAMERA PHASE E CONTRACT EXTENSION
- Notice Date
- 5/10/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 336414
— Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- RFP-LRO-NNG07EK00C
- Response Due
- 5/25/2012
- Archive Date
- 5/10/2013
- Point of Contact
- Julie A. Janus, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-4931, Fax 301-286-0341, Email Julie.A.Janus@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Julie A. Janus
(Julie.A.Janus@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has a requirement for the continuation ofContract NNG07EK00C with Arizona State University (ASU) Lunar Reconnaissance OrbiterCamera (LROC) Investigation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Mission.ASU iscurrently performing both the flight operations, which includes spacecraft operationsplanning, scheduling, and engineering parameter review and trending, as well as thescience operations which includes initiating all target requests to the instrument,planning all instrument modes and turn-ons, data dissemination to the co-investigatorsand to the general scientific community through the Planetary Data System (PDS). NASA/GSFC intends to issue a sole-source Request for Proposal (RFP) to ASU. Theestimated period of performance of this cost-no-fee (CNF) contract extension will be for2-years from March 16, 2013 through March 15, 2015. The ASU is the only organization currently qualified to perform the subject requirementfor the following reasons: 1) This procurement will enable the science and flightoperations activities to be merged and carried out at ASU with a substantial universityundergraduate and graduate student educational involvement. Only ASU possesses the highlevel scientific expertise, the detailed design, test and operations knowledge of theLROC instrument and LRO spacecraft, and the capability to integrate the scienceoperations and science data analysis. This expertise and experience is essential becausethe majority of the science operations flow from the science data analysis and requireknowledge both of the Instrument science and Instrument design, test and operation. Inparticular, this expertise is necessary for the selection of appropriate imaging targets,the camera settings associated with the targets, and the creation of the daily targetload for the spacecraft. Similarly, the science data analysis is enhanced by directknowledge of the Instrument science operations. It would be unproductive to separatescience operations from science data analysis;2) ASU scientists and engineers areunique in their familiarity with the LROC instrument design, testing and calibration aswell as the LRO spacecraft. From 2005-2009, ASU designed, fabricated, calibrated,tested, and integrated the LROC instrument for the LRO spacecraft, including at theSpacecraft level after delivery to LRO. Under contract NNG07EK00C, ASU has successfullycarried out the science operations of the LROC instrument on the LRO spacecraft since LROlaunch in June 2009. Dr. Mark Robinson of ASU, as a leading expert in his field ofplanetary geophysics, was selected by NASA Headquarters to lead this investigation, basedon an evaluation of his proposal submitted under the Announcement of Opportunity forexploration measurements in NASAs LRO Mission (AO NNH04ZSS003O). The LROC instrument isa state-of-the-art, one-of-a-kind instrument. In addition, ASU developed software for: testing the instruments on-orbit, generating target selection, checking telemetryreceived for health and safety of the instruments, processing the raw data so thatscientists can manipulate, display, and analyze the scientific data received, andproducing summary data. This effort requires the detailed understanding of theinstrument and all related software. Since no other organization was involved with theseactivities on an in-depth level, no other organization currently has the knowledge andexperience to perform the requirement.Statutory authority for this procurement is 10 U.S.C. 304(c)(1)--Only One ResponsibleSource. However, organizations who believe they can provide these services without anydetrimental impact to the program schedules supported by this work should fully identifytheir interest and capabilities within 15 days after publication of this synopsis. 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 May 25, 2012. 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. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be consideredby the agency.The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.See Note26. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note 'B'. Any referenced notesmay be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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