SOLICITATION NOTICE
93 -- THICK RAYON FELT
- Notice Date
- 5/11/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 313230
— Nonwoven Fabric Mills
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-0001
- ZIP Code
- 94035-0001
- Solicitation Number
- NNA12436005Q-AMD
- Response Due
- 5/25/2012
- Archive Date
- 5/11/2013
- Point of Contact
- Marianne Shelley, Contracting Officer, Phone 650-604-4179, Fax 650-604-3020, Email marianne.shelley@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Marianne Shelley
(marianne.shelley@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) has a requirement for 60 square yards of RayonFelt. The rayon felt must be 7-inches thick, so that NASA ARC may carbonize it, whichwill result in a 3-inch thick carbon felt. For TPS applications, NASA requiresthicknesses of greater than 3-inches for the thermal protection of flight vehicles. Carbon felt is the precursor for conformable ablators, currently under investigation atNASA ARC, which offer many advantages over rigid ablators for large heat shields.Commercially available carbon felts are currently manufactured in thicknesses of 1-inchor less. NASA intends to procure the rayon felt on a sole source basis from American Felt & FilterCompany, Inc. (AFFCO) of New Windsor, NY, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1). Market research conducted by NASA ARC within the past year, including the posting of RFI# NNA11TPSRFIL-AMD indicates that only AFFCO is capable of producing a rayon felt atleast 7 inches thick to meet the NASA requirement.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 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.Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for thisacquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html. Information about major upcoming ARC procurement actions is available athttp://ec.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eis/admin/admin.cgi?center=ARC
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