SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- MEMBERSHIP FEE
- Notice Date
- 12/12/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 813920
— Professional Organizations
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.Y, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNG14497349L
- Response Due
- 12/27/2013
- Archive Date
- 12/12/2014
- Point of Contact
- Tiffanie C Ferrell, Purchasing Agent, Phone 301-614-5323, Fax 301-286-5373, Email Tiffanie.C.Ferrell@nasa.gov - Sislyn P Barrett, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-614-5533, Fax 301-286-5373, Email Sislyn.P.Barrett@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Tiffanie C Ferrell
(Tiffanie.C.Ferrell@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/GSFC has a requirement for membership with Internet2. Payment of the membership fee allows NASA ESDIS Project to be a member of the University Consortium for Advanced Internet Design (UCAID) with Internet2. <p> NASA/GSFC intends to purchase the service from Internet2. Through Internet2 membership, the community focuses on developing and deploying advanced networking technologies and capabilities in service of U.S. research and higher education. <p> Internet2 provides the ESDIS Project with a dynamic and innovative packet network. The network was designed to provide next-generation production services as well as a platform for the development of new networking protocols. ESDIS uses this network as a back-up to the NASA Internet to support network traffic to the NASA data centers and science investigator processing systems at several Universities. <p> NASA has maintained membership with UCAID for Internet for over 10 years through various procurements at GSFC. This procurement provides continuity to existing ESDIS networks. There are no other vendors that can provide this support. Internet2 is a consortium developed network and is proprietary. This membership allows NASA to be part of the Internet2 Consortium. There are no alternatives to gain access to this network. <p> No alternatives exists to the Internet2 infrastructure at this date that provides the speed and reliability required by the ESDIS Project for its satellite missions. <p> The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local time on December 27, 2013. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose 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 open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. <p> Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. <p> All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. <p> NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html. <p>
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