MODIFICATION
A -- COLLABORATIONS FOR COMMERCIAL SPACE CAPABILITIES
- Notice Date
- 3/25/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- 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
- NASA-CCSC-01
- Response Due
- 4/21/2014
- Archive Date
- 3/25/2015
- Point of Contact
- Timothy A. Boyes, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-483-1838, Fax 281-483-5970, Email timothy.a.boyes@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Timothy A. Boyes
(timothy.a.boyes@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is modification 3 to the synopsis entitled Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities which was originally posted July 17, 2013. NASA intends to issue an Announcement soliciting proposals from all interested U.S. private enterprises that wish to enter into Space Act Agreements (SAA) for collaboration on emerging commercial space capabilities on or about March 31, 2014. The purpose of the agreements is to advance entrepreneurial space-related efforts by facilitating access to NASAs vast spaceflight resources including technical expertise, assessments, lessons learned, technologies, and data. With this activity, NASA intends to focus on facilitating the development of integrated space capabilities, not individual technologies or subsystem development efforts.NASA plans to use its other transactions authority within the National Aeronautics and Space Act, 51 U.S.C. 20113(e), to enter into multiple SAAs where each party bears the cost of its participation, and there is no exchange of funds between the parties. The SAAs resulting from this solicitation will serve as an agency-level mechanism for NASA and its partners to agree to a series of mutually beneficial activities that are expected to be consistent with NASAs 2014 Strategic Plan. There must be specific, identifiable benefits to one or more elements of Strategic Goal 1, Objective 1.1 to expand human presence into the solar system and to the surface of Mars to advance exploration, science, innovation, benefits to humanity, and international collaboration. The goal of the SAAs is to advance private sector development of integrated space capabilities so that the emerging products or services are commercially available to government and non-government customers within approximately the next five years. NASAs Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) is engaging in several initiatives to enable industry partnership opportunities such as the Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown Announcement (Solicitation Number: Lunar-CATALYST-01) and the Asteroid Redirect Mission Broad Agency Announcement (Solicitation Number: NNH14ZCQ002K). This Collaboration activity is an additional opportunity to partner with NASA and is not intended to preclude ongoing or future partnership discussions directly with NASA Centers or Mission Directorates. Entities with existing SAAs with NASA Centers or Mission Directorates are not required to respond to this Announcement to retain those SAAs. Participation in one initiative does not preclude participation in any of the others. Companies are free to interact with NASA in any or all of the initiatives that support their organizations goals. NASA will only consider proposals from U.S. private enterprises (including non-profit organizations) or commercial providers as defined by the Commercial Space Act of 1998. There may be future opportunities for the private sector to submit proposals to NASA for these types of agreements after the initial selections are made. Potential participants are responsible for monitoring the Internet website listed above for the release of the Announcement for Proposals and for downloading their own copy of the Announcement and amendments. Proposals shall be submitted in two parts. Part 1 will be an Executive Summary due approximately three weeks after release of the solicitation. NASA will notify each company whether its Executive Summary was among those most favorably evaluated. If so, the company shall have the opportunity to submit part two, a full proposal due back to NASA approximately three weeks after notification. The award of one or more SAAs is planned for summer 2014. NASA plans to conduct a pre-proposal teleconference on April 3 to discuss this activity and answer questions. For more information on this Announcement and the teleconference, visit http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/ccsc/. Documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/JSC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=73 Offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation and any amendments. Potential offerors are responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any).
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