SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- ENCLOSURE AND DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING MECHANISM
- Notice Date
- 4/2/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 336419
— Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.S, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-NASA-GSFC-POD-ENCLOSURE-DOOR-OPENING-MECHANISM
- Response Due
- 4/24/2015
- Archive Date
- 4/2/2016
- Point of Contact
- Michael Adams, Engineer, Phone 301-286-2010, Fax 301-286-0341, Email michael.l.adams@nasa.gov - Julie A. Janus, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-4931, Fax 301-286-0341, Email Julie.A.Janus@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Michael Adams
(michael.l.adams@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Introduction and Scope This partnership opportunity is for a Step 2 NASA Planetary Mission Opportunity in 2015. NASA/GSFC is seeking a partner for spaceflight instrument development for potential proposals to this opportunity. GSFC mission teams have submitted proposals to the Europa Instrument Investigation announcement (NNH12ZDA006O-Europa). This opportunity is a two-step process. The first proposal response, which is competed and already underway, is primarily focused on the scientific merit and technical feasibility of the proposed mission and its associated scientific investigation. The initial submissions will be down-selected after formal peer review and the resultant subset of proposals will be funded to perform Phase A mission concept studies. During Phase A, which is also a competed process, the proposal will be expanded and refined to detail the entire end-to-end life cycle concept, with greater attention to engineering implementation, cost, and schedule. Information on the Europa Instrument Program Element Appendix (PEA) of the Second Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-2) can be found on NSPIRES ( ht tp://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId= {D663DD46-1929-9482-24BA-D5BCDBAA10BC}&path=open). The time frame for this solicitation is intended to be: Selection for competitive Phase A studies: April 2015 (target) Concept Study Reports (CSR) due: December 2015 (target) Down-selection: April 2016 (target) The instrument schedule to be used for this POD is as follows (all dates are under review) System Requirements Review: July 2016 Preliminary Design Review: April 2017 Critical Design Review: April 2018 System Integration Review: April 2019 Pre-Environmental Review: October 2019 Pre-Ship Review: February 2020 This partnership opportunity is being issued to interested and qualified teaming partners to help prepare the NASA/GSFC concept for CSR submittal and to provide a flight qualified instrument subsystem should the instrument be selected for flight. This partnership opportunity is for the development, integration, test and delivery of an enclosure with a door opening and closing mechanism. For this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of this submission, there will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners. Funding will be available for subsequent phases should the investigation be approved to continue through the mission-defined gates for flight. NASA/GSFC reserves the option to not select any teaming partners under this POD offering on the basis of materials received. Technical Description Desired spaceflight system - GSFC is interested in finding a partner to provide a spaceflight-qualified Enclosure and Door Opening/Closing Mechanism. No other subsystems are part of this POD. Detailed information on the Enclosure and Door Mechanism specifications will be provided to those responding with a Notice of Interest.A Notice of Interest (intentionally not called a notice of intent) does not obligate an organization to provide a POD response. General Instructions for POD Response Potential respondents are asked to contact the GSFC team with a Notice Of Interest (intentionally not called a notice of intent).This Notice of Interest does not create an obligation to respond to the POD, but allows the GSFC team to disseminate additional details to provide answers to questions from potential partners. Notice of Interest respondents will receive a document containing additional details on the Enclosure and Door Opening/Closing Mechanism, which can be used to facilitate a focused response to the partnership opportunity. These details are competition sensitive and are not to be shared outside the teams necessary to prepare a full response. After receipt of the mission document, respondents may send questions to the GSFC point of contact (POC) listed below.All questions and answers will be made available to all those who respond to the Notice of Interest. The source of the questions shall be held confidential. Questions and answers that contain information unique to a respondents proprietary approach will not be shared if they are identified as such. Notice of Interest shall be sent to the POC listed below via email with Notice of Interest in the subject line, a simple sentence or two expressing interest and an email address to send further information. For purposes of this partnership opportunity, the contact is Michael Adams, Michael.L.Adams@nasa.gov, 301.286.2010. Responses to the POD shall: 1)Be in a presentation format that shall not exceed 20 pages. The font size for the text shall be no smaller than 12 point. 2)Address all requirements noted in Sections 2.0 through 6.0 of this document. Responses will be treated as proprietary information and controlled as such by NASAs GSFC for the US Government. The respondents shall deliver the requested information in a standard presentation format. Final presentation packages (electronic copy only, Portable Document Format {PDF} recommended) must be received by 5 pm EDT, April 24, 2015. Presentations are to be delivered to Michael Adams at the above listed email address.
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