SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE MISSION INSTRUMENT MISSION OPERATIONS AND GROUNDSYSTEM ELEMENTS
- Notice Date
- 1/6/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Marshall SpaceFlight Center, AL 35812
- ZIP Code
- 35812
- Solicitation Number
- RFINNM16ZPS001L
- Archive Date
- 1/6/2017
- Point of Contact
- Jennifer B. McCaghren, Contracting Officer, Phone 256-961-7454, Email jennifer.b.mccaghren@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Jennifer B. McCaghren
(jennifer.b.mccaghren@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- In anticipation of an upcoming NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO) in 2017, NASA MSFC is seeking information from interested parties regarding solar science instrument development and mission operations support. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), the information requested is for planning purposes only and is not intended to bind the Government; is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contractual agreement; nor will the Government pay for information solicited. This RFI is subject to FAR 52.215-3. This RFI is issued for information and planning purposes. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal. However, this RFI serves as the first step in the competitive process described in the NASA FAR under paragraph 1872.308 for selecting an industrial partner as a team member. Please note, at this juncture, no solicitation exists; therefore, please do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/MSFC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=62 It is the potential respondents responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. The mission system and instrument Elements described below are required to enable a Principal Investigator (PI) led Heliophysics mission. The goal of this mission is to observe the sun in the near ultra-violet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and transmit images to designated ground stations for scientific evaluation. Concept studies are currently under development by the NASA team. This RFI seeks interested parties and openly solicits potential partners by requesting specific information that will be used to determine a teaming relationship for developing a NASA proposal in response to the upcoming AO. NASA envisions a teaming arrangement where each partner will provide one or more of the following mission elements: Element 1: Telescope.Provide a spacecraft-based solar instrument telescope and image stabilization system. System should provide capability to raster the center of the field of view through approximately 30 arcseconds with negligible impact on spatial and spectral resolution. Element 2: Detectors:Provide up to four (4) large format (>50 megapixel) space qualified cameras with sensitivity in ultraviolet down to 260nm, read noise below 25e/pixel, and frame rate greater than 20Hz. Element 3: Slitjaw Optical System. Provide sub-arcsecond spatial resolution with comparable on-axis imaging performance for the full field image in ultraviolet electromagnetic spectrum near 280nm, including calibration, installation, performance verification and validation, and post-launch engineering and science operations support. Element 4: Mission Operations.Provide mission-level operations support and ground systems capabilities, including remote spacecraft engineering support, remote instrument engineering support, remote science operations, and synergy with other solar instrument operations. Element 5: Science and Data Center. Provide science data storage and processing services, science operations support, with expertise in conversion of raw science data to quantified physical measurements and the associated science data products to include inversions of spectropolarimetric images. The purpose of this RFI is to identify qualified sources that are interested in providing these types of instrument, mission operations, and ground system capabilities for potential use in the subject missions. Potential partners will be identified from the responses received from this request. Responses to this RFI will be used by NASA to evaluate potential Element providers to support a mission launched in 2021 2022, and sustain a Phase E mission duration of 3 years. NASA intends to select a single partner for each of these Elements based on these inputs. Responses from all interested parties, including non-U.S. organizations, are solicited. Note that NASA cannot reimburse costs for supporting the mission proposal development. Recognizing that any collaboration between NASA and a non-U.S. organization must be consistent with NASA's no-exchange-of-funds policy where each nation is responsible for its own activities, any non-U.S. response should identify the source of funding and discuss the status of funding commitments. It is not NASAs intent to publicly disclose proprietary information obtained through this RFI. To the full extent that it is protected pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act and other laws and regulations, information identified by a respondent as Proprietary or Confidential will be kept confidential. This presolicitation synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information submitted in response.Respondents will not be notified of the results. Please submit comments no later than 2:00 p.m. central/standard time on January 15, 2016 to Jennifer B. Mccaghren email address is jennifer.b.mccaghren@nasa.gov. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/p ub_library/Omb.html.
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- Record
- SN03983931-W 20160108/160106234357-8556fb37bfd6db6d240a1b6315f30e00 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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