SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- NASA Announcement of Opportunity for New Frontiers Program
- Notice Date
- 12/9/2016
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNH16ZDA011O
- Point of Contact
- Dr. Curt Niebur, Phone: (202) 358-0390
- E-Mail Address
-
curt.niebur@nasa.gov
(curt.niebur@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is releasing the Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for New Frontiers Program mission investigations. The New Frontiers Program conducts Principal Investigator (PI)-led space science investigations in SMD's planetary programs under a not-to-exceed cost cap for the PI-Managed Mission Cost (PMMC). At the conclusion of Phase A concept studies, it is planned that one New Frontiers investigation will be selected to continue into subsequent mission phases. New Frontiers Program investigations must address NASA's planetary science objectives as described in 2014 NASA Strategic Plan and the 2014 NASA Science Plan. Both documents are now available at http://science1.nasa.gov/about-us/science-strategy/. Investigations are limited to six mission themes (listed without priority): •Comet Surface Sample Return, •Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return, •Ocean Worlds (Titan and/or Enceladus), •Saturn Probe, •Trojan Tour and Rendezvous, and •Venus In Situ Explorer. Investigations may propose the use of up to three Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators MMRTG) and/or Radioisotope Heater Units (RHUs). The costs for the use of these systems and materials are included in the AO and must be included in the PMMC. The time frame for the solicitation is intended to be: Release of final AO - December 9, 2016 Preproposal Conference (target) - January 17, 2016 (target) Electronic Proposal Submittal Deadline at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time - April 28, 2017 Step-1 Selections Announced (target) - November 2017 (target) Phase A Concept Study Reports due - December 2018 Downselection of Investigation for Flight (target) - July 2019 (target) Launch Readiness Date NLT - December 31, 2025 Further information will be posted on the New Frontiers Program Acquisition Page at http://newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov/ as it becomes available. Questions may be addressed to Dr. Curt Niebur, New Frontiers Program Lead Scientist, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA, Washington, DC 20546; Tel.: (202) 358-0390; E-mail: curt.niebur@nasa.gov. Responses to all inquiries will be answered by E-mail and also posted at the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) location of the New Frontiers Program Acquisition website; anonymity of persons/institutions who submit questions will be preserved.
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