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A -- Partnership Opportunity Document (POD) for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Heliophysics Mission Opportunities Instrument High Voltage Power Supply (HVPS) dated July 24, 2017
- Notice Date
- 7/24/2017
- 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, Maryland, 20771, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NASA-GSFC-Partnership-Opportunity-Document-For-Heliophysics-Mission-Opportunities-Instrument-HVPS
- Point of Contact
- Caleb Principe, Phone: 301-286-8726, Arthur Jacques, Phone: 301-286-4725
- E-Mail Address
-
caleb.m.principe@nasa.gov, arthur.d.jacques@nasa.gov
(caleb.m.principe@nasa.gov, arthur.d.jacques@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Partnership Opportunity Document (POD) for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Heliophysics Mission Opportunities Instrument High Voltage Power Supply (HVPS) dated July 24, 2017 1.0 Introduction and Scope This partnership opportunity is for NASA Heliophysics Mission Opportunities in 2017. NASA's GSFC is seeking partners for spaceflight instrument high voltage power supply (HVPS) development for potential proposals to these opportunities. NASA's GSFC mission teams will be submitting proposals in response to the Solar Terrestrial Probes Program Announcement for the draft Announcement of Opportunity (AO) released on April 7, 2017. This opportunity will be a two-step process, with the first proposal response primarily focused on the scientific merit and technical feasibility of the proposed mission and its associated scientific investigation. The initial submissions will then 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, proposals will be expanded and refined to detail the entire end-to-end life cycle concept, with greater attention to engineering implementation, cost, and schedule. The draft AO, "Solar Terrestrial Probes #5/Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)" can be found on the NSPIRES site: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId={64528474-0E93-C0C1-8D1D-E4CF77E08AAE}&path=open The time frame for the solicitation is intended to be: AO Release Date...............................................................NET July 2017 Preproposal Conference (target)......................................AO Release + ~3 weeks Notification Proposal Deadline.........................................AO Release + ~4-6 weeks Electronic Proposal Submittal Deadline........................... NET October 2017 (AO Release + 3 mos) Letters of Commitment Due (with Proposal).....................AO Release + ~3 weeks Deadline for Receipt of Proposal on CD-ROMs at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time..................................................Proposal Deadline + 4 days Step-1 Selections Announced (target)...............................AO Release + 10 months Initiate Phase A Concept Studies (target)..........................April 2018 Phase A Concept Study Reports Due (target)....................April 2019 Down-selection of Investigation(s) for Flight (target)........October 2019 Launch Readiness Date....................................................... NLT December 2024 Responses to this partnership opportunity are solicited from any interested and qualified teaming partners to help prepare NASA's GSFC concepts for proposal submittal and to provide a flight qualified instrument HVPS components should the instrument be selected for flight. For this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the initial submission, there will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners. Funding will be available for Phase A and subsequent phases should the investigation be approved to continue through the mission-defined gates for flight. The documentation resulting from this action, will be utilized to support the funding document for Phases A through flight. NASA's GSFC reserves the option to not select any teaming partners under this POD offering. 2.0 Overview NASA's GSFC is interested in finding partners to support the development of a variety of HVPSs' required for development of a heliophysics instrument. Multiple copies of each supply will be required. Additional information and detailed requirements will be available to those Notice of Interest respondents (see 6.0). 3.0 Pre-selection Support 3.1 Initial Step 1 Proposal Support SOW: It is expected that the selected respondent will provide support using their own resources to help develop the design concept, and provide information for the proposal in the area of the HVPS components. This will involve meeting with the scientists and the overall instrument engineering team to help define the end-to-end performance requirements, including interfaces to the various subsystems and the spacecraft; to define the flight instrument electronic architecture; to identify study topics; and to predict performance. This will include cost estimation for all development phases. The period of performance for this interval is the timeframes shown above from POD selection to initial proposal submission. To the extent possible, the leveraging of existing designs is desired. 3.2 Phase A Concept Study (Step 2 Proposal) Support SOW: If the instruments are selected for Phase A studies, the proposal team will receive funding by means of a contractual document, to conduct a Phase A study and submit a detailed Concept Study Report (CSR) to NASA. The respondent will be expected to contribute to designing, documenting, and costing the HVPSs', fabrication, integration and testing for inclusion in the final CSR. The cost should delineate non-recurring & recurring cost for multiple unit builds. The respondent providing the HVPS system will be allocated a portion of this funding to perform trade studies as identified in the initial proposal. The period of performance for this interval is detailed in the above timelines. 3.3 POD Response Instructions The respondent shall: 1)Demonstrate understanding and extensive experience in the design, fabrication, integration and testing of HVPSs for spaceflight instruments for heliophysics science applications. Highlight particularly critical or challenging areas for the design of the various HVPSs, specifically stability and noise requirements, harnessing approach, or Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE). 2) The respondent shall: •Provide a technical summary/description of the proposed hardware including relevant heritage, •Explain what types of capabilities and cost-effective implementation approaches the system provides for the intended target instrument(s). 3)Identify available design and modeling capabilities required to support development of the HVPS electronics, harnessing, and associated EGSE. Demonstrate the level of experience in building similar spaceflight electronics, harnessing, associated EGSE, and the relevant development processes. 4)Provide any recommended potential study topics related to the electronics development. 5)Indicate what level of resources would be allocated to the proposal phase of support. •Discuss skills that will be provided and ideas at the level of conceptual design and important analysis and trade studies that will be needed to develop the system. 6)Identify the pertinent instruments for which the respondent has provided support for proposal writing in the area of space flight HVPS design, fabrication, integration and testing: •Provide data on scope of the electronics design, the role that the incumbent played in the proposal process, and the portions of the proposal the respondent written or provided assistance in writing and provide a customer reference Point of Contact (POC) •Describe how this proposal role mapped to their role in the end instrument and if the scope changed explain why. 4.0 Development Support SOW: At the end of Phase A another down-select occurs. If the mission is selected for development and launch, the respondent will be responsible for the design, development, and test of the proposed HVPSs. The respondent is responsible for: identifying system requirements and providing all aspects of the system (either directly, through purchasing or teaming arrangements). The period of performance for this interval is expected to last approximately 30-45 months. The date will depend upon selection timelines and budget allocations. POD Response Instructions for Development Support The respondent shall: 1)Describe your team's experience in similar spaceflight systems applications. 2)Identify available design and modeling capabilities required to support development of HVPS designs. 3)Identify fabrication and testing facilities that will be required to support development and test of the HVPSs. 4)Identify which missions the respondent has successfully supported in this capacity and provide a customer reference POC. 5)Provide information on recent similar HVPSs designed and delivered, and how that experience is applicable to the mission. Basic information on scope of work, and how well the fielded components met the requirements (cost and technical) and how well the respondent met the proposed schedules. 6)Provide a very Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimate and timeline for the scope of the design, fabrication, and testing of the system, harnessing and associated EGSE. This ROM will not be considered a binding commitment, but will serve as a consideration during the partnership evaluation. The respondent should comment on the reasonableness of the placeholder cost and provide historic justification for the ROM. 7)List ideas and methods of keeping costs low and the risk of cost growth low, including how the respondent would utilize heritage designs and components or existing open market hardware to minimize costs and provide a more robust system. Identify cost savings or efficiencies of designing, fabricating, testing similar. 5.0 Additional Information The respondent may provide any additional information on any other pertinent expertise, and identify the relevant details of similar systems. Also, identify any other ideas and related activities, which the respondent's organization is or has been involved with, and the significance of that activity to the POD instrument(s). 6.0 General Instructions for POD Response Potential respondents are asked to contact the GSFC Point of Contact as soon as possible after release of this document with a Notice Of Interest (NOI) (intentionally not called notice of intent). The NOI should be received within 5 business days after publication of this action. This contact does not create an obligation to respond to the POD, but allows GSFC to disseminate more details on the parameters of the HVPSs being considered and provide answers to questions from potential partners. All NOI respondents will receive further details on the missions and requirements that will facilitate a focused response. These details are competition sensitive and not to be shared outside the teams necessary to prepare a full response. All questions and answers will be sent to those who responded to the Notice of Interest, while the source of the questions shall be held confidential. Questions and answers that contain information unique to a respondent's proprietary approach will not be shared if they are identified as such. The answers provided to all qualified NOI responders are vital to focused responses. Questions can be sent to the contact listed below via email. For purposes of this partnership opportunity, the primary contact is Caleb Principe, Caleb.M.Principe@nasa.gov, 301-286-8726. The back-up contact is Art Jacques, Arthur.D.Jacques@nasa.gov, 301-286-4725. Responses to the POD shall: 1)Be in a presentation format (viewgraphs) that shall not exceed 30 pages. The font size for the text shall be no smaller than 12 point. 2)Address all requirements noted in sections 3.0 through 7.0 of this document. Responses will be treated as proprietary information and controlled as such. The respondents shall deliver the requested information in presentation format. Final presentation packages must be received by 4:00 pm EDT, August 21, 2017. Presentations are to be delivered electronically to Caleb Principe at the above listed email address, and also cc: the back-up contact Art Jacques at the above listed address. 7.0 Selection Criteria for Awarding Partnership Opportunity Selection criteria will be consistent with the desire to encourage cost effective partnerships between the Government and Industry. The information requested in Section 7.0 will allow the evaluators to determine how well the responses are appropriate to the specific opportunities. Selection Criteria Proposal/Pre-selection Support (30 points) •Experience (and Team skills) and past performance in proposal phases •Resource commitment •Identification and description of key critical areas •Understanding and addressing general requirements and needs for the proposed system on the targeted instrument(s) for which it is intended. Provide a discussion of the assumptions made and capabilities. Clarify what specific operations, reliability and environmental requirements exist. Recommend design studies. Development Support (70 points) •Reasonableness of cost and schedule estimates. Reasonable approaches to saving costs or schedule efficiencies by co-developing multiple flight electronic systems will be highly considered •Experience and past performance in development phases •Experience and heritage with respect to similar space flight hardware. Experience developing and implementing similar space flight hardware is a minimum requirement •Completeness of identification of system functions by instrument development phase •Cost control measures •Reasonableness of design and modeling capabilities to support the effort •Reasonableness of fabrication and testing facilities to support the effort •Mass of the proposed system (electronics and harnessing) •Power efficiency of the proposed system (electronics) including thermal management design •Efficiency of communications approach (commands and data handling) •Ability of system to meet or simplify other instrument requirements or challenges the respondent identifies 8.0 Acronym List AOAnnouncement of Opportunity CSRConcept Study Report EDTEastern Daylight Time EGSEElectrical Ground Support Equipment GSFCGoddard Space Flight Center HVPSHigh Voltage Power Supply NETNot Earlier Than NLTNo Later Than POCPoint of Contact PODPartnership Opportunity Document ROMRough Order of Magnitude SOWStatement Of Work
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