99 -- NEUTRAL BUOYANCY LABORATORY/SPACE VEHICLE MOCKUP FACILITY (NBL/SVMF)

Notice Date

July 6, 2001

Contracting Office

NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH

ZIP Code

00000

Solicitation Number

9-BH13-46-01-26P

Response Due

July 31, 2001

Point of Contact

Keith D. Hutto, Contracting Officer, Phone (281) 483-4165, Fax (281) 244-5337, Email keith.d.hutto1@jsc.nasa.gov

E-Mail Address

Keith D. Hutto (keith.d.hutto1@jsc.nasa.gov)

Description

NASA/JSC is hereby soliciting information for potential sources and seeking capabilities from large business, small business(SB), small disadvantaged business(SDB), HUB Zone and women-owned small businesses (WOB) for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for the anticipated competition of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory/Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (NBL/SVMF) Contract. The potential contract will combine support activities for the NBL and the SVMF. This support is currently being provided through a single contract. The scope of work to be accomplished is to operate, maintain, and provide sustaining engineering for two key human space flight training facilities located at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston TX. The facilities are the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) and the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF). The NBL is a part of the Sonny Carter Training Facility (SCTF). The SCTF is located on Space Center Boulevard, near Ellington airfield, approximately 5 miles from JSC. The NBL provides neutral buoyancy support to the Space Shuttle Program (SSP), International Space Station (ISS), and future space programs. Extravehicular activity (spacewalk) and intravehicular activity (inside a pressurized on-orbit vehicle) simulations are performed at the NBL in support of astronaut crew training, real-time mission support, procedure development and verification, crew capabilities and workload limit evaluations, hardware design, validation, and development, Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) training, and crew bailout training. The facility centers on a 202-foot long, 102-foot wide, and 40 -foot deep-water tank that has standard filtering, chlorinating, and pumping subsystems as a part of its water treatment system. Additional NBL systems include an environmental control system, a breathing gas system, a closed circuit television system, a communications system, multiple crane systems, robotic systems, a hyperbaric treatment chamber system, and a diver voice communication system. The facility also contains adequate administrative space and provisions for technical support functions, Extravehicular activity (EVA) suit support functions, test control room support, utility support, mockup support, and medical support. The SVMF, located in Building 9N and 9NW at the JSC, contains a full scale Space Station mockup, three Space Shuttle trainers, Russian mockups, two air bearing facilities, a partial gravity simulator, and various part-task mockups and trainers. The High Bay area of Building 9N is 57 feet high and covers 21,250 square feet. Two overhead bridge cranes each have one 20-ton capacity hook and one 5-ton capacity hook. Pressurized breathing air, for use in space suits, is available from K-bottles located in the building. Two large suit-changing rooms are located in the central part of the building. Audio and video links exist between most facilities in the SVMF and other buildings on site. An elevated enclosed walkway along the north wall provides visitors a view of the daily activities. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in the CBD and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offerors' responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. While the Government acknowledges that many companies have the capability to perform any one or even several of these functions, the Government expects to contract with a firm that has the overall capability to manage this complex effort, including critical services. The Government is requesting from interested large, SB's, SDB's, WOB's, and HUB Zone businesses a capability statement of three pages or less indicating the ability to perform all or parts of the effort described herein. JSC is an ISO 9000 and OSHA VPP Star certified site; and consequently, interested parties will need to address experience working within these environments Responses must include the following: name and address of firm, size of business; average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees; ownership; whether they are large, small, small disadvantaged, 8(a), HUBZone, and/or woman-owned; number of years in business; affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); list of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact -- address and phone number). Please advise if the requirement is considered to be a commercial or commercial-type product. A commercial item is defined in Internet "Note A". This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. The Government reserves the right to consider a small business or 8(a) set-aside based on responses hereto. All responses shall be submitted to Keith Hutto no later than July 31, 2001. In responding reference 9-BH13-46-01-26P. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html

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