Advanced plant habitat (APH) task order 7 hardware for flight and engineering development unit (EDU) and flight support equipment 1.0 introduction the contractor shall provide carbon dioxide (CO2)…

This is a task order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) for the delivery of flight hardware to support the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) for the International Space Station (ISS). The contract provides Carbon Dioxide (CO2) bottles, Environmental Control Subsystem (ECS) filters, Ethylene and CO2 scrubbers, and Science Carrier root trays to maintain the APH flight units. This supports the Plant Habitat-01 (PH-01) science experiment planned for the ISS. The period of performance is from the task order issuance through October 31, 2017, with a potential value of $285,362.19 under a firm fixed-price delivery order contract. No small business set-aside was used for this award.

Advanced plant habitat (APH) task order 7 hardware for flight and engineering development unit (EDU) and flight support equipment 1.0 introduction the contractor shall provide carbon dioxide (CO2) bottles (2.6), environmental control subsystem inlet and outlet filters (2.7), ethylene scrubber (2.7.1), carbon dioxide scrubber (2.7.1), and science carrier (2.8) flight hardware to support the maintenance of both flight units after the first use on ISS and on the ground which is a pre-operation to the start of the first science experiment (PH-01). The items provided for the advanced plant habitat flight and EDU hardware shall be in accordance with the requirements in system requirements document (SRD) for the plant habitat (PH) PH-R0001. Period of performance: issuance of task order through october 31, 2017. 2.0 hardware and flight support equipment the contractor shall provide flight ready hardware consisting of: 2 CO2 bottles, 2 ECS inlet and 2 outlet filters (total for 2 ECS modules), 1 ethylene scrubber, 1 carbon dioxide scrubber, and 2 science carrier root trays with 2 spare oxygen sensors per tray. (note: the oxygen sensors should be tested by the contractor prior to accepting them from the vendor. Also, the contractor must use extreme caution while handling the sensors during assembly and test.) 3.0 deliverables-milestone schedule 1.) subject to other limitations and conditions specified in this contract, milestone payments shall be made to the contractor upon delivery and acceptance of the milestone events described in the below table. 2.) the contractor shall not be entitled to payment of a request for milestone payment prior to successful accomplishment and acceptance by the government of the milestone event. The contracting officer shall determine whether the milestone event or performance criterion for which payment is requested has been successfully accomplished and accepted by the government in accordance with the terms of the contract. The contracting officer may, at any time, require the contractor to substantiate the successful performance of any event or performance criterion which has been or is represented as being payable.