"" other functions: mars 2020 investigations (MARS2020) proposal evaluation the national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) science mission directorate (SMD) released an announcement of…

"" other functions: mars 2020 investigations (MARS2020) proposal evaluation the national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) science mission directorate (SMD) released an announcement of opportunity (AO) entitled mars 2020 investigations to solicit proposals for investigations for a space flight mission to mars, to be launched in july/august 2020. The overall mars 2020 objectives to explore and quantitatively assess mars as a potential habitat for life, to search for signs of past life, to collect carefully selected samples for possible future return to earth, and to prepare for future human exploration of mars. The mars 2020 investigations AO solicits flight investigations for which each principal investigator is responsible for a complete space flight investigation, including instrument hardware, mission operations, and data analysis. Participation in this AO is open to all categories of organizations (U.S. And non-U.S.), including educational, industrial, and not-for-profit organizations, federally funded research and development centers, university affiliated research centers, NASA centers, the jet propulsion laboratory, and other government agencies. Principal investigators are responsible for, and may assemble their investigation teams from, any of these organizations. The purpose of this task order is to provide technical expertise and administrative support to the NASA science office for mission assessments (soma) (located at NASA larc) on the technical, management, and cost (TMC) feasibility of the investigation implementation, including cost risk evaluation of proposals submitted as a result of the mars 2020 investigations (MARS2020) solicitation. MARS2020 solicits two types of investigations: surface science investigations and exploration technology investigations. For each proposal evaluated, the contractor will provide a form c, which is the form that serves as the report of the TMC evaluation results, and a cost evaluation summary, which documents the cost assessment associated with each form c. The TMC evaluation is performed according to criteria factors c-1 to c-5 defined in the mars 2020 investigations solicitation: NNH13ZDA018O announcement of opportunity (AO).