"" technical management cost (TMC) analysis for evaluations to include step 1 and step 2 for instruments and missions using various platforms. This study shall assess the system evaluations and…

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by NASA's Langley Research Center to Cornell Technical Services LLC, a small technology and professional services company based in Maryland. The contract requires the contractor to conduct a technical and cost analysis study of various models and tools used to estimate the costs of instrument and mission proposals for NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD). The study will assess the accuracy of these cost estimation tools and recommend improvements to the data requested in proposal submissions to increase the accuracy of cost estimates. The total ceiling value of this contract is $1,312,198.00, and it has an ultimate completion date of November 30, 2017. This contract is not set aside for any specific business category and was awarded as an unrestricted competition.

"" technical management cost (TMC) analysis for evaluations to include step 1 and step 2 for instruments and missions using various platforms. This study shall assess the system evaluations and estimation of resources (seer), price hardware and true planning (without space catalog), pcec 1.0 (NASA air force cost model), pcec 2.x (project cost estimating capability), NASA instrument cost model (nicm), nicm subsystem cost model performance, level of difficulty index (LDI), aceit (automated cost estimating integrated tools), polaris cost and schedule management, cascom (cost and schedule confidence model), schedule evaluation model (SEM), (and any further tools TBD) for use in the upcoming NASA science mission directorate (SMD) TMC evaluations for past instrument, cubesats, smallsats, balloons, suborbital reusable launch vehicles, and ISS missions of SMD announcement of opportunity (AO), and missions of opportunity (MO) proposals and csrs (concept study reports) to determine the accuracy of these models . This study shall use past proposals and csrs on selected investigations for estimating and then compare those to the actual cost on the proposals for selected instrument and mission investigations. The accuracy and error band shall be presented as a result of the study. The study must also recommend changes in the requested proposal/CSR data or other methods to increase the accuracy of estimating the cost of instrument/mission proposals.