40. 80MSFC22R0015 RFP May 2, 2022.pdf

George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama 35812

Scalable Science Data Exploration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Request for Proposal

(RFP)

RFP Number:

80MSFC22R0015 Date of

Issue: May 2, 2022

National Aeronautics and Space Administration George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

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April 27, 2022

TO: All Prospective Offerors

SUBJECT: Request for Proposal (RFP), Solicitation No. 80MSFC22R0015, for

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Marshall Space Flight Center’s (MSFC) solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide the development of tools, services and platform for scalable visualization, exploration, and analysis of science data on the commercial cloud environment.

NASA will conduct this acquisition as a full and open, total small business set-aside competition.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541690 and the small business size standard is $15M or #1500 employees.

This competitive acquisition will result in a Firm-Fixed Price contract. The contract will have a total potential period of performance of five (5) years including;

Base July 18, 2022 – July 17, 2023 Option 1 July 18, 2023 - July 17, 2024 Option 2 July 18, 2024 - July 17, 2025 Option 3 July 18, 2025 - July 17, 2026 Option 4 July 18, 2026 - July 17, 2027

The anticipated contract award date is July 18, 2022 with a July 18, 2022 contract effective date.

The contract will be performed remotely, in a virtual environment at the Contractor Facility, and at such other locations as may be approved in writing by the Contracting Officer.

Potential offerors should pay close attention to all solicitation instructions; however, the following requirements list is summarized to assist in proposal development. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and the solicitation terms and conditions and provisions in sections L and M take precedence:

1. NASA has determined that this acquisition may give rise to a potential organizational conflict of interest (OCI). Offerors should refer to Section H clauses, 52.209-92 Disclosure of Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) After Contract Award52.209-94 Resolution of Organizational Conflicts of Interest, and 1852.209-71 Limitation of Future Contracting, for a description of the potential conflict(s) and any restrictions on future contracting.

2. Offerors are required to have a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code that matches the corporate address submitted with its proposal.

Offerors are encouraged to refer to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision 52.215-1, INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS–COMPETITIVE ACQUISITION, in particular paragraph (f)(4) which discusses the Government’s right to award a contract without discussions.

In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by the Government and its Contractors, NASA policy required all acquisition-related documents be released in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). While the RFP’s Cost are in PDF format, the Offeror’s Cost shall include completed in Microsoft Office Excel format with working cell formulas.

Documents related to this acquisition, including this letter, the solicitation, attachments, exhibits, any amendments, and links to online reference/technical/bidders’ library will be attainable electronically from the World Wide Web through the Government-wide point of entry website at www.SAM.gov. Potential Offerors are requested to periodically monitor the websites for updates.

NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) clause 1852.215-84, OMBUDSMAN, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html.

This RFP does not commit NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA, MSFC to procure or contract for these services. This request is not an authorization to proceed and does not authorize payment for any charges incurred by the offeror for performing any of the work called for in this solicitation.

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than 12:00 p.m.

(Central Standard Time) on June 2, 2022. Proposals for this solicitation are required to be submitted through NASA’s Enterprise File Sharing and Sync Box (EFSS Box), a FedRAMP Moderate certified platform. Potential offerors, especially those that have not previously submitted a proposal utilizing NASA’s EFSS Box, are encouraged to review the solicitation instruction entitled “Electronic Proposal Delivery - Proposal Marking and Delivery Through NASA’s EFSS Box” which provides instructions related to the submission of proposal via EFSS Box. Offerors are encouraged to check with their corporate IT staff to determine if there are firewall restrictions that would need to be addressed prior to the submission of proposal files through NASA’s EFSS Box.

All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted in writing, electronically to Rita R. James, Contracting Officer, at rita.r.james@nasa.gov on or before May 13, 2022. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.

Thank you for your support into the RFP. We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Rita R. James Contracting Officer

RITA

JAMES

Digitally signed by

RITA JAMES

Date: 2022.04.27 13:27:36 -05'00'