Final NASA Research Announcement (NRA) Cover Letter.pdf

July 26, 2024 TO: All Prospective Offerors

SUBJECT: Final NASA Research Announcement (NRA), Solicitation No.80GRC024R0017, for

Small Satellite Cross-Link Systems (SS-CLS)

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center’s (GRC) SS-CLS solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is focused on the demonstration and characterization of a V-Band cross-link capability to enable NASA to assess the potential for V-Band cross-links to enable low latency transmission of large volumes of science data and to provide opportunities for an academic institution(s) to perform experiments using the V-Band cross-link capability.

NASA will conduct this acquisition as a small business set-aside competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541715 and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees.

This competitive acquisition will result in a Firm-fixed Price (FFP) contract.

The anticipated contract award date and effective date is on or about September 30, 2024. The contract will be performed offsite at the Contractor’s facilities.

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 take precedence:

1. NASA GRC appreciates the comments received in response to the release of the Draft NRA.

These comments resulted in improvements to the quality and content of the overall NRA.

Offerors should review the NRA in its entirety, as its content has changed from the Draft NRA version.

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

3. Offerors are encouraged to closely review Provision “Electronic Submission of Proposals – Proposal Marking and Delivery through NASA box” and the updated Attachment D – EFSS- Box-Offeror-Proposal-Submission-Instructions. All proposals and attachments must be submitted through NASA Box in response to this solicitation.

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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration John H. Glenn Research Center Lewis Field Cleveland, OH 44135-3191

(PDF). However, the NRA’s Price Volume exhibits are in Excel format. Accordingly, the Offeror’s Price Volume proposal shall include completed Price Volume exhibits 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 https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/Procurement-Ombuds- Comp-Advocate-Listing.pdf.

This NRA does not commit NASA GRC to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA GRC 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 5:00 PM ET on August 9, 2024. 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.

In accordance with NFS 1815.201(f), a “Blackout Notice” has been issued to NASA personnel. All inquiries/communications pertaining to this acquisition shall be directed only to the Contracting Officer listed below.

All questions regarding this NRA should be submitted in writing, electronically to Tyler Braden, Contracting Officer, at tyler.r.braden@nasa.gov on or before 5:00pm ET on August 2, 2024. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.

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

Tyler Braden Contracting Officer

Tyler Braden

Digitally signed by Tyler Braden Date: 2024.07.26 06:22:47 -04'00'