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TO: All Prospective Offerors

SUBJECT: Request for Proposal (RFP), Solicitation No. 80GSFC19R0002, for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Inertial Reference Unit (IRU).

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) PACE IRU solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide an inertial reference unit for the PACE spacecraft which is targeted to launch in 2022-2023. The IRU shall provide three axis rate information to the PACE Guidance, Navigation and

Control (GNC) System using flight-qualified high-grade inertial sensors and it is intended for use as a high accuracy, fine resolution altitude reference.

This acquisition will be conducted as a full and open competition. The North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334511 and the small business size standard is

1250 employees.

This competitive procurement will result in a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract. The anticipated contract award date is in February 2019 with a February 2019 contract effective date.

The contract will be performed offsite at the contractor’s facility.

In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by both the Government and Government

Contractors, it is now Goddard Center policy that all procurement-related documents be released in

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Should any issues arise with the conversion, please contact the undersigned.

All documents related to this procurement, including this letter, the solicitation, attachments, exhibits, and any amendments will be attainable electronically from the World Wide Web through the Federal

Business Opportunities (FBO) website at https://www.fbo.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.

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.

This RFP does not commit NASA GSFC to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA

GSFC to procure or contract for these services. This request shall not be construed as authorization to proceed with, or be paid for charges incurred by performing any of the work called for in this solicitation.

https://www.fbo.gov/ http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than January 7, 2019, 4:00 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time. Be advised, in accordance with Provision 4.1.2, Offerors need to encourage their references to submit their Past Performance Questionnaires directly to the Contracting Officer no later than the closing date of this solicitation listed above.

Offerors are reminded that a “Blackout Notice” for this procurement was distributed to all applicable

NASA GSFC personnel concurrently with the release of the Final RFP to Industry. Therefore, all communications pertaining to this procurement shall be directed only to the Contracting Officer listed below.

All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted in writing, electronically to Joel Rivera, Contract

Specialist, at joel.rivera@nasa.gov on or before December 21, 2018. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.

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