RFP Cover letter.pdf

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771

Reply to Attn of: 210.S March 30, 2020

TO: All Prospective Offerors

SUBJECT: Request for Proposal (RFP), Solicitation No. 80GSFC20R0036; Reaction Wheel Isolation System for the WFIRST Project

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) WFIRST Reaction Wheel Isolation System (RWIS) solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide the facilities, personnel, services, tools, equipment, and materials necessary to design, analyze, manufacture, test, and deliver the RWIS. The Statement of Work, Attachment A, describes the scope of the requirement.

This acquisition will be conducted as a full and open competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 336419 and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees.

This competitive procurement will result in a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Completion contract.

The period of performance of this contract shall be the effective date of the contract through 24 months. The anticipated contract award date is August 2020.

The contract will be performed offsite at the Contractor’s facilities.

In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by both the Government and Government Contractors, it is Goddard Center policy that all procurement-related documents be released in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Offerors shall be aware that while our procurement-related documents included in the RFP are in PDF format; the Offeror’s Price Volume proposal submitted in response to this RFP shall be in the Microsoft Office Excel format.

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 Contract Opportunities website at https://beta.SAM.gov.

Potential Offerors are requested to periodically monitor the websites for updates.

https://beta.sam.gov/

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 this requirement. 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.

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than Thursday, May 7, 2020, at 3:00 pm local time. Proposals shall be submitted electronically via NASA’s secure Large File Transfer (LFT) in accordance with Provision L.10. Offerors interested in submitting a proposal in response to this RFP must request a LFT invitation email from the Contracting Officer no later than 10 days prior to the proposal due date.

Offerors are reminded that a “Blackout Notice” for this procurement was distributed to all applicable NASA GSFC personnel concurrently with the release of the 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 Julie Janus, Contracting Officer, at Julie.a.janus@nasa.gov on or before Monday, April 13, 2020.

Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.

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

Julie Janus Contracting Officer http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html mailto:Julie.a.janus@nasa.gov