SEAS II DRFP Cover Letter FINAL.pdf

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771

September 18, 2020

Reply to Attn of: 210.M

TO: All Potential Offerors

SUBJECT: DRAFT Request for Proposal (DRFP), Solicitation No. 80GSFC20R0037 Systems Engineering Advanced Services II (SEAS II)

You are invited to review and comment on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC’s) Systems Engineering Advanced Services II (SEAS II) draft solicitation to support the Engineering Technology Directorate (ETD). The principle purpose of this requirement is to acquire Mission and Instrument Systems Engineering (M&ISE) services for the Mission Engineering and System Analysis Division (MESAD) and related ETD organizations. M&ISE services includes all aspects of mission and instrument formulation and implementation for systems, science instruments, observatories, launch, ground system, spacecraft, and suborbital craft (e.g., aircraft, sounding rockets, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)), balloons; Spacecraft Propulsion and Fluid Systems Engineering; Services for the following: free-flying spacecraft, suborbital craft payloads and Space Station payloads. The Statement of Work, Attachment A, describes the scope of the requirement.

Potential Offerors are encouraged to comment on all aspects of the draft solicitation, including the requirements, schedules, proposal instructions, and evaluation approaches.

Potential Offerors should identify unnecessary or inefficient requirements. Potential Offerors are encouraged to comment on any perceived safety, occupational health, security (including information technology security), environmental, export control, and/or other programmatic risk issues associated with performance of the work. Potential Offerors are also encouraged to comment on the clarity of the Representative Task Orders (RTO) requirements.

This acquisition will be conducted as an 8(a) set-aside competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541715 and the small business size standard is 1000 employees.

This competitive procurement will result in a Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee (CPFF) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) requirement with the ability to issue CPFF task orders.

The contract will have an effective ordering period of 5 years from the contract effective date. Phase-In will be conducted under a separate contract or purchase order during the 60-day period prior to the effective date of the contract.

The contract will be performed onsite at GSFC, Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), Contractor’s facilities, and other NASA Centers or as specified in task orders. The Government will make available existing Installation-Accountable Government Property (IAGP) for onsite contract performance and Government Furnished Property (GFP) for offsite use at the Contractor’s facility.

Please note, a Top Secret clearance is required for this procurement in accordance with the DD Form 254, Contract Security Classification Specification. Interested vendors shall have an established Top Secret facilities clearance by the due date for receipt of proposals and this clearance shall be maintained throughout the life of the contract. For proposals submitted as Joint Ventures (JV), without a facility clearance granted in the name of the JV, each of the JV members must possess a Top Secret facilities clearance in place by the due date for receipt of proposals.

This acquisition may give rise to an Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI). Accordingly, the attention of prospective Offerors is invited to FAR Subpart 9.5 --Organizational Conflicts of Interest. The Contracting Officer (CO) shall not award a contract until NASA determines any OCI is reasonably resolved. The proposed OCI Plan shall be consistent with all other areas of the proposal. Material inconsistencies between the OCI Plan and other proposal areas may render the proposal invalid, resulting in an unacceptable proposal that is ineligible for award.

The current planned release date for the Final Request for Proposal (RFP) is on or about, mid November 2020, with proposals being due approximately 30 calendar days later.

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 Government wide point of entry website at https://www.beta.sam.gov.

Additional information can also be found on the SEAS II online Reference Library at:

https://elibrary.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

Potential Offerors are requested to periodically monitor the website 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 DRFP is not a solicitation and NASA GSFC is not requesting proposals. This request does not commit GSFC to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate 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 DRFP.

https://www.beta.sam.gov/ https://elibrary.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html

Any comments regarding the DRFP should be submitted via e-mail to the Contract Specialist at Kristal.Kerr@nasa.gov, within 20 calendar days after the release of this DRFP. The Government will consider all comments received in preparation of the Final RFP. To the extent a comment leads the Government to revise the acquisition approach or requirements, the change will be reflected in the Final RFP. Some DRFP questions and comments may receive a posted response via beta.sam.gov if the Contracting Officer determines that a response would facilitate additional understanding of the solicitation.

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Jasmine N. J. Taylor Contracting Officer