Draft RFP Cover Letter.pdf

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TO: All Potential Offerors

SUBJECT: DRAFT Request for Proposal (DRFP), Solicitation No. 80HQTR20R0001, NASA Research and Education Support Services-II (NRESS-II)

You are invited to review and comment on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters’ (HQ) NASA Research and Education Support Services-II (NRESS-II) draft solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide professional support services, information technology support, and other related services for the NRESS program that supports the agency’s peer review life cycle and the research objectives of the customer directorates. 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 Order (RTO) requirements and their ability to effectively price each RTO.

This acquisition will be conducted as an 8(a) set-aside competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 561110 and the small business size standard is $7M.

This competitive procurement will result in an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the ability to issue Cost Plus Fixed Fee (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 firm fixed price contract or purchase order, during the 45-day period prior to the effective date of the contract.

The contract will be performed onsite at NASA Headquarters and offsite at the Contractor’s facilities.

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.

The current planned release date for the Final Request for Proposal (RFP) is on or about February 28, 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 at https://beta.sam.gov/.

Additional information can also be found on the NRESS-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 HQ is not requesting proposals. This request does not commit HQ to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate HQ 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.

Any comments regarding the DRFP should be submitted via e-mail to the Contracting Officer at amanda.j.heslep@nasa.gov, within 37 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 FBO response if the Contracting Officer determines that a response would facilitate additional understanding of the solicitation. The Government will respond via FBO to comments and/or questions received following the issuance of the Final Request for Proposal (RFP).

Amanda J. Heslep Contracting Officer

Attachments Attachment A - Statement of Work Attachment B - Direct Labor Rates, Indirect Rates, and Fixed Fee Matrices Attachment C - Financial Management Reporting Requirements Attachment G - Government Furnished Information Attachment H - Government Furnished Property Attachment I - IT Security ADL Attachment J - Contract Historical Data Attachment K - PIV Card Issuance Procedures Attachment L - Department of Labor, Wage Determination (WD)

Enclosures Enclosure 1 – IT Security Management Plan Template Enclosure 2 - GPM-Specified Non-Management Direct Labor Categories, Direct Labor Hours and Position Descriptions Enclosure 3 - Contract Historical Data

Enclosure 4 – Past Performance Questionnaire Enclosure 5 – Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP)

Exhibits Exhibits 1-11 – Cost Charts Exhibit 12 – RTO #1 Exhibit 13 – RTO #2 Exhibit 14 – RTO #3