Attachment A - CPSS PPC II Sources Sought Requirements.pdf

SERVICE AREAS

Project Planning & Control (PP&C)

1. Performs core services for the following NASA Centers:

• Ames Research Center (ARC) – Mountain View, CA

• Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) – Edwards, CA

• Glenn Research Center (GRC) – Cleveland, OH

• Goddard Space Flight Center (GFSC) – Prince George, MD

• Headquarters (HQ), NASA – Washington, D.C.

• Johnson Space Center (JSC) – Houston, TX

• Kennedy Space Center (KSC) – Kennedy Space Center, FL

• Langley Research Center (LaRC) – Hampton, VA

• Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) – Huntsville, AL

• Stennis Space Center (SSC) – Bay St. Louis, MS

2. Potential to perform Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) services for the following

NASA Centers:

• Glenn Research Center (GRC) – Cleveland, OH

• Goddard Space Flight Center (GFSC) – Prince George, MD

• Headquarters (HQ), NASA – Washington, D.C.

• Johnson Space Center (JSC) – Houston, TX

• Kennedy Space Center (KSC) – Kennedy Space Center, FL

• Langley Research Center (LaRC) – Hampton, VA

• Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) – Huntsville, AL

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

1. Performs core and IDIQ services for MSFC.

2. Potential to perform core and/or IDIQ services for the following NASA Centers:

• Glenn Research Center (GRC) – Cleveland, OH

• Goddard Space Flight Center (GFSC) – Prince George, MD

• Headquarters (HQ), NASA – Washington, D.C.

• Johnson Space Center (JSC) – Houston, TX

• Kennedy Space Center (KSC) – Kennedy Space Center, FL

• Langley Research Center (LaRC) – Hampton, VA

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Program Planning & Control (PP&C)

The PP&C technical requirements include the following disciplines:

1. PP&C Integration

2. Earned Value Management (EVM)

3. Cost Estimating

4. Cost Analysis

5. Scheduling

PP&C Integration

The PP&C Integration discipline includes programmatic services supporting managers and decision makers for all aspects of program performance, including planning, budgeting, scheduling, cost control, earned value, full cost accounting/budgeting implementation, and workforce tracking and analysis.

• Provides integration of all program/project PP&C activities such as program management, cost estimating, earned value management, resource management, contract management, scheduling, risk management, and configuration and data management.

• Supports the development and execution of program/project and/or center plans, identification and analysis of the resource commitments/requirements necessary to achieve technical progress and related schedule milestones.

• Supports the annual Program, Planning, Budget and Execution (PPBE) process.

• Supports the development of requirements for integrated reporting tools for program/projects that include technical, cost, schedule, earned value, and risk analysis.

• Assists with “what-if” scenario analyses and work-around planning.

• Provides recommendations on alternatives or “make-or-buy” analysis and planning.

• Provides recommendations for the development/execution of business plans and strategic plans.

• Provides analysis and integration of data to evaluate present project status and long range planning.

• Provides preparation and input for conferences, meetings, and program/project and/or center reviews.

• Provides support to the development and maintenance of program/project Work Breakdown

Structure (WBS) and WBS dictionary.

• Provides Risk Management skills to support managers and decision makers with information for all aspects of program/project performance.

Earned Value Management (EVM)

The EVM discipline provides support in the area of EVM analysis and processes including the Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) process per American National Standards Institute/Electronic Industries Alliance (ANSI/EIA) 748, Earned Value Management System.

• Provides support for the development of the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) for NASA in-house projects.

• Provides benchmarking analysis and reporting as related to functional requirements on industry business systems, tools and standards.

• Supports programs/projects and/or center in determining the feasibility for programs/projects achieving approved cost, schedule/trend analysis, earned value, technical requirements, and integration of associated risks into the PMB.

• Supports verification, assessment, auditing of selected programmatic data, written executive summaries, long and short-range forecasts, technical impacts, and corrective action plans.

• Evaluates compliance with applicable policies and procedures in support of EVM and scheduling

(ANSI/EIA-748).

• Provides training and assistance to NASA users of EVM tools.

o Gives guidance on general user questions.

o Creates new user accounts.

o Conducts monthly maintenance on contractor EVM data by import/export data into tools.

Cost Estimating & Cost Analysis

The Cost Estimating and Cost Analysis disciplines provide support to programs/projects and/or centers in determining life-cycle costs of programs/projects. Also provide independent cost assessments of on-going projects.

• Provides life cycle cost estimates, cost risk analyses, and joint cost-schedule risk analyses.

• Supports detailed design trades and engineering change order assessments with cost estimates.

• Supports data collection of cost data set development activities.

• Supports project unique cost analyses to address specific project needs.

• Supports engineering economic studies and cost/benefit studies using discounted cash flow analysis.

• Collects cost, technical, programmatic, and workforce data on prioritized data collection targets.

• Collects data from contractors, project offices, vendors, and subcontractors as necessary to facilitate data analysis normalization.

• Develops project notebooks documenting the analysis process, procedures, and results.

• Identifies and prioritizes data collection targets with a focus on incorporating Cost Analysis Data

Requirements (CADRe) data on recently completed projects.

• Collects and documents project data in the NASA CADRe document.

• Performs research into improving NASA’s estimating and analysis capabilities.

• Develops modified, new, and innovative techniques for estimating the cost of commercial space systems.

• Provides recommendations and advice on analytical techniques and approaches to solve difficult analysis problems.

• Provides unique cost estimation methods and analytical capabilities.

• Enables affordability initiatives through cost estimates and analyses.

• Develops spreadsheet models that can be used to perform commercial business case analyses including the calculation of common financial metrics such as Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Return on Investment (ROI).

• Awareness of the latest research in the field of cost estimating and analysis.

These disciplines provide support for the Project Cost Estimating Capability (PCEC) model. PCEC is a Microsoft Excel-based cost model using a set of algorithms that relate cost to technical and programmatic inputs. PCEC is used to estimate the cost of Design, Development, Test and Evaluation (DDT&E) and flight hardware items at any work breakdown structure (WBS) level from component to system level. It also estimates the integration cost of all items at the subsystem to system level of assembly including

Integration Assembly and Checkout, System Test Operations, System Test Hardware, Ground Support Equipment, System Engineering and Integration, and Program Management.

• Provides PCEC training, training materials and user manuals to users throughout NASA and supporting Industry.

• Responds to questions regarding PCEC methodologies, usage, and software.

• Maintains and distributes two separate versions of the PCEC software: Government Only and

Contractor.

o The Government Only version of the model makes all historical data, unabridged mission resumes, and cost sheets removed from the model. The mission resumes are also sanitized so as not to include any sensitive data.

o The Government Only and Contractor versions provide the same Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs).

• Reviews applications for PCEC access and refers acceptable applications to the Government for approval.

• Incorporates new and innovative cost estimating techniques, new project data, and other improvements into PCEC.

• Analyzes and normalizes project data to support the development of cost estimation and analysis techniques, including improvement of the PCEC CERs.

These disciplines also provide support to the Resource Data Storage and Retrieval (REDSTAR) library located at MSFC in Huntsville, AL. The REDSTAR library is a storage location for over 40,000 documents containing cost, schedule, technical, and programmatic data on NASA and non-NASA projects, along with studies, cost estimates, and other documents of interest to the NASA cost estimating community. A library reference system (LRS) is used to catalog and search the documents. Access is limited to U.S. Government personnel and approved government support contractors.

• Operates and maintains the online portion of the REDSTAR library, to include digitization of source documentation.

• Collects, catalogs (by title, keyword, program, mission type, element, and a host of lower level parameter), and organizes new and existing REDSTAR documents.

• Provides research support to REDSTAR users.

• Administers access to REDSTAR website.

• Provides maintenance of existing data sources and contracts (libraries, universities, nonprofit organizations, hardware manufacturer and Government agencies) and develops new sources of data for corresponding contracts to continuously update the system.

Scheduling

The scheduling discipline provides support to programs/projects and/or centers in in the area of schedule development, maintenance, and assessment.

• Develops and maintains resource-loaded, network logic driven schedules, and identifies the schedule critical path.

• Provides cost and workforce projections through the use of resource-loaded schedules as part of the Operating/Phasing Plan development.

• Conducts “health checks” on the integrated Project schedule and provides results of the analysis.

• Provides schedule training and assistance throughout NASA.

• Provides support for the development of schedule risk analyses and joint cost and schedule risk analyses as required.

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

This discipline provides highly qualified experienced programmatic SME support to programs/projects and/or center organizations.

• Supports strategic program/project reviews and special studies.

• Provides input and recommendations for alternatives or “make-or-buy” analysis and planning.

• Provides input and recommendations for the development/execution of the business plan processes, business plan, and strategic plans.

• Provides preparation and input for conferences, meetings, and program/project reviews.

• Develops handbooks and training courses.

• Provides affordability analysis and planning recommendations.

• Provides input, advice, and recommendations to Independent Review Teams.

• Reviews project documentation, technical reports, requirements documents, and memoranda to support decision making.

• Supports program reviews and provides independent assessments.

• Provides management analysis of program/project execution.

• Provides scenario planning.

• Serves as an advisory member of a program/project Standing Review Board.

• Provides mentoring.