Cover Letter _RFP.pdf

TO: All Prospective Offerors

SUBJECT: Request for Proposal (RFP), Solicitation No. 80GSFC23R0024, for Atmosphere

Observing System - Polar (AOS-P) Polarimeter Instrument Phase A Study (AOS Radar Instrument Phase A Study)

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) AOS Polarimeter Phase A Study solicitation. The principal purpose of this new procurement is to provide insight into potential instrument concepts that will support AOS-P mission implementation, with particular attention to performance capability, developmental maturity, and developmental risk of the AOS Radar Instrument.

NASA will conduct this acquisition as a full and open competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541715 and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees.

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

This competitive acquisition may result in up to two Firm-Fixed Price contracts with a Not to Exceed (NTE) value of $2.5M each or one (1) contract with a not to exceed value of $5M. The Government is calling special attention to Provision L.10 of Enclosure 1 – Request for Proposal.

In this provision the Government is requesting offerors to submit two (2) Risk Reduction & Demonstration (RR&D) plans, Attachment C. The first risk reduction and demonstration plan shall not exceed $2.5M of the total contract value (i.e. total value of CLIN 1 and CLIN 2) and the second risk reduction and demonstration plan shall not exceed $5M of the total contract value (i.e. total value of CLIN 1 and CLIN 2). The contract will have a period of performance of 15 months.

The anticipated contract award and effective date is September 1, 2023. The contract will be performed offsite at the Contractor’s facilities.

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.

In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by the Government and its Contractors, NASA policy required all acquisition-related documents be released in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). While the RFP’s Price Volume exhibits are in PDF format, the Offeror’s Price Volume proposal shall include completed Price Volume exhibits in Microsoft Office Excel format with working cell formulas.

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 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 is not an authorization to proceed, and does not authorize payment for any charges incurred by the offeror for performing any of the work called for in this solicitation.

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than 3:00 PM EST Friday, July 10, 2023. Proposals for this solicitation are required to be submitted through NASA’s Enterprise File Sharing and Sync Box (EFSS Box), a FedRAMP Moderate certified platform.

Potential offerors, especially those that have not previously submitted a proposal utilizing NASA’s EFSS Box, are encouraged to review the solicitation instruction entitled “Electronic Proposal Delivery - Proposal Marking and Delivery Through NASA’s EFSS Box” which provides instructions related to the submission of proposal via EFSS Box. Offerors are encouraged to check with their corporate IT staff to determine if there are firewall restrictions that would need to be addressed prior to the submission of proposal files through NASA’s EFSS Box.

In accordance with NFS 1815.201(f), a “Blackout Notice” has been issued to NASA personnel.

All inquiries/communications pertaining to this acquisition shall be directed only to the Contracting Officer listed below.

All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted in writing, electronically to Ravi Palaniandy, Contract Specialist, at ravichandan.palaniandy@nasa.gov and Craig Keish, Contracting Officer, at craig.f.keish@nasa.gov on or before 3:00 PM EST Friday June 21, 2023. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.

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

Andres Castro Contracting Officer

Enclosures:

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Enclosure 1 – RFP Sections B-M Attachment A – Statement of Work Attachment B – Reserved Attachment C - Risk Reduction and Demonstration for Flight Program Efforts Attachment D - IT Security Management Plan (TBS 30 days after contract award) Attachment E - IT Security Applicable Documents List Attachment F - Data Requirement Descriptions (DRD) Attachment G - Organization Conflict of Interest (OCI) Plan (TBS with proposal) Enclosure 2- Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan Enclosure 3 – OCI Avoidance Plan Template

Andres Castro Digitally signed by Andres Castro Date: 2023.06.08 16:02:01 -04'00'