Draft NASA Research Announcement (DNRA) Cover Letter.pdf

August 9, 2023

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TO: All Potential Offerors

SUBJECT: Draft NASA Research Announcement (DNRA), Solicitation No.

80GRC024N0001, for (AACES)

You are invited to review and comment on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center’s AACES solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement will seek to stimulate innovation and the development of advanced conceptual designs and technologies for commercial subsonic aircraft that could enter service around 2050, market permitting. The results of these studies will be used to identify key technology areas for NASA investment and will influence the future content of NASA’s subsonic transport research and technology portfolio.

Potential offerors are encouraged to comment on all aspects of the draft solicitation, including the requirements, schedules, proposal instructions, and evaluation approaches, 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 should identify any unnecessary or inefficient requirements and are also encouraged to comment on the DNRA CLIN structure, any unique terms and conditions, and the Section M Evaluation Criteria.

This competitive acquisition will result in a Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee (CPFF) contract. The contract will have a total potential period of performance of 18 months. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541715 and the small business size standard is 1,000.

Potential offerors should ensure its company is listed in the online database(s) for the following:

(1) System for award management: https://www.sam.gov/SAM/

The current planned release date for the Final NASA Research Announcement (NRA) is on or about October 14, 2023, with proposals being due approximately November 5, 2023.

The anticipated contract award date is March 2024. The contract will be performed offsite at the Contractor’s facilities.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration John H. Glenn Research Center Lewis Field Cleveland, OH 44135-3191

The following additional information is provided to assist in understanding this acquisition:

1. After release of the Draft NRA, an Industry Day is anticipated to be held in early

September. Notice will be posted on sam.gov.

2. Proposals for this solicitation are required to be submitted through NASA BOX.

Potential offerors, especially those that have not previously submitted a proposal utilizing NASA BOX, are encouraged to review the solicitation instruction entitled “Electronic Submission of Proposals – Proposal Marking and Delivery Through Nasa Box which provides instructions related to the submission of proposal via 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 Box.

In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by the Government and its Contractors, NASA policy requires all acquisition-related documents be released in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

Documents related to this acquisition, including this letter, the solicitation, attachments, exhibits, any amendments, and links to online reference/technical/bidders’ library will be attainable electronically from the World Wide Web through the Government-wide point of entry website at www.SAM.gov. Potential Offerors are requested to periodically monitor the websites for updates.

NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) clause 1852.215-84, OMBUDSMAN, is applicable. The Ombudsman for this acquisition is Dawn Schaible (757-864-2416, dawn.schaible-1@nasa.gov.)

This DNRA is not a solicitation and NASA is not requesting proposals. This DNRA does not commit NASA Glenn Research Center to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA Glenn Research Center to procure or contract for this requirement. 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.

Any comments regarding the DNRA should be submitted electronically in writing, to Ashlee Shaw, Contracting Officer, at ashlee.b.shaw@nasa.gov, by September 22, 2023. If a respondent believes their comments contain confidential, proprietary, competition sensitive, or business information, those questions/comments shall be marked appropriately. However, questions that are marked as containing confidential, proprietary, competition sensitive or business information will not be provided a Government response. The Government will consider all comments received in preparation of the Final NRA. To the extent a comment leads the Government to revise the acquisition approach or requirements, the change will be reflected in the Final NRA. Some DNRA questions and comments may receive a posted response to the GPE if the Contracting Officer determines that a response would facilitate additional understanding of the solicitation. The Government may also respond via the GPE to comments and/or questions received following the issuance of the Final NASA Research Announcement (NRA).

Ashlee Shaw Contracting Officer

Enclosure:

Draft NRA (80GRC024N0001)