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NASA Academic Mission Services – 2 (NAMS-2)

Robin De Leon Contracting Officer

Office of Procurement NASA Ames Research Center

NAMS-2 Industry Day

T h e c o r n e r s t o n e o f N A S A ’ s c u r r e n t a n d f u t u r e m i s s i o n s

Industry Day Schedule

Allocated Time (Pacific Time) Topic Presenter Media

8:30 am – 9:00 am (30 min)

NAMS-2 Introduction & Overview Small Business

Robin De Leon, Contracting Officer Christine Munroe, Small Business Specialist Slides

9:00 am – 9:30 am (30 min) Aviation Systems Division, Code AF William Chan, Division Chief Slides with pictures

9:30 am – 10:00am (30min) Aeronautics Project Office, Code AT Zachary Roberts, Division Chief Slides with pictures

10:00am – 10:30 am (30min) A NASA Perspective on Quantum Computing Eleanor G. Rieffel Slides with pictures

Industry Day Objectives

This Industry Day/Pre-Solicitation Conference is intended to:

• Present the draft acquisition approach and seek feedback;

• Familiarize potential offerors with the NAMS-2 technical requirements through informational presentations of the supported facilities and organizations;

• Allow potential offerors an opportunity to submit questions and feedback regarding the Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP); and

• Allow potential offerors an opportunity to ask programmatic technical questions to the Government.

General Guidance

• These slides shall not be interpreted as a comprehensive description of the Government’s requirements. Please refer to the draft PWS and DRFP.

• If there are any inconsistencies between this presentation and RFP, the RFP will govern.

• Nothing discussed at this pre-solicitation conference shall be construed as a revision to the DRFP, unless subsequently confirmed via the final RFP or an Amendment.

• A communication blackout will commence immediately upon the release of the final RFP. The blackout period will continue until contract award.

• All communication from industry must be directed only to the Contracting Officer and the Contract Specialist during the blackout period.

• Recording of today’s presentations is prohibited. The presentations will be uploaded to SAM.gov.

Questions

• All questions and comments related to the DRFP should be submitted in writing on the published Q&A template to both the Contracting Officer at rosalinda.r.deleon@nasa.gov and the Contract Specialist at noor.khazendar@nasa.gov no later than 3:00 p.m. PT on Sep 29, 2023.

• All participants’ microphones will be muted during today’s presentations.

• Questions and comments may be submitted through the MS Teams chat at any time during the presentations using the following format: company name, chart number, question.

• Questions and answers and slides will be posted on SAM.gov.

mailto:noor.khazendar@nasa.gov

Electronic Posting

• All documents pertaining to the NAMS-2 Procurement can be found on the SAM.gov website https://www.SAM.gov/content/home.

• Please search using either the solicitation number 80ARC023R0003 or the procurement title NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2).

• If you would like to be included in the interested parties list, please sign up through SAM.gov. Today’s attendee list will also be posted to this site.

Procurement Overview

• The PWS outlines the scope of work to be performed under this contract.

• This RFP will be a 100% Small Business competitive set-aside.

• The contract will be a hybrid contract with a management and technical core and IDIQ component.

• 5 Year Performance Period: 2-Year Base Period, one 2-Year Option Period and one 1-Year Option Period

• Contract Ordering Ceiling is ~124 Million.

• NAICS Code, 541715 (1000 Employees), PSC: AJ12

Acquisition Description

• The PWS describes the scope, complexity, and purpose of the services with details of the requirements to be procured under the contract.

• Core requirements include:

o Contract Management and Administration - ensures that the requirements are effectively managed and implemented to support all activities covered in the PWS. The required services include Contract Compliance; Workforce Training; Employee Credential and Clearance Management; Travel Management; IT Security Management; Health, Safety, and Environmental Management; Contract Reporting; Contract Staff Management; Records Management.

o Air Traffic Management Research – includes research in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) airspace utilization, integration of autonomous piloted aircraft operations in the National Airspace System (NAS), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM), the digital transformation of the NAS-UAM airspace, autonomous piloted aircraft operations, collaborative traffic management connectivity, and ATM digital information platforms.

NASA Office of Small Business Programs-Ames Research Center

• Small Business Specialist: Christine Munroe

• Industry E-mail: arc-smallbusiness@mail.nasa.gov

• Phone: (650) 604-4695

• Address:

o M/S 241-1 o Moffett Field, CA 94035

• Web sites:

o NASA HQ OSBP www.osbp.nasa.gov o Doing Business with ARC Small Business Upcoming Events https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/business/index.html o Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Center https://www.aptac-us.org/ mailto:arc-smallbusiness@mail.nasa.gov http://www.osbp.nasa.gov/ https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/business/index.html https://www.aptac-us.org/

IDIQ component includes the following:

• Academic methods - Academic studies and reviews, future workforce training, expert instruction

• ATM research for safety and mission assurance - Software development management plan, software assurance compliance matrix, software development matrix

• Advanced Technological Systems (ATS) - Integration with simulated vehicles, integration with external data services, integration analyses, maintenance of data models

• Nanoelectronics and devices - Flexible hybrid electronic devices, integration with associated hardware

• Advanced Software for digital twin systems - Use cases, algorithms and models, software development and testing, technical training, prototype design

IDIQ component includes the following:

• Quantum computing technology - Performance metrics, theoretical models, run results, circuit formulations

• Secure airspace architectures - Security solutions for UAM, modeling and simulation support, hardware evaluations

• Machine learning and data mining - NAMS-2ment of existing methods, development of new methods, development of software and visualization modes

• Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign - Testing for flight test, support partner simulations, data services, governance and data sharing, data analysis and reporting

• Advanced aeronautics research and development - Software systems for ATM, research concepts for ATM, statistical and data analyses, technical documents

Acquisition Strategy

• This is a follow-on acquisition to contract number NNA16BD14C (NASA Academic Mission Services (NAMS)). The period of performance for NAMS ends 11/30/2023.

• The NAMS-2 acquisition will be competed pursuant to FAR 15 and NFS Part 1815 – Contracting by Negotiations. This acquisition will result in a single award hybrid contract consisting of:

o A Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) Contract Line Item (CLIN) for Phase-In, o Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) Contract Line Items (CLINs) for Core Contract Management (with options), o Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) Contract Line Items (CLINs) for Core Technical requirements (with options), o Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) task order requirements under which Cost-Plus-

Fixed-Fee (CPFF) task orders will be executed.

Acquisition Strategy (Cont.)

• FAR 52.215-1 and NFS 1815.209 allow for an award to be made without discussions. The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award a contract without discussions with offerors (except clarifications as described in FAR 15.306(a)). Therefore, the offeror's initial proposal should contain the offeror's best terms from a cost or price and technical standpoint. The Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer later determines them to be necessary.

Proposal Preparation

• Proposals shall be prepared in accordance with the Final Request for Proposal (RFP) and subsequent written Amendments, if any.

• The Offeror shall acknowledge all Amendments with the proposal submission.

• The evaluation of proposals shall be in accordance with the Final RFP.

Evaluation Factors- Weighting & Scoring

• The following sub-factors and points have been determined for the Mission Suitability Factor:

Mission Suitability Sub-factor Points

Subfactor A: Management Approach 450

Subfactor B: Technical Understanding 550

Total 1000

Proposal Evaluation

• Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the RFP, along with the guidelines presented in FAR Subpart 15.3 and NASA FAR Supplements (NFS) Subpart 1815.3.

The following are the three evaluation factors that will be used:

oMission Suitability oPast Performance oCost/Price

• As individual factors, the Mission Suitability Factor is more important than the Cost/Price Factor which is more important than the Past Performance Factor. The Mission Suitability Factor and Cost/Price factor, when combined, are significantly more important than the Past Performance Factor.

Evaluation Factors- Weighting & Scoring

• Past Performance will be assigned a Confidence Rating:

oVery High Level of Confidence oHigh Level of Confidence oModerate Level of Confidence o Low Level of Confidence oVery Low Level of Confidence oNeutral

• The cost evaluation will be conducted in accordance with FAR 15.305(a)(1) and NFS 1815.305(a)(1)(B), Cost or price evaluation.

Selection Decision

• The Source Selection Authority's (SSA) decision shall be based on a comparative assessment of proposals pursuant to source selection criteria prescribed in this solicitation.

• While the SSA may use reports and analyses prepared by others, the source selection decision shall represent the SSA's independent judgment.

Request for Feedback

• Potential offerors are encouraged to comment on all aspects of the draft solicitation:

o Including requirements o Schedules o Proposal instructions o Evaluation approaches, Section L and M o Any perceived safety, occupational health, general, security and IT security concerns o Programmatic risk issues o Identify any unnecessary or inefficient requirements o Identify comments on the CLIN structure, & Cost Exhibits o Any unique terms and conditions

FOIA Requests

• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests may be submitted electronically to https://www.nasa.gov/FOIA/index.html

• No proprietary information will be disclosed.

• The NASA ARC FOIA Electronic Reading Room can be accessed at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/business/foia/elec.html.

Acquisition Status

• Please note that the dates are subject to change and any updates will be posted on SAM.gov.

Tentative Acquisition Milestones

MILESTONES2 TENTATIVE DATES

Issue Draft RFP Sep 14, 2023

Industry Day Sep 26, 2023

Issue Final RFP Nov 3, 2023

Proposals Due Dec 18, 2023

Contract Award (Phase-In Begins) Aug 2, 2024

Contract Effective Date (Phase-In Ends) October 22, 2024

Contact Information

Contracting Officer: Robin De Leon rosalinda.r.deleon@nasa.gov

Contract Specialist: Noor Khazendar noor.khazendar@nasa.gov

Websites: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/forecast/ https://www.nasa.gov/office/procurement https://sam.gov/content/home mailto:rosalinda.r.deleon@nasa.gov mailto:noor.khazendar@nasa.gov https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/forecast/ https://www.nasa.gov/office/procurement https://sam.gov/content/home

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