ESHMA SS.pdf

80GRC022R0017

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NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) is hereby soliciting information from potential sources for the Environmental, Safety, Health, and Mission Assurance (ESHMA) procurement.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) GRC is seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including all socioeconomic categories of Small Businesses and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI), and members of the underserved communities as defined by Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity And Support For Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government, for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for the ESHMA procurement. The Government reserves the right to consider a Small, 8(a), Women-owned (WOSB), Service-Disabled Veteran (SD-VOSB), Economically Disadvantaged Women-owned Small Business (EDWOSB) or HUBZone business set-aside based on responses received.

The ESHMA work scope will encompass all the GRC Safety, Health, and Mission Assurance - 2 (SHeMA-2 – 80GRC018C0028) scope, along with the environmental portion of the GRC Construction, Maintenance, Environmental & Testing Services (COMETS - 80GRC018C0022), and all the GRC Medical and Fitness Services (MFS- 80GRC018C0054) scope.

The types of services include but aren’t limited to: Providing support services for Environmental, Institutional Operational Safety, Occupational Health, and Mission Assurance support services at GRC; and Institutional Operational Safety and Occupational Health support services at NASA HQ.

GRC services shall support all institutional facilities and the Mission Assurance aspects of space flight and aeronautics activities at GRC’s Lewis Field (LF) in Cleveland, Ohio, and Armstrong Test Facility (ATF) in Sandusky, Ohio. HQ services shall support safety and health requirements of NASA HQ located in Washington DC.

Objectives and General Requirements: In the area of Environmental Services: The contractor shall support the development, implementation, efficiency, and improvement of the environmental compliance tasks while maintaining up to date with regulatory requirements. The contractor shall: indicate Environmental Experience, and experience in topics including: Above Ground Storage tanks/Underground storage tanks regulations, Surface water, wastewater, stormwater regulations, Drafting permits and plans and implementing those requirements, Supporting spills: (fuels, oils, hazardous waste, other), Sustainability and the Executive Orders governing the NASA Environmental Management System, Hazardous/Regulated Waste, Education/ Outreach, Support to all audits, compliance inspections, and environmental investigations, and Environmental program efficiencies and innovative solutions.

For Operational Safety, the Contractor shall support the primary safety programs at the GRC, including efforts toward VPP certification, the Mishap Program, Safety Permit Program, Facility and Construction Inspection Program, and the execution of Facility System Safety Disciplines.

Primary engineering disciplines encompassed within this scope include Electrical Safety, Explosives Safety, Facility Systems Safety, Fire Safety and Prevention, Lifting Devices and Equipment, Process Safety Management and ground-based Pressure Vessels and Pressurized

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Systems. The contractor shall support the implementation of the requirements of NASA Procedural Requirements, NASA technical standards and the GRC Glenn Safety Manual (GSM).

For Occupational Health, the contractor shall provide the necessary management, personnel, equipment, and supplies (not otherwise provided by the Government) required to support health services and programs, which are protective of worker and visitor health in all GRC working environments. The Contractor shall support compliance to NASA Office of Chief Health & Medical Officer (OCHMO) requirements, Federal (OSHA, NRC), state, local, and Center Occupational Health program, and policy requirements. This includes technical expertise in the areas of health hazard anticipation, recognition, management, assessment, and recommendations for the control and prevention of exposures to biological, chemical, radiological, and physical hazards.

The contractor shall support implementation of chemical management programs, including hazard communication, chemical hygiene, chemical inventory, and acquisition of hazardous chemicals and materials. The contractor shall provide chemical sampling and analysis.

The Contractor shall provide comprehensive Medical Services to maintain a healthful and productive workforce, support compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements to satisfy applicable guidance documents dealing with the health maintenance, medical surveillance, physical exams, first aid treatment, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) program and emergency care in accordance with provisions of NPR 1800.1, NASA Occupational Health Program Procedures. The contractor will provide GRC with Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to assist GRC civil servant employees, their families, and GRC management with issues that adversely impact the employee’s job performance. The contractor shall manage and operate the existing Lewis Field (LF) Fitness Center and shall establish and maintain a comprehensive and integrated Health Promotion and Wellness Program (HPWP) including fitness assessments, exercise prescriptions, group exercise (both in person & virtual), to facilitate employee awareness, increase health knowledge and support behavioral modification to the maximum extent among the largest possible spectrum of the GRC workforce.

In the area of Aero/Space Systems and Ground Support Equipment Mission Assurance, the contractor shall provide the necessary management, personnel, equipment, training, and supplies (not otherwise provided by the Government) required to perform services for planning, implementation, and assessment of Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Engineering (QE), System Safety Engineering, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, EEE Parts, Software Assurance Software Safety (SASS), Complex Electronics/Flight Programmable Logic Assurance (CE/FPLA), Risk Management, S&MA Management Information, Independent Assessment, and Documentation and Report Support elements for the GRC S&MA Directorate (SMAD).

At NASA HQ, the contractor shall provide Safety and Occupational Health Program Support, Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Laboratory Sampling and Analyses, General Safety and Health requirements and Documentation, References, and Records Management.

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No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on SAM.gov. Interested firms are responsible for monitoring this website for the release of any solicitation or synopsis.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541715 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology), with size standard of 1,000 employees. The magnitude of this effort is anticipated to be between $50M and $100M.

Interested firms having the required capabilities necessary to meet the above requirement described herein should submit a capability statement of no more than 10 pages indicating the ability to perform all aspects of the effort.

These pages shall consist of the following:

1. GENERAL INFORMATION: Briefly describe your company and the types of services performed. Please also include: the names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers for any points of contacts (POCs), the company’s address, CAGE Code/DUNS number, and the type of business demographic that applies (i.e., small business, large business, women-owned).

2. PAST PERFORMANCE: The Offeror shall also provide contract information on similar contracts over the past three (3) years. This information shall include: the name of customer/agency, types of services provided, type of contract, total contract value, and whether the contractor was a prime or subcontract. If subcontract, please provide details regarding prime contract and your company’s role in supporting the prime contractor. In addition, please provide any examples about your company’s capabilities to quickly and efficiently staff to rapidly changing requirements.

3. CAPABILITIES: Information describing your company’s capabilities to meet the requirements contained in this Sources Sought Notice.

4. COMMENTS and RECOMMENDATIONS for the most effective incentive/performance criteria (if different from the current approach). Further, describe both risks and mitigations the Government should consider.

5. DESCRIPTION of programmatic, financial, technical, and administrative lessons learned from similar efforts in Environmental, Institutional Operational Safety, Occupational Health- (Industrial Hygiene, Medical Services, Fitness and Employee Assistance), and Aero/Space Systems and Ground Support Equipment Mission Assurance.

6. DESCRIPTION of the type of information needed about the existing requirements and varying locations that would be helpful for submitting a credible proposal.

The requirement is not considered a commercial type service as defined in FAR 2.101.

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Additionally, in support of the Executive Order (EO) 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, NASA is seeking to advance equity or remove barriers for members of underserved communities related to this requirement.

As defined in the EO, Underserved Communities refers to populations sharing a particular characteristic, as well as geographic communities, that have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic, social, and civic life, as exemplified by the list in the preceding definition of "equity." Equity means the consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment, such as Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color;

members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.

NASA seeks input in the following areas:

1. To support the requirements identified in this Sources Sought notification, what barriers or opportunities exist to engage subject matter experts from industry and academia and how can those barriers be overcome? How can underserved communities be leveraged?

2. To support the requirements identified in this Sources Sought, what barriers or opportunities exist to partner with subcontractors that employ members of underserved communities, as defined above?

3. What other recommendations would you make to enhance diversity and inclusion?

4. What should be considered to encourage full participation and contribution of organizations and individuals (e.g., outreach efforts and innovative partnerships) in performance of this requirement?

All responses shall be submitted electronically via email to Richard Amiot, Contracting Officer, via e-mail at richard.w.amiot@nasa.gov no later than Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 4:30pm EST.

Please reference 80GRC022R0017 and your firm/company name in any response.

This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited.

Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation.

If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in sam.gov. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or sources sought. The Government intends to review all responses submitted by Industry. This data will not be shared outside the Government and may be used to further refine requirements. Please do not submit proprietary information.

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System for Award Management (SAM): Offerors shall have and shall maintain an active registration in the SAM database at sam.gov to be eligible for a government contract award. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture (JV), the JV entity shall have valid SAM registration in the SAM database representing the JV as one business/firm/entity. If at the time of award an Offeror is not actively and successfully registered in the SAM database, the Government reserves the right to award to the next prospective Offeror.