L-01 COMET Past Performance Questionnaire.docx

CONSOLIDATED OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT, ENGINEERING AND TEST (COMET) CONTRACT

Attachment L-01

Past Performance Questionnaire

PAST PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE

CONSOLIDATED OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT, ENGINEERING AND TEST (COMET) CONTRACT

John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida

This questionnaire is submitted for your evaluation by a company that has intentions to compete for the Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering and Test (COMET) contract at the Kennedy Space Center as a prime or subcontractor. The following terms, “customer reference” and “evaluator,” are used to refer to the person performing the evaluation. For the COMET Request for Proposal (RFP), NASA requires the company to provide this questionnaire to customer references for which it has had an active or completed contract in the past five years. Please complete this questionnaire and return to NASA per the following instructions. Your assistance in this effort is greatly appreciated.

The purpose of the COMET contract is to enable the evolution of exploration mission services and the principal functions are to provide safe operations, maintenance and processing of complex launch-related ground systems that require skilled engineering and integrated management. This contract, Consolidated Operations Management Engineering and Test (COMET) will succeed KSC’s Test and Operations Support Contract or TOSC. COMET will provide engineering; ground system development; flight vehicle/spacecraft processing; and launch, landing, and recovery operations for the following Exploration Systems Development (ESD) programs: Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), Space Launch System (SLS), and Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) Programs. This contract will provide services to International Space Station (ISS), Launch Services Program (LSP) as well as other NASA programs, commercial ventures, and partnerships at KSC.

Instructions for completing the Past Performance questionnaire and a sample cover letter to send to your customer reference for performance assessment are included in the following pages.

Please request that the customer reference complete the attached questionnaire and email a PDF file, to Christina Johnsen, Contracting Officer, at . The completed questionnaire will become a part of the official source selection records. To be appropriately considered, the Past Performance Questionnaire shall be returned to the Contracting Officer in its entirety no later than: TBD. If there are any questions, please contact the Contracting Officer at the email address listed above.

COMET RFP No. 80KSC022R0004 ATTACHMENT L-01

PAST PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE

TO REFERENCE: Christina Johnsen, Contracting Officer DATE

REFERENCE’S EMAIL:

INFORMATION REQUEST

PAST PERFORMANCE

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is in the process of soliciting offers from companies for the Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering and Test (COMET) contract at the Kennedy Space Center. ___________________ has provided your name and organization as a reference regarding our record of past performance under Contract Number: .

Our company is competing for Solicitation # 80KSC022R0004 as a ___________________. (Input Prime Contractor, Subcontractor, or Other (explain)) In order for NASA KSC to conduct its evaluation of our company’s past performance record, we request that you complete the attached questionnaire and email a PDF file, to Ms. Christina Johnsen, Contracting Officer, at KSC-COMET-Team@mail.nasa.gov.

Your completed questionnaire will become a part of the official source selection records. To be appropriately considered, the Past Performance Questionnaire shall be returned to the Contracting Officer in its entirety no later 8:00 AM EDT, on April 18, 2022.

QUESTIONNAIRE INSTRUCTIONS

Sections I and II - Company and Contract Information: To be completed by the Offeror.

Section III - Evaluator Information: To be completed by the evaluator. The COMET Contract Source Evaluation Board may contact you regarding the information you provide.

Section IV: Performance Survey: To be completed by the evaluator. Provide your assessment of the company’s experience level and performance, as evidenced within the contract for which you are a customer reference. It is very important to keep in mind that only performance on active or completed contracts in the last five years is relevant.

For each item, respond by placing an “x” in the appropriate block for both the Experience Level and your Performance Assessment that best describes the company for the referenced contract or order.

Please use the following definitions in assessing the company’s experience level.

Please use the following performance ratings for items the company has significant or moderate experience.

Section V: Overall Assessment: To be completed by the evaluator. Provide additional information and your assessment of the company.

COMET RFP No. 80KSC022R0004 ATTACHMENT L-01

Company (Name/Division Being Evaluated):

Address

Contract Number:

Contract Name:

Contract Type:

Contract Award Date:

Period of Performance (including options):

Total Contract Value

SECTION II: CONTRACT INFORMATION

Product/service description (Briefly describe the services provided and the company’s specific role in the contract):

Work Performed as (Prime, Significant Subcontractor, Joint Venture, other (describe)):

Value of Subcontractor Share:

Does a corporate or ownership relationship exist between the offeror being evaluated and your firm? If yes, please describe:

SECTION III: EVALUATOR INFORMATION

Name:

Position Title:

Telephone Number:

Email Address:

Agency/Company Name:

Address:

Role in Program/Contract:

Length of involvement in this Program/Contract:

Date questionnaire completed:

SECTION IV: PERFORMANCE SURVEY

Description Relevant Experience (“X” for response) Performance Rating (“X” for response)

MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE

Overall performance in planning, managing and controlling the program or project

Comments:

Ability to build effective working relationships with associate contractors, subcontractors and the Government

Comments:

Ability to develop and implement management functions to ensure all contracted activities were accomplished in accordance with contract terms and conditions

Comments:

Ability to effectively coordinate, integrate, and manage the workforce including subcontractor performance

Comments:

Ability to integrate, communicate and coordinate across all elements of the contract

Comments:

Ability to provide and maintain management systems for the planning, organization, control, and reporting of all activities required by the contract.

Comments:

Ability to identify and manage key positions and critical skill needs, and recruit and retain highly skilled personnel in a timely manner.

Comments:

Ability to react quickly to accommodate fluctuating workload

Comments:

Ability to fully meet contract requirements at contract start

Comments:

Commitment to customer satisfaction, including willingness to cooperate

Comments:

Contract change order management, including commitment to negotiate and ability to implement contract changes and modify plans to accommodate change in a timely manner

Comments:

TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE

Safety, Mission Assurance, and Environment

Overall Safety and Health injury/illness record

Comments:

Demonstrated understanding and compliance with safety requirements and procedures

Comments:

Demonstrated ability to implement and maintain an effective quality management system and if applicable, adherence to AS9100 requirements

Comments:

Demonstrated understanding and compliance with environmental and hazardous/controlled waste requirements

Comments:

Operations and Processing

Demonstrated operational experience involving processing, testing, integration or assembly of complex, spaceflight or other hardware systems

Comments:

Demonstrated ability to operate, maintain and sustain a complex centralized command and control system for multiple-facility processing

Comments:

Demonstrated experience in verification and validation testing for standalone and integrated systems

Comments:

Demonstrated ability to operate and maintain ground or support systems

Comments:

Demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, and implement operational activities in an environment with competing priorities

Comments:

Ground Systems Development and Sustaining Engineering

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects from planning and requirements development through implementation and turnover

Comments:

Ability to accurately scope new projects and estimate corresponding cost and schedule

Comments:

Ground systems sustaining engineering of highly complex, high-value systems while maintaining configuration control.

Comments:

Ability to perform systems engineering and horizontal and vertical integration on complex systems

Comments:

Ability to perform engineering analysis for new development, sustaining, or operations

Comments:

Compliance with technical requirements and performance standards

Comments:

Logistics

Ability to manage large logistics inventories, including analyzing supply chain needs and performing differing levels-of-repair (e.g., depot-level, vendor-level)

Comments:

Ability to assess training needs and provide a trained and certified workforce

Comments:

SCHEDULE PERFORMANCE

Ability to deliver products that meet or exceed performance requirements within costs and schedule

Comments:

Content, accuracy, quality, and timeliness of technical, management, and financial reports and deliverables

Comments:

Initiative in identifying unforeseen schedule and technical problems and in identifying and mitigating risks

Comments:

Ability to recover schedule loss when unforeseen circumstances occur

Comments:

COST PERFORMANCE

Ability to effectively plan efforts and provide realistic cost and schedule estimates

Comments:

Adherence to estimated and contract target costs

Comments:

SECTION V: OVERALL ASSESSMENT

(a) Contract Value:

Estimated Cost:

Fee/Profit:

Total Value:

Briefly describe any change(s) from original contract value:

(b) Was there a cost overrun/under-run? (yes or no)

If yes, what was the magnitude? Please explain:

(c) If an award/incentive fee type contract, what are the ratings of performance over the past five years?

(d) Please comment on particular strengths or weaknesses of company’s performance (technical, schedule and/or cost) not addressed in Section IV. (Attach additional sheets as needed.)

(e) Would you use this company again? (yes or no)

In no, please explain: