NNG16547352R_Cover_Letter_AH.pdf

DATE: October 7, 2016

TO: All Potential Offerors

SUBJECT: Request for Proposal (RFP), Solicitation No. NNG16547352R, Safety and Mission Assurance Services (SMAS) II

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Safety and Mission Assurance

Services (SMAS) II solicitation. The principle purpose of this requirement is to provide safety and mission assurance services, independent surveillance, audit, review and assessment of design, development, test and Mission Operations activities on-site and at supplier facilities.

This includes management of institutional risk related to project operations. These services can include classified information. The SMA Directorate also manages the GSFC Quality

Managements Systems, and the implementation of institutional safety for center operations. In addition, a new piece of work will be performed under the SMAS II contract from Code 500 –

Lifting Devices Engineering and Pressure Vessel Systems. This work will require the addition of a Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Statement of Work, Attachment A, describes the scope of the requirement.

This acquisition will be conducted as a small business set-aside. The North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541712 and the small business size standard is 1,250 employees.

This competitive procurement will result in an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) requirement with the ability to issue Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) task orders. The contract will have an effective ordering period of 5 years from the contract effective date. The anticipated effective date of the contract is June 1, 2017. Phase-In will be conducted, under a separate contract or purchase order, during the 30-day period prior to the effective date of the contract.

The contract will be performed onsite at NASA GSFC and offsite at the Contractor’s facilities.

Contract performance may also occur at alternate places of performance as specified in individual task orders issued. The Government will make available existing Installation-

Accountable Government Property (IAGP) for onsite contract performance and Government

Furnished Property (GFP) for offsite use at the Contractor’s facility.

In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by both the Government and Government

Contractors, it is now Goddard Center policy that all procurement-related documents be released in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Offerors shall be aware that while the Cost Volume exhibits included in the RFP are in PDF format; the Offeror’s Cost Volume proposal submitted in response to this RFP shall include completed Cost Volume exhibits in Microsoft Office Excel format. Instructions for converting from PDF format to Excel format can be found in the Section

L Cost Volume Instructions provision. Offerors are encouraged to complete the conversion from

PDF format to Excel format upon receipt of the RFP. Should any issues arise with the conversion, please contact the undersigned.

Please note, a “Secret” facilities clearance is required for this procurement in accordance with the DD Form 254, Contract Security Classification Specification.

NASA GSFC appreciates the comments received in response to the release of the Draft RFP.

These comments resulted in improvements to the quality and content of the overall RFP.

Offerors should review the RFP in its entirety, as its content has changes from the Draft RFP version. The following list identifies some of the areas where modifications have been made from the Draft RFP to this final RFP:

Past Performance Recency requirements changed from 3 years to 5 years.

Subfactor A –Technical Approach revised for clarity.

Section 3 of the Statement of Work, Attachment A, has been removed.

Enclosure 1 revised for clarity

This list is not intended to cover all changes nor describe all RFP requirements. Offerors should carefully review the RFP in its entirety.

All documents related to this procurement, including this letter, the solicitation, attachments, exhibits, and any amendments will be attainable electronically from the World Wide Web through the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website at https://www.fbo.gov.

Additional information can also be found on the SMAS II online Reference Library at:

https://elibrary.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

Potential Offerors are requested to periodically monitor the website for updates.

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.

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.

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 shall not be construed as authorization to proceed with, or be paid for charges incurred by performing any of the work called for in this solicitation.

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than November 7, 2016, 2:00pm local time. Be advised, in accordance with Provision L.14 Offerors need to encourage their references to submit their Past Performance Questionnaires directly to the Contracting

Officer no later than the closing date of this solicitation.

Below is a list of the Source Selection Authority (SSA) and voting members along with their associated NASA GSFC organizational codes, for the Source Evaluation Board (SEB). The names provided are for informational purposes only and other than the Contracting Officer, https://www.fbo.gov/ https://elibrary.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html

Alexis Harris, these individuals shall not be contacted regarding this procurement. The

Government may change personnel associated with this acquisition at its discretion.

SSA

Greg Blaney Director of Independent Verification and Validation Facility (IV&V)

Voting Members Isaac McGinnis, Code 372

Hernan Castellanos, Code 360

Victor Torres, Code 592

James La, Code 373

Alexis Harris, Code 210.P

Offerors are reminded that a “Blackout Notice” for this procurement was distributed to all applicable NASA GSFC personnel concurrently with the release of the Final RFP to Industry.

Therefore, all communications pertaining to this procurement shall be directed only to the

Contracting Officer listed below.

All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted in writing, electronically to Alexis Harris, Contracting Officer, at alexis.n.harris@nasa.gov or before October 21, 2016. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.

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

//:signed

Alexis Harris

Contracting Officer mailto:alexis.n.harris@nasa.gov