Cover_Letter_Final_RFP-signed.pdf

TO: All Prospective Offerors

SUBJECT: Request for Proposal (RFP), Solicitation No. NN16598572R, for

Restore-L Rendezvous & Proximity Operations (RPO) Subsystem VisCam

Procurement

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

Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Restore-L RPO Subsystem

VisCam solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to design, develop, fabricate, test, and deliver the Restore-L Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) subsystem visible wavelength camera (VisCam) system.

This acquisition will be conducted as a full and open competition. The North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541712 and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees.

Prospective Offerors shall be advised that this solicitation contains International Traffic Arms

Regulations (ITAR) sensitive information. In order to review the full solicitation package, all offerors must be certified by the Joint Certification Program (JCP) administered by the Defense

Logistic Information Service (DLIS) to be eligible to download documents marked Export

Controlled. This certification establishes that a company is a U.S. or Canadian contractor eligible to receive unclassified technical data that is under the control of the U.S. Department of Defense

(DoD) or the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND). Please provide your approved

Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement (DD2345) form to the NASA contract specialist for verification. Once verification is complete, the contract specialist will provide these Export

Controlled documents to the offeror(s).

This competitive procurement will result in a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract. The contract will have a total potential period of performance of 21 months. The anticipated contract award date and effective date is December 15, 2016.

The contract will be performed offsite at the Contractor’s facilities.

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). Should any issues arise with the conversion, please contact the undersigned.

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; with the exception of any documents that are marked as ITAR sensitive.

Potential Offerors are requested to periodically monitor the websites 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 October 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m. EDT.

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 Ryan Hancock, Contracting Officer, at joseph.r.hancock@nasa.gov on or before October 14, 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.

Ryan Hancock

Contracting Officer

Ryan Hancock