Request for Proposal Letter for Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).pdf

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

April 08, 2020 Reply to Attn: PS52

TO: All Prospective Offerors

SUBJECT: Request for Proposal (RFP) Solicitation No. 80MSFC21R0018, for the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center’s (MSFC) Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide design, development, manufacture, testing and qualification of an IMU (in compliance with NASA MSFC specifications) with multiple deliveries. More specifically, this requirement involves the manufacture of no less than three inertial measurement units for the MAV, including a flight, flight spare, and qualification/Engineering Model (EM) unit totaling three deliveries. NASA MSFC may require three additional units to support a flight test, which will be determined prior to contract award. The flight units shall be delivered no later than (NLT) November 1, 2023, the EM unit shall be delivered NLT September 1, 2023, and the flight test units shall be delivered NLT October 1, 2023 if required. On-call engineering support will be required, as needed, after delivery of the hardware. The MAV IMU will be used for pre-flight gyrocompassing on the surface of Mars to obtain an initial attitude solution and to propagate the vehicle state during ascent from the surface.

NASA will conduct this acquisition as a full and open competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334511 and the small business size standard is 1250.

This competitive acquisition will result in a Cost-Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) contract type. The contract will have a total potential period of performance of five years, including a 24-month Base Period, a 12 month Option Period 1, a 12 month Option Period 2, and a 12 month Option Period 3.

The anticipated contract award date is August 3, 2021, with an August 3, 2021 contract effective date. The contract will be performed offsite at the Contractor’s facilities.

Potential offerors should pay close attention to all solicitation instructions; however, the following requirements list is summarized to assist in proposal development. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and the solicitation terms and conditions and provisions in sections L and M take precedence:

1. Be advised, in accordance with provision Past Performance Volume Instructions (AUG 18 2020), Offerors need to encourage their references to submit their Past Performance Questionnaires directly to the Contracting Officer prior to proposal due date.

2. Offerors are required to have a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code that matches the corporate address submitted with its proposal.

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.

In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by the Government and its Contractors, NASA policy required all acquisition-related documents be released in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). While the RFP’s Cost Volume exhibits are in PDF format, the Offeror’s Cost Volume proposal shall include completed Cost Volume exhibits in Microsoft Office Excel format with working cell formulas.

Documents related to this acquisition, including this letter, the solicitation, attachments, and any amendments will be attainable electronically from the World Wide Web through the Government-wide point of entry website at www.beta.SAM.gov. 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.

This RFP does not commit NASA MSFC to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA MSFC to procure or contract for these services. This request is not an authorization to proceed, and does not authorize payment for any charges incurred by the offeror for performing any of the work called for in this solicitation.

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than May 17, 2021 at 3 P.M. Central Time.

All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted in writing, electronically to Cynthia Hubbard, Contracting Officer, at cynthia.a.hubbard@nasa.gov and Belinda Triplett at belinda.f.triplett@nasa.gov on or before May 17, 2021. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.

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

Cynthia Hubbard Contracting Officer

CYNTHIA

HUBBARD

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CYNTHIA

HUBBARD

Date: 2021.04.08 16:56:55 -05'00'