Architect-Engineer (A-E) Environmental Engineering Services at Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL)

NASA MSFC has a requirement for continuation of Architect-Engineer (A-E) Environmental Engineering Services at Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) located in Ventura County, California for environmental remediation, compliance, and monitoring services at SSFL. NASA MSFC intends to procure these services from Jacobs Engineering pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(a)(1), which implements the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), when an Agency’s need for supplies or services is available from only one responsible source that will satisfy Agency requirements and FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii)(B), unacceptable delays in fulfilling the Agency's requirements.

For over fifty years, the SSFL was utilized for the development, test and validation of various rockets engines, fuels, and solvents. The fuels and solvents were used to test and maintain the propulsion systems and testing facilities which have over the years collected in the ground water and caused contamination. Federal and State environmental laws require remediation of the affected areas followed by a period of monitoring. California law requires that remediation be sustained, without cessation, through completion. This effort will provide professional engineering with experience in investigation and clean-up, natural resources specialists, cultural resources specialists, chemists, risk assessors, community relations specialists, hydrogeologists, regulatory compliance, remediation services needed to maintain compliance with state and federal environmental regulations and respond to legally enforceable Consent Orders signed with Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC).

Competition is impractical for the following reasons:

1.  Jacobs has successfully established trusted and respected relationships with remediation regulators, namely DTSC, Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ventura County Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA) [a.k.a. Hazardous Materials Program], Ventura County Air Pollution Control District, and Ventura County Planning Department. These relationships are essential prerequisites to NASA achieving the remediation standards and requirements.
2. Jacobs holds historical, relevant, institutional knowledge and competence that is exclusively unique to NASA’s SSFL remediation circumstances. Moreover, Jacobs’ personnel have seasoned relationships with the regulator’s technical staff, which facilitates effective, expeditious communication since expectations and objectives are well known and understood.
3. It would take years to re-develop the relationships with the regulators and for a new teamto fully learn: (1) the data from prior sampling and analysis, (2) the nature and extent ofthe contamination, and (3) the feasibility of specific cleanup technologies suitable toSSFL conditions. Award to any other contractor would cause NASA to incurunacceptable delays to performance and schedule while duplicating cost in many areas,jeopardizing the goal of achieving an agreed upon remediation standard with DTSC.

The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.

Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort electronically via email to Kelcey Cole, kelcey.cole@nasa.gov not later than 12:00AM Central Time on April 22, 2022. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this acquisition on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/publibrary/Omb.html.