Industry membership
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- 80NSSC211110
- Agency
- Shared Services Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 6113 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- PSC
- R799 Support- Management: Other
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
NASA/NSSC intends to award a sole source contract to George Mason University to provide industry membership in the Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing, and Applications Center, an NSF-funded Industry/University Cooperative Research Center hosted by GMU. The two-year contract would support applying emerging AI/ML techniques to Earth science applications, benchmarking AI/ML performance on representative tasks, and testing novel hardware and cloud computing solutions. Interested parties could submit capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort by August 13, 2021 to be evaluated for determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
There is no set-aside designated for this procurement. The NAICS code is 611310 for educational services. The pre-solicitation notice establishes intent to award the sole source contract to GMU as the sole provider of needed membership in the research center. The statement of work specifies work would be performed at GMU over two years from October 2021 through September 2023.
Notice text
Synopsis:
NASA/NSSC has a requirement for INDUSTRY MEMBERSHIP.
NASA/NSSC intends to issue a sole source contract to GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i). It has been determined that GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY is the sole provider of the needed membership.
NASA/NSSC will be the procuring center for this effort. Performance will be located at NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).
The Government intends to acquire commercial items and services using the provisions, clauses and procedures prescribed in FAR Part 12 and FAR Part 13.
The NAICS Code for this procurement is 611310
Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 12:00 pm. Eastern Daylight Time on August 13, 2021. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government.
Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.
NASA 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 .
Attachments
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| GMU_IUCRC_SOW-NSSCFormforDanDuffy_20210808211925.606_X.pdf |
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