NASA-gsfc wfirst instrument carrier fabrication

NASA/GSFC has a new requirement to provide the Instrument Carrier (IC) Flight Structure Fabrication for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Project.

WFIRST is a NASA observatory designed to perform wide-field imaging and slitless spectroscopic surveys of the near infrared (NIR) sky for the community as well as direct imaging of exoplanets and debris disks using a coronagraph. WFIRST is the top-ranked large space mission in the New Worlds, New Horizon (NWNH) Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

This contract will provide the necessary personnel, services, materials, and equipment and facilities necessary to fabricate, process development, and integrate the flight structure. The Contractor shall support the subsequent integration, development article fabrication and testing, evaluation, and validation of the IC flight structure at NASA/GSFC, including post delivery support to payload and observatory integration and test. The draft requirements documents are being provided with this synopsis.

It is anticipated that the subject contract will be a full and open competition, and Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) effort. The period of performance will be for approximately 20 months.

The Government anticipates a release of the Request for Proposal (RFP) in early July 2019.

The anticipated Small Business goals for this procurement are as follows: Total Small Business Goals 6 percent; Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns (SDB) 1.5 percent; Women Owned Small Business Concerns (WOSB) 1.5 percent; Historically Black Colleges & Universities 0 percent; HUBZone Small Business Concerns .5 percent; Veteran-Owned Small Business Concerns (VOSB) 1 percent; Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern .5 percent.
The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.

The NAICS code is 336419, Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing, with a size standard of 1,000 employees.

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.

The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be posted in Federal Business Opportunities (FBO): https://www.fbo.gov

Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any).

All contractual and technical questions must be submitted via e-mail to Julie.a.janus@nasa.gov.

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