Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud and ocean Ecosystems (PACE) Inertial Reference Unit (IRU)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has a requirement for an Inertial Reference Unit (IRU) for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) spacecraft which is targeted to launch in 2022-2023.

This mission is planned for launch into a sun-synchronous polar orbit at 676.5 km with an inclination of 98 degrees and a 1 p.m. local ascending node crossing time. The IRU shall provide three axis rate information to the PACE Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) System using flight-qualified high-grade inertial sensors and it is intended for use as a high accuracy, fine resolution altitude reference.
The solicitation number is 80GSFC19R0002. This solicitation is issued as a request for proposal (RFP).
For more information on technical requirements, please refer to the attached Statement of Work and the Specifications document.
The NAICS Code for this action is 334511 with a size standard of 1250 employees.
Proposals to fulfill this requirement are due date by January 7, 2019.

All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency.

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 available over the Internet. These documents will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application.
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 questions must be submitted in via email to Joel Rivera no later than December 21, 2018. Telephone questions will not be accepted.

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