Propellant Tanks

Added: Apr 14, 2017 11:04 am Modified: Jun 09, 2017 11:09 amTrack Changes

The purpose of this amendment is to extend the Request for Proposal due date to July 10, 2017 at 2:00 pm.

Added: Apr 14, 2017 11:04 am NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for propellant tank assemblies and a simulator tank for the Europa Mission.  The Europa Mission is being formulated and implemented by joint partnership between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Applied Physics Laboratory, with NASA/GSFC building the propulsion system for the Applied Physics Laboratory.   

The Government anticipates a release date for the Request for Proposal (RFP) in May 2017, with an anticipated offer due date in June 2017. 

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

This procurement will be a full and open competition.  The anticipated Small Business goals for this procurement are as follows: Total Small Business Goals 6%; Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns (SDB) 2.0%; Women Owned Small Business Concerns (WOSB) 1.0%; Historically Black Colleges & Universities 0.5%; HUBZone Small Business Concerns 0.5%; Veteran-Owned Small Business Concerns (VOSB) 1.0%; Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern 0.5%.

It is anticipated the resulting contract will be a Firm-Fixed-Price contract.

The NAICS Code and Size Standard are 336415 and 1,250 employees, respectively.

All responsible sources may submit an offer when applicable, 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 https://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html

The solicitation and any documents related to the 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.   

It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this Internet site (www.fbo.gov) 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).