Restore-L Rendezvous Proximity Operations Subsystem Visible Wavelength Spaceflight Cameras

Added: Oct 07, 2016 9:17 am The purpose of this amendment to extend the proposal due date to November 3, 2016.

Added: Sep 23, 2016 1:09 pm NASA/GSFC hereby issues a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the following items: Restore-L RPO Subsystem visible wavelength camera.

The principal purpose of this requirement is to design, develop, fabricate, test, and deliver the Restore-L Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) subsystem visible wavelength camera (VisCam) system.
 
This acquisition will be conducted as a full and open competition. The NAICS Code and Size Standard are 541712 and 1,000 Employees respectively.  
 
This RFP does not commit NASA GSFC to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA GSFC to procure or contract for these items/services. This request shall not be construed as authorization to proceed with, or be paid for charges incurred by performing any of the work called for in this solicitation.
 
Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than October 25, 2016.
 
All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted in writing, electronically to Ryan Hancock, Contracting Officer, at joseph.r.hancock@nasa.gov on or before October 14, 2016. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.

Added: Aug 17, 2016 1:58 pm NASA/GSFC is requesting industry feedback on the draft statement of work and draft specifications documents prior to issuance of the final RFP.

Prospective Offerors shall be advised that these draft documents contain International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR) sensitive information. In order to review the documents, all responsible sources must be certified by the Joint Certification Program (JCP) administered by the Defense Logistic Information Service (DLIS) to be eligible to download documents marked Export Controlled. This certification establishes that a company is a U.S. or Canadian contractor eligible to receive unclassified technical data that is under the control of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) or the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND). Please provide your approved Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement (DD2345) form to the NASA contract specialist for verification. Once verification is complete, the contract specialist will provide these Export Controlled documents to the offeror(s). 

All input shall be submitted in writing e-mail to Ryan Hancock at joseph.r.hancock@nasa.gov or Ross Henry at ross.m.henry@nasa.gov no later than August 25, 2016. Telephone questions and comments will not be accepted.

Disclaimer: It is not NASA/GSFC's intent to publicly disclose vendor proprietary information obtained during this solicitation. To the full extent that it is protected pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act and other laws and regulations, information identified by a respondent as Proprietary or Confidential will be kept confidential. The Government shall not beheld liable for any damages incurred if proprietary information is not properly identified. It is emphasized that this amendment to the synopsis is NOT a Request for Proposal, Quotation, or Invitation for Bid. This amendment is for information and planning purposes only and is subject to FAR Clause 52.215-3 entitled Solicitation for Information or Planning Purposes. This amendment is NOT to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contractual agreement, nor will the Government pay for information submitted in response to this amendment.

Added: Aug 08, 2016 4:23 pm NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the following items: Restore-L Rendezvous Proximity Operations (RPO) subsystem visible wavelength spaceflight cameras.  This camera system consists of the following major components: a stray light rejection baffle system, an optical system (lens), and the camera body (including the detector, processor, electrical interface, etc.). The selected offeror will be responsible for the design, fabrication, integration and test and requirements verifications for all camera components.  

The anticipated RFP will also include options for a) an additional engineering development unit (EDU) camera, b) multiple camera digital emulators, and c) multiple camera digital emulators with an added image generation capability.  Definitions, capabilities and technical requirements for these various options will be outlined in the camera technical specification document.

The NAICS Code and Size Standard are 333316 and 1,000 Employees respectively.

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 contractual and technical questions must be submitted in writing e-mail to Ryan Hancock at joseph.r.hancock@nasa.gov, no later than August 23, 2016. Telephone questions will not be accepted.