NASA intends to award a sole-source bridge contract to SGT, Inc. pursuant to 10 U.S.C 2304(c)(1), Only One Responsible Source, in support of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA's GSFC) Flight Projects Directorate. This procurement will provide a bridge contract for a period of up to 6-months from October 28, 2008 through April 27, 2009 and will have a maximum ordering value to allow sufficient time to finalize contract award activities associated with the PAAC III procurement. This bridge contract will allow for performance on task orders, for modifications to task orders, and for new work until the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) follow-on contract activities are finalized. The bridge contract and maximum ordering value are necessary in order to ensure program continuity and critical mission support and to avoid significant technical and programmatic impacts to GSFC. The Goddard Space Flight Center has the responsibility for planning and managing spacecraft flight hardware systems, ground systems, launch vehicles, and research instrumentation payloads. This responsibility encompasses all phases of project implementation from conceptual studies through definition, design and development, fabrication, integration, launch, preparation for pre- and post-launch operations, satellite servicing, data acquisition, processing, distribution, analysis, and archiving. To develop and manage projects (present and future) and to respond to its assigned responsibilities, GSFC requires contractor services to include planning and scheduling, configuration management, management information systems, documentation/library, general business, and general accounting in support of the planning, managing, and executing of flight activity in the Flight Projects Directorate and supporting directorates. These requirements depend on the in-depth knowledge of NASA GSFC’s systems, management structure, and personnel. An interruption of those tasks, with a new contractor that is unfamiliar with NASA’s GSFC environment and the specific requirements of the PAAC contract, would greatly jeopardize the success of NASA GSFC’s implementation of critical and highly visible Agency programs.
The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26.
Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local time on October 10, 2008. 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.
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All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.
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