NASA/KSC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Kennedy Space Center Medical and Environmental Support Contract (MESC).
This acquisition will succeed the medical and environmental support efforts currently supplied under the expiring Joint Base Operations Support Contract, Life Sciences Services Contract, and Specialized Physician Support for Human Spacecraft Launches and Landings contract. The general MESC requirements include:
Occupational Health Support: operate onsite clinics, conduct physical examinations, operate fitness facilities, direct emergency medical services, manage employee medical records, and provide clinical laboratory services.
Environmental Health Support: provide industrial hygiene, health physics, sanitation services, regulatory consultation, conduct hazard assessments, prepare regulatory reports, and provide for laboratory analysis of workplace samples.
Environmental Support: conduct permit sampling, prepare regulatory reports, provide regulatory consultation, investigate spills, dispose of the Center’s hazardous and controlled waste, evaluate ecosystem change, monitor impacts from NASA launches on the environment, assist in regulatory surveillance, and conduct launch emissions modeling.
Aerospace Medicine: provide crew launch and landing medical support, develop launch incident medical support, coordinate with outside launch support entities, provide clinical laboratory analysis, and support prime crew and family medical evaluations.
Agency Occupational Health Program: provide technical support and Agency-wide program assessment.
This procurement is a total Small Business Set-Aside.
The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26.
The NAICS Code and Size Standard are 621111 and $9M, respectively.
The anticipated release date of the RFP, NNK07204121R, is on or about September 17, 2007.
An ombudsman has been appointed – See NASA Specific Note “B”.
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. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/KSC Business Opportunities home page is http://ibsr.ksc.nasa.gov/IBSR/default.cfm .
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). Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
