THE PURPOSE OF THIS RFI IS TO CLEARLY SEPARATE THE REQUEST AND REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SES PROCUREMENT FROM THE METSII PROCUREMENT.
METSII information can continue to be found under RFI#NNG08269474L.
GSFC plans to compete and award an 8(a) contract for Software Engineering Support (SES). This RFI will include the work of the Software Engineering Division, Code 580, including flight and ground software development, science processing, and mission ground, flight and science system development/engineering.
The Software Engineering Support (SES) contract will provide support for the core business of the Division which encompasses the design, development, test, deployment and maintenance of software, data and information systems that support aerospace missions both in development and on-orbit. The scope of the contract will also include support for Division managed development/test labs, test facilities, and the technical operations of the Division.
GSFC currently expects to award the contract as cost-plus-fixed-fee level-of-effort (LOE); however, we are soliciting industry feedback on the appropriateness of our choice of contract type. GSFC anticipates release of the SES draft RFP in February 2009. Industry comments to the draft RFP would be due 2 weeks after draft RFP release. Final RFP has an anticipated release 7 weeks after the draft RFP. We anticipate that the RFP will require submission of proposals within 45 days. The anticipated award date for the contract is February 2010, after completion of 30-60 day phase-in purchase order.
NASA/GSFC requests industry feedback related to the procurement strategy elements that are included in this RFI. Interested 8(a) organizations are requested to submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort. Responses (30-page maximum including attachments) must include the following: name and address of firm, size of business; average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees; ownership; 8(a) status (e. g., time remaining in 8(a) program); number of years in business; affiliate information, if any: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); list of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact - address and phone number). Specific engineering examples of relevant experience, including detailed descriptions, are recommended. To facilitate a prompt review by the NASA team, a one-page summary shall be included with your capability statement(s), which identifies your company’s specific capabilities that are relevant to the requirement. The summary page will not count against the maximum page limit. It is insufficient to provide only general brochures or generic information. Industry feedback related to the procurement strategy set forth in this RFI will be excluded from the 30-page limit for capability statements. All other non-8(a) interested parties may submit there interest (including point of contact, phone, address, and e-mail) to the procurement contact; however, capabilities statements will not be reviewed.
Capability statements submitted under the previous RFI#NNG08269474L for SES will have to be resubmitted in response to this RFI.
We intend to release the names, addresses, and points of contact of all respondents unless specifically requested not to do so by the respondent.
SES questions should be directed, as follows, to:
Technical: Michael Oben 301-286-8540 (michael.f.oben@nasa.gov) or Jerome Bennett 301-286-8623 (Jerome.d.bennett@nasa.gov). Procurement: Ms. Kelly Jonas, 301-286-4240 (Kelly.d.jonas@nasa.gov).
This sources sought synopsis is for informational and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government; nor will the Government pay for any information solicited. Since this is a sources sought announcement, no evaluation letters and/or results will be issued to the respondents. You are requested to provide electronic responses via e-mail to the Procurement Point of Contact (POC) listed above indicating your organization’s interest. Your response is required by 1:00 p.m. local time on December 26, 2008.
No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offeror’s responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis.
The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26.
To assist industry in reviewing this division of work, attached is a statement of scope for this contract. Note that this statement of scope includes some flight software development and maintenance and mission operations software engineering development currently obtained on a large business contract. We will supplement the SES statement of scope with additional details as they are developed. Those supplements will be linked to this site as soon as they are available.
The NAICS Code and Size Standard for this procurement is 541712 and 1000 employees (see exceptions).
This notice separates SES from the previous RFI #NNG08269474L. RFI #NNG08269474L will remain for METS II only. Companies should submit (or resubmit) capabilities statements for this procurement as detailed in the above paragraphs even if the new submittal is largely or wholly the same as the previously submitted capability statement.
