SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- EDUCATION AND TRAINING SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 6/3/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- RFOW-12571
- Response Due
- 6/16/2003
- Archive Date
- 6/3/2004
- Point of Contact
- Donna M Hardy, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 286-3936, Fax (301) 286-0356, Email dhardy@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov - Carolyn Gonser, Procurement Manager, Phone (301) 286-3294, Fax (301) 286-0357, Email Carolyn.S.Gonser.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Donna M Hardy
(dhardy@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA/HQ plans to extend Contract No. NASW-98010 entitled "NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP) Support" for NASA Headquarters, Code JE, Washington, DC, with TERC, Inc., for twelve months from the period July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004. It is anticipated that a follow-on Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) will be in place by April 15, 2004. This extension will provide continued performance during the interim period until the new Cooperative Agreement can be awarded. TERC is uniquely qualified to perform this requirement without substantial duplication of cost to the Government, due to its current involvement in this project. The statutory authority for Other Than Full and Open Competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the Agency's requirements. Only TERC, the current incumbent, has the required expertise and infrastructure in place to provide these services on short notice for the 2003/2004 school year. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. The focus of the NSIP is to develop student involvement program(s) that offer unique educational opportunities/experiences for participating students by providing: (a) an understanding of and doing scientific inquiry utilizing NASA missions and facilities; (b) hands on learning opportunities using the scientific process to work with emerging technologies; and (c) mentoring and more direct involvement by NASA scientists, engineers, and educators with students and the competitive process. In addition, NASA/HQ would like to enhance the desired direction of the NSIP follows: (1) Program modeled and built upon the philosophy and framework of science, mathematics, technology, and geography standards; (2) Competitions shall be designed to be articulate with education standards in order that teachers can better implement the processes into existing curricula; (3) Greater correlation and currency to NASA's Enterprises and their missions; (4) Increased emphasis on team involvement to facilitate students assimilating the workplace environment and experiences as early as possible while still maintaining individual excellence;(5) Increased student diversity and inclusion of additional students by incorporating K-2 into the program; (6) Incorporate multimedia opportunities into the competition process; (7) Increase "active" learning as part of the competitive process involving higher level thinking skills, e.g., research, design, develop, construct, test, analyze and redesign; (8) Increase and encourage student participation at regional symposia; (9) Incorporate a more rigorous program evaluation process; (10) In order to keep the program current, exciting and challenging, student research projects should incorporate such "challenging" areas as the Solar System, Flights (e.g., Space Shuttle - Space Experiment Module (SEM), Suborbital Rockets - Sub-SEM, International Space Station (ISS), KC-135, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), research balloons, etc.), Earth System Science, Art/Communication/Multimedia, Personal Computers, Aeronautics & Atmospheric Flight (e.g. computer modeling), Payload packaging/launch/deployment, Propulsion, Robotics, Space Science, Microgravity (e.g. drop tower), Life Sciences, Astrobiology. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact no later than 4:00 p.m. local time on June 10, 2003. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Submission of these capabilities should be by electronic mail in MICROSOFT WORD format to the following address: Donna.M.Hardy@nasa.gov Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B".
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