SOLICITATION NOTICE
18 -- JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEM SPACECRAFT
- Notice Date
- 6/25/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 336414
— Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- SC-JPSS1
- Response Due
- 7/12/2010
- Archive Date
- 6/25/2011
- Point of Contact
- Sandra L. Marshall, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-2812, Fax 301-286-0237, Email Sandra.L.Marshall@nasa.gov - William H. Bolingbroke, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-286-6062, Fax 301-286-0530, Email william.h.bolingbroke@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Sandra L. Marshall
(Sandra.L.Marshall@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has a requirement to implement therestructuring of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System(NPOESS). The existing program was managed through a tri-agency organization. Thisgovernance is being eliminated, and the primary responsibility for meteorological andclimate data collection by the afternoon orbit satellites now resides with the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA).These satellites will provide civil weather forecasting andclimate data through a program now called the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Thistransition includes assuming responsibility for the in-process builds for fourinstruments and a ground system along with the need for a spacecraft. NASA/GSFC intends to issue a sole source procurement or a non-competitive delivery orderunder the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition contract to Ball Aerospace and TechnologiesCorporation (BATC) for a BCP 2000 spacecraft to be launched no later than 2014.The intent of the restructure directed by the Executive Office of the President was totransfer, to a NASA management structure, the existing complement of afternoon orbitinstruments and ground system, along with the provision of suitable spacecraft, asdetermined jointly by NASA and NOAA, to carry these instruments in the afternoon orbit. This spacecraft will serve as a back-up and replacement for, and would utilize the sameinstruments and same ground system as the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft. NPP was originally intended as a technology demonstration mission. However, delays inthe NPOESS program have resulted in NPP being used as an operational gap-fillermission. Since NPP was never intended to be an operational spacecraft there is someconcern as to its life expectancy. Therefore NASA has determined that the only availablecourse of action that meets the requirement to reduce the risk of a coverage gap in thecase of any premature failures of the NPP or its instruments is to procure, on a solesource basis, a suitable spacecraft, designated JPSS-1, that can be launched withoutunreasonable delay and carry the same suite of instruments as NPP. NOAA and NASA havedetermined that effectively mitigating the risks associated with NPP requires the launchof the JPSS-1 as early as possible, no later than 2014. NASA has determined that theonly suitable spacecraft is a BATC BCP 2000 spacecraft bus, as it is the only spacecraftthat can be launched and placed into service at a date sufficiently early to providemeaningful mitigation of this risk. Award to any other source would cause unacceptabledelays in fulfilling the agencys requirements to ensure data continuity for weather andstorm forecasting.Statutory authority for this sole source procurement is 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1) Only OneResponsible Source. However, any organization that believes they can provide these itemswithout any detrimental impact to the program mission should fully identify theirinterest and capabilities within 15 days after publication of the synopsis.Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform anyof these efforts in writing to the identified point of contact no later than 2:00 pm ESTon July 12, 2010. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for thepurpose 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 opencompetition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretionof the Government.Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.See Note26. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note B. Any referenced notesmay be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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