SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs Secretariat Support - Package #1
- Notice Date
- 1/11/2011
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 928120
— International Affairs
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office, SSMC4 - Room 7601/OFA61, 1305 East West Highway, 7th Floor, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910
- ZIP Code
- 20910
- Solicitation Number
- EE133E-11-RQ-0213
- Archive Date
- 2/10/2011
- Point of Contact
- Joel L. Perlroth, Phone: (301) 713-9204 x143
- E-Mail Address
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joel.l.perlroth@noaa.gov
(joel.l.perlroth@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Justification for other than Full and Open Competition The Office of Space Commercialization (OSC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, is responsible for implementing space-related policies and promotion of capabilities of the U.S. commercial space industry. The Office assists U.S. commercial providers in their efforts to expand their business with the U.S. Government and promotes commercial provider investment by performing economic analysis on space markets. OSC acts as an industry advocate within the executive branch of the Federal Government to maximize the use of commercially available space goods and services, reduce legal and regulatory impediments, and ensure the government does not compete with the U.S. commercial space industry. The December 8, 2004 U.S. Space-Based Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Policy authorized a new comprehensive national policy that established guidance and implementation actions for space-based positioning, navigation and timing programs, augmentations and activities for U.S. national and homeland security, civil, scientific and commercial purposes. This policy established the National Spaced-Based PNT Executive Committee, co-chaired by the Deputy Secretaries of the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation, to manage the dual use (civil/military) GPS and established the National Space- Based PNT Coordination Office. The new policy directs the Coordination Office to: 1.1.1. Develop and implement processes and relationships with Executive Committee members to facilitate information sharing, coordination, and issue resolution regarding Department and Agency program plans, requirements, budgets, and policies for operation of U.S. space-based PNT systems and services. 1.1.2. Coordinate Department and Agency PNT program plans, requirements, budgets, and policies, and assess the adequacy of funding and schedules to facilitate the timely integration and deconfliction of requirements for space-based PNT capabilities. 1.1.3. Evaluate plans to modernize the U.S. space-based PNT infrastructure, including development, deployment, and operation of new and/or improved national security and civil services that exceed, or are at least equivalent to, foreign space-based PNT services. 1.1.4. Review Department and Agency proposals on international cooperation that require interagency coordination, such as spectrum management and protection issues, and provide recommendations to the Executive Committee. 1.1.5. Conduct or oversee space-based PNT studies, analyses, and projects with a National benefit beyond the scope of a single Department or Agency, to include an assessment of ongoing Department and Agency efforts that may benefit from broader U.S. Government participation. 1.1.6. Represent the Executive Committee on space-based PNT matters within the Government, the public sector, and with representatives of foreign governments and international organizations, as appropriate, in carrying out assigned responsibilities and functions. 1.1.7. Assess the functions established under the former Interagency Global Positioning System Executive Board structure, and make appropriate recommendations to the Executive Committee regarding final disposition. 1.1.8. Assess additional interagency PNT functions and responsibilities against those assigned to the Executive Committee in accordance with the U.S. Space-Based PNT Policy and make recommendations as appropriate. 1.1.9. Administer the National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board, a Federal Advisory Committee, in coordination with the host Department. Have responsibility for the development of requirements for civil applications from all U.S. Government civil Departments and Agencies. In 1958, shortly after the launching of the first artificial satellite, the General Assembly decided to establish an adhoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (resolution 1348 (XIII)), with 18 members, in order to consider the activities and resources of the United Nations, the specialized agencies and other international bodies relating to the peaceful uses of outer space; international cooperation and programmes in the field that could appropriately be undertaken under United Nations auspices; organizational arrangements to facilitate international cooperation in the field within the framework of the United Nations; and legal problems which might arise in programmes to explore outer space. In 1959, the General Assembly established the Committee as a permanent body and reaffirmed its mandate in resolution 1472 (XIV). The United States of America was one of the 18 original members and remains a current member. The United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs is the secretariat for the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Justification The services required by OSC are available from only one responsible source, United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, with whom the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Space Commercialization is party to. OSC shall be the principal unit for space commerce policy activities within NOAA and the U.S. Department of Commerce, with responsibilities to include: 1. Coordinate space commerce policy issues and actions within NOAA and the U.S. Department of Commerce. 2. Represent the Department in the development of U.S. policies and in negotiations with foreign countries to promote U.S. space commerce. 3. Assist commercial space companies in their efforts to do business with the U.S. Government, and act as industry's advocate within the Executive Branch to ensure the Government meets its space-related requirements, to the maximum practical extent, with commercially available space goods and services, consistent with national security. 4. Work to ensure the U.S. Government does not engage in space-related activities that preclude, deter, or compete with U.S. commercial space activities unless required by national security or public safety. 5. Seek the removal of legal, policy, and institutional impediments to space commerce. 1.0 Scope OSC shall provide one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs in exchange for their services identified below. The United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, with whom the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Space Commercialization is party to, shall provide secretariat services for the Director of the National Space-Based PNT Coordination Office. The agreement establishes secretariat services for the following five United Nations Programme on Space Applications activities: The five activities that are the subject of this agreement include: 1. United Nations/European Space Agency Basic Science Workshops United Nations/European Space Agency Basic Science Workshops are held in an effort in furthering knowledge and experience of space applications around the world. Provision of in-country capacity-building, education, research and development support and technical advisory services by the Programme help create conditions under which the developing countries benefit. To assure the United Nations/European Space Agency workshops do not create a duplication of efforts with other activities in the United Nation framework, the workshops context are clearly defined to cover: fundamental physics; astronomy and astrophysics; solar-terrestrial interaction and its influence on terrestrial climate; planetary and atmospheric studies; and origin of life and exo-bilogy. The applicable techniques used as tools for the pursuance of basic space science research are: ground-based optical, and radio observations; radio and optical telescopes with associated equipment; remote sensing, both from the ground and from space; all measurements from ground-inaccessible windows which can only be made through the use of instruments and telescopes in Earth orbit; and in-situ measurements from rocket, balloon and satellite platforms. 2. United Nations Platform for Space-Based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) The mission for the UN-SPIDER United Nations Programme is to ensure that all countries and international and regional organizations have access to and develop the capacity to use all types of space-based information to support the full disaster management cycle. UN-SPIDER programme focuses on ensuring access to and use of making space technologies available for humanitarian and emergency response and all phases of the disaster management cycle, including the risk reduction phase, to reduce the loss of lives and property. UN-SPIDER programme serves as a bridge to connect the disaster management and space communities and as facilitator of capacity-building and institutional strengthening, in particular for developing countries. 3. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space This committee is to provide a focal point international cooperation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space, to maintain close contact with governmental and non-governmental organizations concerned with outer space matters; to provide for the exchange of such information relating to outer space activities as Governments may supply on a voluntary basis, supplementing, but not duplicating, existing technical and scientific exchanges; and to assist in the study of measures for the promotion of international cooperation in outer space activities. 4. Legal Subcommittee The Legal Subcommittee is responsible to craft legal engines for the growth of space; to implement the Outer Space treaty in national law in light of current and foreseeable space activities; create space legislation as enhancer of space activities and policies; consider economic impacts of national space legislation and the establishment of fair conditions for commercial activities; and ensure accompanying space regulations are safe in-orbit operation and interoperability. 5. Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education The United Nations inititiated a project aimed at the establishment of regional centres for space science and technology education at existing research and higher education institutions. Each centre is conceived as an institution. The principal goal of each centre is the development of the skills and knowledge of university educators and research and applications scientists, through theory, research, applications, field exercises, and pilot projects in those aspects of space science and technology. The programmes of each centre focuses on: remote sensing and geographic information systems; meteorological satellite applications; satellite communications and geopositioning systems; and space and atmospheric sciences. In addition, the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs shall continue to provide secretariat support for the activities of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems in promoting the use of GNSS technologies. ICG reaches out to developing countries to promote the use of space-based positioning, navigation and timing applications and address technical issues. Such outreach broadens the eventual reach of the market place for space-based PNT products and services. ICG activities include: supporting the establishment of practical reference frames and GNSS performance monitoring; increasing awareness of protecting the GNSS spectrum from interference and providing assistance to developing countries in identifying and eliminating sources of electromagnetic interference; and increasing educational opportunities related to GNSS application and use. At ICG-1, the Terms of Reference were adopted, maintaining the non-binding, informal nature of the ICG. The U.S. sees an ongoing and future role of the ICG to: • Promote communication and cooperation between operators and users of GNSS and their augmentations; • Encourage the international growth and potential benefits of GNSS applications; • Promote the introduction and utilization of satellite positioning, navigation and timing services particularly in developing countries, through assistance with the integration of GNSS services in their infrastructures; • Assist both the members of the Committee and the international user community by serving as the focal point for international information exchange related to GNSS activities; and • Inform ICG members of efforts to pursue greater compatibility and interoperability among all current and future systems in terms of spectrum, signal structures, time standards, and geodetic reference frames to the maximum extent possible. The ICG represents an unparalleled opportunity for the U.S. to promote the application and use of GPS as the core of an international system of GNSS that are compatible and interoperable with GPS. The support for the workshops and committees provided by the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs is consistent with U.S. space-based PNT policy and in order to enable focused discussions on compatibility and interoperability among current and future global and regional space-based systems, and promotion of systems based on GPS, the U.S. encouraged the support. 2.0 Special Requirements OSC, in coordination with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs, will determine the need and/or priority of the specific tasks and appropriate level of resource utilization. Personnel shall be screened in accordance with the requirements for Low Risk contracts as specified by CAM 1337.70 section 2.2; specifically, in accordance with CAR 1352.237-71, Security Processing Requirements-Low Risk Contracts (April 2010). Any access by contract personnel who are Foreign Nationals shall be in accordance with the requirements of CAR 1352.237-73, Foreign National Visitor and Guest Access to Departmental Resources (APR 2010). The contractor shall comply with the IT Security requirements of the Department of Commerce as outlined in Commerce Acquisition Regulation (CAR) 1352.239-72, Security Requirements For Information Technology Resources (April 2010), except that development of a Security Accreditation Package in accordance with CAR 1352.239-72, section (i) is not required. 3.0 Period of Performance The Period of Performance for this task is from February 1, 2011 through July 31, 2011. This requirement does not contain any additional option periods.
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