SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- HUMAN HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
- Notice Date
- 3/13/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ12399614L
- Archive Date
- 3/13/2013
- Point of Contact
- Perry L. Mueller, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-483-7158, Fax 281-244-0995, Email perry.l.mueller@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Perry L. Mueller
(perry.l.mueller@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/JSC is requesting information from industry regarding potential organizationalconflicts of interest (OCI) arising from the Human Health and Performance Contract(HHPC).The nature of the work anticipated under HHPC may create a situation, where there couldbe a potential for an OCI as currently described in FAR Subpart 9.5. Each potentialofferor should review FAR Subpart 9.5 in light of NASAs anticipation of OCI issues andconsider carefully the extent to which an OCI may arise before making the decision tocompete for the HHPC.Specifically, NASA anticipates that the effort under HHPC will include the followingtypes of tasks which could lead to potential OCI issues. This list is not all inclusive. Regulatory oversight responsibilities for other contractors at Johnson Space Center; Assessment of component and system designs, analysis, and models developed for theOrion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV); Assessment of component and system designs, analysis, and models developed for theInternational Space Station (ISS) or Extravehicular Activities (EVA); Assessment of component and system designs, analysis, and models developed for thecommercial crew or cargo providers; Assessment of hardware designs, analysis, models developed for the JSC Space LifeSciences Directorate and/or the Engineering Directorate by Contractors, Grantees, andSpace Act Agreement Participants other than the HHPC Contractor; Assessment of new technology disclosures (aka invention disclosures) including, forexample, new and novel hardware, software, processes, and composition of matter submittedby Contractors, Grantees, and Space Act Agreement Participants other than the HHPCContractor; Access to Government Sensitive Information such as pre-decisional informationassociated with on-going or future NASA projects that may result in future competitiveprocurements; Access to a Contractor, Grantee, and Space Act Agreement Participants proprietaryinformation, where said Contractor, Grantee, and Space Act Agreement Participant is notthe HHPC Contractor; Design, development, test and evaluation including certification and fabrication ofhardware including flight hardware and software. These types of tasks could lead to the following categories of OCI issues depending onthe composition of the team selected for the HHPC contract: Unequal access to nonpublic information of the type that may provide the HHPCContractor an unfair competitive advantage in a later competition for a governmentprocurement contract; Potential impaired objectivity if the HHPC contractor or its subcontractors areassessing data developed by themselves, related companies (e.g., affiliates, jointventures, partnerships, etc.), or subcontractors; Potential impaired objectivity if the HHPC contractor or its subcontractors or relatedcompanies are responsible for assessing or performing safety and mission assurance forhardware or data generated by the HHPC contractor, its subcontractors, or relatedcompanies under another JSC contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or Space ActAgreement; Potentially creating biased ground rules by providing technical assessments to NASA onspecific technologies and methodologies that may affect NASAs preparation of aspecification of work, other contractual requirements, or NASAs evaluation of proposalsin a future competitive procurements. A link to the NASA Guide on Organizational Conflicts of Interest has been posted to theHHPC procurement website at: http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/hhpc. Please referencethis document for additional information about NASAs policies with respect to OCIissues. You are requested to provide electronic responses via e-mail to the ContractingOfficer listed at the end of this synopsis. Your response is requested by 5:00 p.m.local time on March 30, 2012. Potential offerors are requested to address the followingquestions: 1. What type of OCI issues would your company or potential team identify, if any, shouldyou choose to propose on the HHPC contract? 2. What strategies would you anticipate proposing to mitigate the OCI issues that youidentified (if any)? Please provide strategy details, previous examples/experience withother contracts with NASA or other agencies, etc.3. Are there any other types of potential OCI issues with the proposed HHPC contract thatwere not identified in this RFI?4. Does your company foresee any OCI issues associated with the HHPC that would cause youto decide not to propose on the potential HHPC RFP?NASA intends to assess any responses received regarding potential OCI and each offerorsproposed OCI mitigation strategy, responding to each company who submits a mitigationstrategy in writing. NASAs response will simply be an attempt to preliminarily examinepossible circumstances which might lead to or eliminate an OCI. It will not be aconfirmation that, in fact, an OCI will ultimately exist or that an offeror cansuccessfully eliminate or mitigate an OCI. Furthermore, the response in no way alters orinterprets the application of FAR 9.5 as it applies to a final statement of work or afinal proposal submission, should a potential offeror elect to submit a proposal inresponse to an RFP issued under a solicitation for HHPC. Subsequent to the initialsubmission and response, the Government will not consider further information as itrelates to this RFI.The documents on the NASA procurement website are for information and planning purposes,to allow industry the opportunity to comment, and to promote competition only.NASA willnot affirmatively release any information received in response to this RFI to the public,but may use information received in developing the best approach for a contract strategy,and therefore such information may be recognizable to the potential offeror who submittedit. Any information submitted in response to this RFI that is marked as ConfidentialCommercial or Financial Information will be considered as voluntarily submitted inaccordance with the Freedom of Information Act.The Government intends to release the names, addresses, and points of contact of allrespondents unless specifically requested not to do so by the respondent. All questionsshould be directed to the point of contact identified below. In accordance with FAR15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by theGovernment to form a binding contract.The Government is under no obligation to issue asolicitation or to award any contract on the basis of this RFI. The Government will notpay for any information solicited under this RFI. No solicitation exists; therefore, donot request a copy of a solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will besynopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service.It is thepotential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of anysolicitation or synopsis.
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