SOURCES SOUGHT
T -- INTEGRATED AIRCRAFT CAMERASYSTEM
- Notice Date
- 5/16/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541922
— Commercial Photography
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ12BH001L
- Response Due
- 6/13/2012
- Archive Date
- 5/16/2013
- Point of Contact
- Rhiannon Gabel, Contract Specialist, Phone 281-244-6708, Fax 281-244-5331, Email Rhiannon.gabel@nasa.gov - LaToy J. Jones, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-244-8023, Fax 281-483-4066, Email latoy.j.jones@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Rhiannon Gabel
(Rhiannon.gabel@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/JSC is hereby soliciting information about potential sources for an integrated aircraft and camera system to capture motion imagery of spacecraft launch and landing events that is suitable for photogrammetric measurements. Provide information on the capability for the aircraft to image an event under the following conditions: 1. Event occurring up to 700 nautical miles offshore 2. Operational altitude of at least 40,000 feet 3. Loiter time of 2 hours 4. Ability to support fluid space mission schedules that may include day by day slips of up to 10 days 5. Ability for a NASA camera operator to serve on the camera flight crew 6. Ability to accommodate two NASA event coordination personnel on the flight crew additional to the piloting crew and the camera crew Provide information on the capability for the aircraft-based imaging system to provide the following capabilities: 1. Visible and mid IR high definition motion imagery 2. Target tracking 3. Image stabilization 4. Limiting resolution of 2.5 to 4 inches for targets with a 10 kilometer line of sight to the sensor 5. Ability to continuously image a target using a camera unit tilt range of 90 degrees above to 30 degrees below (+90 to -30 degrees relative to) the aircrafts horizontal plane 6. Manually adjustable camera settings in addition to the availability of automatic exposure modes 7. Manual lens control capability during imagery capture 8. Real-time recording of all available imagery as a raw imagery product or as a compressed product that is as lossless as possible 9. GPS time code and state vector capture 10. Metadata that captures GPS time code, GPS aircraft state vector and camera/lens settings throughout the imagery event 11. Software for NASA imagery teams to access the imagery if the imagery is saved in a proprietary format 12. Real-time transmittal of imagery (desirable but not required) Does not have to be full resolution; Shall not degrade the primary imagery data that serves as the post flight product The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astromaterials Science and Research Science (ARES) Directorate is seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including Small, Small Disadvantaged (SDB), 8(a), Woman-owned (WOSB), Veteran Owned (VOSB), Service Disabled Veteran Owned (SD-VOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI) for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for the procurement of an airborne imaging capability to support space missions.The Government reserves the right to consider a Small, 8(a), Woman-owned (WOSB), Service Disabled Veteran (SD-VOSB), or HUBZone business set-aside based on responses hereto. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps, https://www.fbo.gov/, and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service, http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/nais/index.cgi. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Vendors having the capabilities necessary to meet or exceed the stated requirements are invited to submit appropriate documentation, literature, brochures, and references. Please advise if the requirement is considered to be a commercial or commercial-type product. A commercial item is defined in FAR 2.101. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. All responses shall be submitted via email to Rhiannon Gabel no later than June 13, 2012. Please reference NNJ12HB001L in any response.Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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- Record
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