SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS AND BATTERY DESIGN
- Notice Date
- 8/17/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 335911
— Storage Battery Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BH
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ12ZBH007L
- Response Due
- 8/30/2012
- Archive Date
- 8/17/2013
- Point of Contact
- Rochelle N Overstreet, Contract Specialist, Phone 281-483-6768, Fax 281-483-4066, Email rochelle.n.overstreet@nasa.gov - LaToy J. Jones, Contracting Officer, Phone 281-244-8023, Fax 281-483-4066, Email latoy.j.jones@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Rochelle N Overstreet
(rochelle.n.overstreet@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is hereby soliciting information about and potential sources for electrochemical cells and battery design, certification and delivery for two battery designs for human space flight application on the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the lithium ion Rechargeable Extravehicular Activity Battery Assembly (LREBA) and the lithium ion Pistol Grip Tool battery assembly (LPGT) project. NASA/JSC 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 electrochemical cells and battery design procurement. 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, please do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. REQUIREMENTS: The LPGT battery will be used to power the Pistol Grip Tool, a powered, ratcheting torque wrench. The LREBA battery will be used to power spacesuit accessory items including a video recorder, helmet lights and glove tip heaters. The two batteries provide power to devices that enhance spacewalk performance. The LPGT and LREBA batteries will be serviced using rack-mounted battery servicing equipment currently under development in a series-before-parallel format with capability of charging at either 12VDC or 24VDC. The electrochemical cells will be used in the battery assemblies. The electrochemical cells and the resulting batteries must be manufactured, tested and qualified to the highest standards consistent with human space flight hardware. This solicitation is limited to the electrochemical cells, battery design, and certification.It does not include development of the charger or spacesuit harnessing for connecting battery to load. Current battery development strategy is based on a combination of separate procurement actions consisting of product awards for acquisition of the electrochemical cells; service contract award for cell testing services; and service contract award for design, certification, and delivery of flight-rated batteries.Information is requested if alternate procurement approaches can enhance delivery cost or schedule. Sources are sought for acquisition of electrochemical cells; cell testing services; and for design, certification, and delivery of flight-rated batteries. Candidate electrochemical cells will be tested to determine which offers the greatest performance, workmanship, manufacturing quality and tolerance to worst case abuse. Acquisition of between two and four electrochemical cell designs are sought per end item. No more than two candidate cell lots will be electrically tested to determine lot performance uniformity. Cell lots yielding a quantity of 800 with performance better than 3-sigma dispersion from lot average will be built into prototype batteries for simulated mission and battery performance testing. No more than two lots of cells will be used in the build of configuration controlled batteries which will be tested for either certification or acceptance. Acceptance testing batteries will be manifested for use in human spaceflight as required to support ISS EVA operations. The LPGT electrochemical cells shall satisfy the following: Minimum capacity of 1.45Ahr (1.65Ahr minimum is preferred) Nominal charge voltage of 4.2VDC 18500 specification Steel construction Lot quantities of 800 to 1200 having the same date code Date code no earlier than June 2011 UN recognized UL recognized Contain a positive thermal coefficient device Contain a current interrupt device and gas vent The LREBA electrochemical cells shall satisfy the following: Minimum capacity of 2.50Ahr Nominal charge voltage of 4.2VDC 18650 specification Steel construction Lot quantities of 800 to 1200 having the same date code Date code no earlier than June 2011 UN recognized UL recognized Contain a positive thermal coefficient device Contain a current interrupt device and gas vent Electrochemical cell testing requirements can be generalized as follows: Electrical performance tests - capacity, open circuit and close circuit voltage measurement, self-discharge, AC impedance, soft short Physical performance tests mass, dimensional, visual, leak integrity Destructive tests (hazardous tests performed by NASA JSC) DPA, over charge, over discharge, heat to vent, crush, burst Examinations to be performed by NASA JSC x-ray, CT scan Battery brick testing requirements can be generalized as follows: Electrical performance tests - capacity, open circuit and close circuit voltage measurement, self-discharge, AC impedance Physical performance tests mass, dimensional, press/depress, thermal cycling, visual Battery testing requirements can be generalized as follows: Electrical and Physical performance tests mass, AC impedance, capacity, open and closed circuit voltage Mission performance thermal vacuum cycles, vibration testing Abuse testing external short, bank reversal, over charge, over discharge The cell requirements have been derived from the following battery requirements. Each battery shall fit inside the volume defined by the previous battery design LPGT battery shall be not exceed an envelope 10cm (3.9in) wide by 13.5cm (5.31in) long by 6.23cm (2.45in) deep LREBA battery shall not exceed an envelope of 52.1cm (20.50in) by 26.7cm (10.50in) by 4.4cm (1.75in) Each battery shall be charged to cell bank voltage of 4.1Vdc (100% for these designs) Each battery shall be designed with no more than 5 parallel cell banks in series Each battery shall provide parallel cell bank voltage telemetry during charging Each battery shall be designed to have a shelf life of 10 years past the cell date code when stored at <50% state of charge and room temperature and pressure with no more than 900 days of storage at 100% state of charge Each battery shall have an operational life on the ISS of at least 7 years consisting of an average of 5 EVAs per year and ISS storage at 24 +/-8C (75+/-15F) and 0.7-1.0atm (10-15psia). The design goal for the battery operational life is 10 years Each battery shall deliver the required capacity following 200 cycles at 100% depth of discharge in vacuum with a starting temperature of 24 +/- 8C (75 +/- 15F) and subsequent exposure to temperature extremes of -84 to 88C (-120 to +190F) for 7 hours maximum (cycles derived from the required 50 EVAs using a scatter factor of 4) LPGT battery shall be capable of charging from a discharged state (28V CCV) to a fully charged state (36.9V CCV) within 8 hours with a charge input limited to 1.5A in a 6P-3S configuration LPGT battery shall be designed to operate continuously for a 7hr EVA in a 2P-9S configuration LPGT battery shall operate when charged to 12.3V maximum LPGT battery shall operate when powering the PGT between 28V and 36.9V LPGT battery shall deliver more than 82.5Whr above 28Vat beginning of life LPGT battery shall deliver more than 69.3Whr above 28V at end of life LPGT battery shall deliver a nominal power of 10W (0.3A at 33V) LPGT battery shall deliver 250W for 0.5sec no more often than once every 5secs, a maximum of 6 times, during each 7hr spacewalk LPGT battery shall deliver a minimum discharge capacity of 2.1Ahr above 28V at end of life LPGT power requirements assume ~20% performance degradation with room temperature storage at <50% state of charge and less than 200 capacity cycles between 3.1V and 4.1V and less than or equal to manufacture-specified charge rate LREBA shall be capable of charging from a discharged state (3.6V CCV/bank) to a fully charged state (4.1V/bank) within 16hrs with a charge input limited to 2.5A in a 15P-3S configuration LREBA shall be designed to operate continuously for a 9hr EVA in a 15P-3S configuration LREBA shall discharge within the closed circuit battery voltage range of 10.8V and 12.3V LREBA battery shall deliver more than 200Wh at 1.55A and 10C, beginning of life LREBA battery shall deliver at least 162Whr at 1.55A and 10C, end of life LREBA power requirements assume ~25% performance degradation with room temperature storage at <50% state of charge and less than 200 capacity cycles between 3.6V and 4.1V and less than or equal to manufacture-specified charge rate NASA JSC is expecting to deliver the following items in support of the battery development effort: Metallic housings Electrical connectors Conformal coated printed circuit boards populated with EEE components Electrical Design details Battery configuration control (drawings) Battery-level stress, material and thermal Analysis Hazardous cell test results (vent/burst, crush, destructive physical analysis) Analytical cell test results (computed tomography scan, x-ray) Top-assembly label (ISS and part marking) LREBA Garment LREBA Toggle switch, electrical connector and wiring harness LREBA battery brick layout details LPGT Jumper Cap, thermistor and wiring harness including PGT electrical connector LPGT battery brick layout details The following deliverables are expected from the sources sought: Test Readiness Review Test data and reports Design drawings Battery brick-level analysis products (materials, stress and thermal) Manufacturing Readiness Reviews Quality controlled manufacturing process Quality controlled testing, calibration and data preservation processes Quality controlled material handling process Battery brick configuration control Battery brick thermal analysis Battery brick stress analysis LREBA spare battery bricks, quantity 7 LREBA batteries, quantity 10 LPGT spare battery bricks, quantity 28 LPGT batteries, quantity 15 Interested offerors/vendors having the required specialized capabilities to meet the above requirements should submit the following in 10 pages or less: 1) A capability statement indicating the ability of the vendor and any subcontractors, including small businesses, to perform all aspects of the effort described herein. 2) Input regarding: a. Acquisition strategies from cell selection to the delivered battery, b. quality/manufacturing process c. cell availability 3) Input related to ability to acquire the specified lot cells and quantities. 4) Access to multiple cell manufacturer with lot traceability, i.e., LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo, etc. 5) Input regarding contract type, performance incentives period of performancewith supporting rationale. Interested offerors/vendors must also include the following in their response:name and address of firm, size of business; average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees; ownership; whether they are large, or any category of small business, number of years in business; affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); list of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact - address and phone number). 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. Any questions shall be submitted, via email, to La Toy J. Jones @ latoy.j.jones@nasa.gov and Rochelle Overstreet @ rochelle.n.overstreet@nasa.gov, no later than August 23, 2012. All responses in response to this synopsis shall be submitted, via email, to Rochelle Overstreet @ rochelle.n.overstreet@nasa.gov, and La Toy J. Jones @ latoy.j.jones@nasa.gov no later than August 30, 2012. Please reference NNJ12ZBH007L in any response.
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