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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 13,1999 PSA#2430NASA/John F. Kennedy Space Center, Procurement, Kennedy Space Center,
FL 32899 V -- NEXT GENERATION LAUNCH SERVICES (NGLS) ACQUISITION DUE 092499 POC
Thomas D. Tokmenko, Contracting Officer, Phone (407) 867-8350, Fax
(407) 867-8351, Email Thomas.Tokmenko-1@ksc.nasa.gov -- Sharon L.
White, Contracting Officer, Phone 407-867-8340, Fax 407-867-8341, Email
Sharon.White-1@ksc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information
about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/KSC/date.html#NGLS.
E-MAIL: Thomas D. Tokmenko, Thomas.Tokmenko-1@ksc.nasa.gov. THIS IS NOT
A NOTICE OF SOLICITATION ISSUANCE. NASA Kennedy Space Center is hereby
soliciting information for potential sources for the following: Next
Generation Launch Services (NGLS) Acquisition This Request for
Information (RFI) is being issued by NASA Kennedy Space Center, NASA's
Lead Center for the Acquisition and Management of Expendable Launch
Vehicle (ELV) Launch Services. This RFI seeks comments/statements of
interest in a Next Generation Launch Services Acquisition. In January
1999, the NASA Administrator signed the NASA Launch Services Risk
Mitigation Policy for NASA owned, NASA sponsored payloads (NASA Policy
Directive 8610.7). Under this policy, NASA has established three tiers
of risk for NASA payloads based upon launch vehicle demonstrated flight
history. The categories are defined as: Category 1: launch vehicles
with no demonstrated flight history Category 2: launch vehicles that
have demonstrated at least one successful launch Category 3: launch
vehicles with a demonstrated 95% reliability @ 50% confidence level (14
consecutive successful launches) In October 1998, NASA Kennedy Space
Center awarded contracts for launch services for vehicles in the
Category 2 risk category under the Small Expendable Launch Vehicle
Services -- Kennedy Space Center (SELVS-KSC) Acquisition. The NASA
Launch Services (NLS) acquisition currently underway (Draft Request For
Proposals (DRFP) 10-99-0021) is focused on Category 2 and Category 3
launch vehicle services. This notice is to seek industry
comments/statements about NASA's possible acquisition of launch
services for Category 1 vehicles, those with no prior demonstrated
flights. NASA's recent Space Transportation Architect Studies provided
the Agency greater insight into the plans of emerging next generation
launch systems. NASA is seeking information about the feasibility of
establishing a contractual mechanism to take advantage of new domestic
services as they become available. Accordingly, NASA is considering
the possibility of soliciting proposals from industry in early calendar
year 2000 for launch services of NASA sponsored Category 1 payloads.
NASA has a series of university class explorers, university earth
science missions and small technology payloads that might be suitable
for the risk associated with first flight of a new launch system. It is
possible that many launch systems may offer greater performance than
NASA requires, resulting in NASA payloads flying as a secondary or
co-manifested basis with other commercial and/or government payloads.
Vehicles completing a successful launch under the NGLS acquisition
approach might then potentially be eligible to participate under other
NASA Category 2 launch services contract vehicles. NASA is interested
in determining how many potential participants there may be, and what
concerns or performance issues potential participants might want NASA
to consider. Please send all comments/statements of interest to this
notice by September 24, 1999 to Mr. Tom Tokmenko at the following
address: NASA, Kennedy SpaceCenter Mailcode SEB-NLS Kennedy Space
Center, FL 32899 Telephone: (407) 867-8350 Fax: (407) 867-8351 E-Mail:
Thomas.Tokmenko-1@ksc.nasa.gov An ombudsman has been appointed -- See
Internet Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this
procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will
be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0)
format and will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be
accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL,
for the NASA/KSC Business Opportunities home page is
http://www.procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/KSC/class.html. It is the offeror's
responsibility to monitor the Internet cite for the release of the
solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be
responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and
amendments, if any. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following
URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html Posted 09/08/99
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