Exploration Extravehicular Activity (xEVA) Production and Services

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support the requirement for Exploration Extravehicular Activity (xEVA) Production and Services. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 336419, Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing, with a size standard of 1000 employees. NASA is seeking capabilities from all interested parties including all categories of Small Businesses and HBCU/MSIs for the purpose of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or Small Business and HBCU/MSI subcontracting goals for this requirement. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only, there is no solicitation at this time. This request for information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred nor will the respondents be notified of the results of the evaluation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps. It is the potential offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. If the Government issues a solicitation the government reserves the right to restrict the procurement to small businesses. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. In addition to capability statements, interested parties are requested to provide responses, to assist in NASA's preparation of a potential future solicitation, to the information found in the attached document. The attached document is for information and planning purposes, to allow industry the opportunity to comment, and to promote competition only. NASA will not 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 interested party who submitted it. Any information submitted in response to this RFI that is marked as "Confidential Commercial or Financial Information" will be considered as voluntarily submitted in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act. An Interested Vendors List is enabled within this FedBizOpps posting. This list is available to other vendors to allow potential offerors the opportunity to network. Parties that would like their information posted to the Interested Vendors List shall use the "Add Me to Interested Vendors" button. If a vendor would like to be removed from the Interested Vendors List, use the "Remove Me from Interested Vendors" button. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by November 4, 2019. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be submitted in accordance with the submission instructions found in the attached. Please reference 80JSC020xEVAPS in any response. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Government is under no obligation to issue a solicitation or to award any contract on the basis of this RFI. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html . If you have any questions concerning this opportunity, please contact: Vance Benton, at vance.benton@nasa.gov .