Fill and Drain Valves for the Europa Clipper Mission

NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for fifteen (15) fill and drain valves which consists of twelve (12) flight Service Valves and three (3) spare Service Valves for the Europa Clipper Mission. The Europa Mission is being formulated and implemented by joint partnership between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Applied Physics Laboratory, with NASA/GSFC building the propulsion system for the Applied Physics Laboratory. The Government anticipates a release date for the Request for Proposal (RFP) in February 2018, with an anticipated offer due date in March 2018. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR part 12. This procurement will be a full and open competition. Small Business goals for this procurement are not anticipated. It is anticipated the resulting contract will be a Firm-Fixed-Price contract. The NAICS Code and Size Standard are 336415 and 1,250 employees, respectively. All responsible sources may submit an offer when applicable, which shall be considered by the agency. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at https://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html The solicitation and any documents related to the procurement will be available over the internet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this Internet site (www.fbo.gov) 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). Contracting Office Address: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.M Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 United States