GULFSTREAM-IV NEXT GENERATION AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (AirSAR-NG) MODIFICATION

Update 2 dated 05Apr2024: Reference attached document 80AFRC24R00080002 for an update to solicitation 80AFRC24R0008 to address the following areas: 1) Provide answers to questions received from industry in attachment 80AFRC24R0008-Questions From Industry. 2) Replace solicitation document 80AFRC24R0008-Solicitation with the document titled 80AFRC24R0008-Solicitation 27MAR2024. 3) Provide industry with photos of the aircraft with the attachment titled 80AFRC24R0008-Photos of the OML of SN 1199. 4) Replace solicitation document 80AFRC24R0008-Statement of Work with the document titled 80AFRC24R0008-Statement of Work 29MAR2024. Update 1 dated 26Mar2024: The proposal and past performance questionnaire due date is extended to April 22, 2024 at 10:00am PT. Reference attached document 80AFRC24R00080001. In reference to notice 80AFRC23SS011 the Interested Vendors List is provided in the attached document 80AFRC24R0008-Interested Vendors List. You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Armstrong Flight Research Center's Gulfstream-IV Next Generation Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR-NG) Modification solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide a more capable, versatile, and maintainable AirSAR platform. To meet this objective, the UAVSAR instrument is being redesigned and replaced. The new design will enable more hardware to be housed in the aircraft cabin. Three SAR antennas will be mounted on the aircraft fuselage in new conformal enclosures, eliminating the need for an external pod. This requirement is to design, fabricate, and install a fuselage blister and ventral canoe on a NASA Gulfstream-IV aircraft. NASA will conduct this acquisition as a full and open competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 488190 and the small business size standard is 40 million. This competitive acquisition will result in a Firm-Fixed Price contract. The contract period of performance criteria is listed in Section 6.0 Period of Performance of Attachment 1. The anticipated contract award and effective date is May 29, 2024. The contract will be performed: Offsite at the Contractor's facilities. Potential offerors should pay close attention to all solicitation instructions; however, the following requirements list is summarized to assist in proposal development. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and the solicitation terms and conditions and provisions in Sections L and M take precedence: The Government will make available existing Installation-Accountable Government Property (IAGP) for onsite contract performance and Government Furnished Property (GFP) for offsite use at the Contractor's facility as described in the RFP. Be advised, in accordance with Instructions to Offerors in Section L of the solicitation starting on page L-7, offerors need to encourage their references to submit their Past Performance Questionnaires directly to the Contracting Officer prior to proposal due date. Below is a list of the Source Selection Authority (SSA) and voting members along with their associated NASA AFRC organizational codes, for the Source Evaluation Board (SEB). The names provided are for informational purposes only and other than the Contracting Officer, Angela Stinchfield, these individuals shall not be contacted regarding this acquisition. The Government may change personnel associated with this acquisition at its discretion. SSA Michael Thomson (AFRC-320) Voting Members Franzeska Becker (AFRC-210) Ting Tseng (AFRC-510) Matthias Gastler (AFRC-430) Offerors are required to have a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code that matches the corporate address submitted with its proposal. Offerors are encouraged to refer to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision 52.215-1, INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS'COMPETITIVE ACQUISITION, in particular paragraph (f)(4) which discusses the Government's right to award a contract without discussions. In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by the Government and its Contractors, NASA policy requires all acquisition-related documents be released in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). While the RFP's Price Volume exhibits are in PDF format, the Offeror's Price Volume proposal shall include completed Price Volume exhibits in Microsoft Office Excel format with working cell formulas. Documents related to this acquisition, including this letter, the solicitation, attachments, exhibits, any amendments and links to online reference/technical/bidders library will be attainable electronically from the World Wide Web through the Government-wide point of entry website at www.SAM.gov. Potential Offerors are requested to periodically monitor the websites for updates. Appendix 1 NASA Conceptual Design must be requested by the offeror. All other requests for documents which may be referenced in the solicitation and not available to the general public must be made via e-mail to Kimberly Beck at kimberly.a.beck-1@nasa.gov and Angela Stinchfield at angela.t.stinchfield@nasa.gov. The request must contain the specific document name, as well as the name of the requestor, company name, and Unique Entity ID. All document requests must be received no later than April 1, 2024 at 10:00am PT. NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) 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. This RFP does not commit NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center to procure or contract for these services. This request is not an authorization to proceed, and does not authorize payment for any charges incurred by the offeror for performing any of the work called for in this solicitation. Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than April 8, 2024 at 10:00am PT. Proposals for this solicitation are required to be submitted through NASA's Enterprise File Sharing and Sync Box (EFSS Box), a FedRAMP Moderate certified platform. Potential offerors, especially those that have not previously submitted a proposal utilizing NASA's EFSS Box, are encouraged to review the solicitation instruction entitled - Electronic Proposal Delivery - Proposal Marking and Delivery Through NASA's EFSS Box which provides instructions related to the submission of proposal via EFSS Box. Offerors are encouraged to check with their corporate IT staff to determine if there are firewall restrictions that would need to be addressed prior to the submission of proposal files through NASA's EFSS Box. All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted electronically, in writing, to Angela Stinchfield, Contracting Officer, at angela.t.stinchfield@nasa.gov and Kimberly Beck, Contract Specialist, at kimberly.a.beck-1@nasa.gov on or before March 13, 2024 at 10:00am PT. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration. Thank you for your support. We look forward to receiving your proposals.