Marshall Engineering Technicians and Trades Support (METTS) Services

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including Small, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), Section 8(a), Women-owned Small Business (WOSB), Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI) for the purposes of determining the appropriate small business set-aside classification or small business subcontracting goals for the Marshall Engineering Technicians and Trades Support (METTS) Services III acquisition at MSFC. The anticipated services require a wide range of engineering technicians and other trade skills to perform testing; ground and space based research; test operations; data analysis; machine and electrical shop operations; and other technical activities. A total set-aside for small business participation, specifically the 8(a) program, is being considered for this acquisition. The MSFC technical requirements include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) - The Contractor will perform materials inspection and evaluation to support NASA and MSFC missions and objectives, and will support oversight of these inspection results. This testing includes, but is not limited to, ultrasonics (including phased array), liquid penetrant, magnetic particle, eddy current, and radiography (digital and computed). The Contractor will also perform analysis of all five (5) inspection methodologies listed above and provide the interpretation of those results to engineering according to acceptance criteria and documented inspection requirements. Contractor personnel performing these inspection methods must be qualified and certified to a Level II or higher by their company according to the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) or National Aerospace Standards (NAS) requirements. The Contractor will also provide engineering services in the area of advanced NDE methods for composites, additively manufactured parts, and non-metallics in general. This could include thermography and laser shearography as well as any other emerging methods that provide effective inspection and verification of NASA parts. Environmental Test Facility (ETF)/Experimental Fluid Dynamics Test Facility (EFDTF) Test Support - The Contractor will provide support services for all ETF and EFDTF designated work activities at each facility or at off-site facilities. The ETF consists of 27 environmental chambers and the associated systems and equipment. The EFDTF consists of the Inducer Test Loop, Pump Test Equipment, Nozzle Test, and Turbine Test Equipment facilities and also includes the Aerodynamic Research Facility and their associated systems and equipment. Each facility supports the design, development, certification, and operation of flight structures, payloads, systems, and components. The required services include, but are not limited to, maintenance, upgrades, modifications, facility and test article instrumentation installation and checkout, facility and test buildup and operation, refurbishment of existing facilities' systems and equipment, and the assembly of new facility capabilities required to accomplish the organization's mission. Environmental Effects Testing Support - The Contractor will provide support operations for Environmental Effects Testing including Impact Testing, Space Environmental Effects Testing, and Electrostatic Levitator system operations. Impact Testing Facility operations include hypervelocity, ballistic, and environmental gun capabilities that require integration of high pressure, high velocity impact guns with electronic data acquisition and control subsystems, as well as high speed videography subsystems. Space Environmental Effects (SEE) Testing includes materials exposed to space environments in order to accurately simulate a mission specific space environment within the laboratory, subject a material or system to that environment, and measure performance metrics after space environment exposure. Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) System Operations provide support to configure, modify, operate, and maintain the test systems and associated support equipment including vacuum hardware, operating control systems, data acquisition systems, and multiple class lasers. Structural Strength Test Support - The Contractor will provide support services for all structural strength test designated work activities at the MSFC on-site facilities or at off-site facilities. The various facilities have the capability to apply and react millions of pounds of mechanical loads in compression, tension, and laterally on various sizes, from small to very large, structural test articles. The on-site facilities include test cells, machine shop, fabrication and assembly areas, material handling systems, load control systems, data acquisition systems, test structures/stands, and other associated areas/systems. The required services include, but are not limited to, maintenance, upgrades, modifications, facility and test article instrumentation installation and checkout, facility and test buildup and operation, refurbishment of existing facilities' systems and equipment, and the manufacture and assembly of new facility capabilities required to accomplish the organization's mission. Fabrication and Assembly of R&D Space Flight and Associated Hardware - The Contractor will perform fabrication and assembly of research and development (R&D) products that are within MSFC's manufacturing capability. The manufacturing capability is defined as R&D hardware products and manufacturing processes for MSFC in-house designs that require close and continual collaboration with design personnel, development of manufacturing processes, or are schedule critical. The Contractor will perform tasks that will consist of manufacturing R&D space flight hardware and experiments, flight ground support hardware and equipment, test fixtures (e.g., dynamic, thermal vacuum, and structural), and prototype/mockup hardware or end items made from various materials. The tasks may also require refurbishment (e.g., re-machining, reprocessing, and/or cleaning) of existing hardware. Electrical Fabrication, Test and Assembly - The Contractor will provide for fabrication, testing, and assembly for the MSFC Electrical, Electronic and Electromechanical (EEE) Parts, Packaging, and Fabrication Branch. All Contractor employees performing under this PWS element must obtain certification and meet the requirements of NASA and applicable industry standards (e.g., NASA-STD-8739.1, NASA-STD-8739.4, J-STD-001 Space, IPC-WHMA-A-620 Space) as approved by NASA. Fabrication typically involves printed circuit board population, both hand soldering and automated assembly, cable and wire harness fabrication and test, mechanical manufacturing, and box level wiring and assembly. Fabrication involves understanding of engineering drawings/instructions, following of strict approved procedures, and maintaining certification and adhering to the established Electrostatic Discharge Control procedure. Typical testing employs methods and techniques on EEE parts, components, systems and subsystems that include thermal and thermal vacuum chamber operation. Precision assembly is required in the open shop and in environmentally controlled clean rooms on both flight experiment and test hardware. The Contractor will also ensure that calibration and maintenance of all instrumentation and Measurement and Test Equipment (MTE) are performed by the Metrology and Calibration Laboratory (MCL). The Contractor will be required to provide labor capable of producing NASA flight hardware, ground support equipment, and test hardware. Environmental Gas Laboratory Support - MSFC has the requirement to verify the cleanliness of a variety of hardware and facilities in order to prevent the contamination of space flight hardware. These facilities and equipment include clean rooms at all cleanliness levels, flow benches, small hardware and equipment, and large hardware and cross-country cryogenic liquid and gas lines. Special Test Equipment (STE) Design Support - The Contractor will provide configuration management services for detailed design drawings and associated engineering documentation which includes the ability to store, maintain, and reproduce both electronic and hard copy drawings and engineering documentation. The STE Branch is the lead design organization for ground test hardware at MSFC and includes piping design and structural design. The required services include, but are not limited to, utilizing and maintaining the designated Government provided computer systems, to include printers (i.e., print and 3D), plotters, scanners and other related devices, and the associated applications to develop, control, organize, and archive PDFs and other electronic documents/files. Optics Support - The Contractor will perform optical coating, optical fabrication, and metrology at MSFC. The Contractor will maintain and operate the vacuum coating facilities and coating deposition equipment, perform inspection, precision cleaning and handling of optics and vacuum hardware, and perform optical testing. The Contractor will also perform optical fabrication, which includes, but is not limited to, resizing glass substrates via Blanchard or curve generator grinding. The Contractor will also perform optical metrology, which includes, but is not limited to, the use of the Coordinate Measuring Machine or ZYGO interferometer. Tool Crib Operations - The Contractor will operate the MSFC Tool Cribs (unassociated with the tool crib supporting shop operations). The Contractor will be responsible for the order preparation, receipt, storage, and restocking of all tools and materials, and the proper distribution of stock items to employees. The Contractor will also keep the tool cribs fully stocked by purchasing all items necessary to do so without depleting existing stock. Tool Crib items include hand tools, calibrated tools, reusable or returnable items, hazardous chemicals, and controlled items and expendable items, for both flight and non-flight use. The Contractor will also request supplies, enter into the existing inventory system any purchase order data on items received, utilize the existing bar coding system, and generate special reports on equipment usage. Metrology and Calibration Laboratory (MCL) Management and Operation - The Contractor will manage, operate, and maintain the MSFC MCL and all assigned equipment which includes computer systems, servers, databases, and applications to successfully perform all metrology (measurement) and calibration services. The required services include, but are not limited to, the operation, service, maintenance, repair, functional checks, special tests, calibration, production control, and pickup/delivery to MSFC internal customers and other Government approved customers. The MTE and systems are Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and specially developed measurement and calibration systems and MTE used to measure physical, dimensional, mechanical, and electrical properties and are calibrated to the manufacturer's specifications or as defined by the customer. Metrology support will also include assisting customers with the organization's measurement processes and equipment which can be unique or "one of a kind." Contamination Control Support - The Contractor will provide processes support including, but not limited to, cleaning, cleanliness inspection, and contamination sampling. The Contractor will also operate laboratory instrumentation such as contamination application systems, cleaning systems, and solvent analysis equipment and will provide written reports at the completion of each task, or set of tasks. Structural Dynamics Test Support - The Contractor will provide support services for all structural dynamic test designated work activities at the MSFC on-site facilities or at off-site facilities to perform a wide range of testing techniques to characterize the dynamic behavior of a variety of test articles. Structural Dynamics Test consists of Vibration Test, Vibro-acoustic Test, Pyrotechnic Shock Test, Fluid Slosh Test, and Modal Test facilities and their associated systems and equipment, to include non-contacting optical measurement equipment that can be used in any area. The required services include, but are not limited to, maintenance, upgrades, modifications, facility and test article instrumentation installation and checkout, facility and test buildup and operation, refurbishment of existing facilities' systems and equipment, and the assembly of new facility capabilities required to accomplish the organization's mission. Valve and Component Servicing - The Contractor will provide support for operating the Center's Valve and Component Shop (V&CS), to include servicing components from fluid systems throughout the Center. This also includes components used for hazardous fluids such as oxygen and hydrogen. Typically, components are removed from systems by others and delivered to the V&CS for servicing. Servicing involves disassembling the component, having the component parts properly cleaned by the Government, replacing the damaged parts and soft goods, reassembling the component, pressure testing for structural integrity and leaks, and packaging for pickup by the customer. Propellants and Pressurants Delivery Systems (PPDS) - The Contractor will provide all engineering services required to maintain and sustain operations of the PPDS in a safe and efficient manner. The Contractor will also maintain control of peripheral subsystems and documentation such as instrumentation, non-pressure carrying elements, and electronics by the Contractor to an extent deemed necessary by the Government to ensure proper function of the propellant and pressurant systems. The Contractor will also operate and maintain Government owned distribution plants providing propellants (e.g., Air, GN2, LN2, LOX, GOX, GH2, GHe, LH2, GCH4, LCH4) by mobile equipment, pipelines, or other means to use points across the Center. Propulsion Test Laboratory (PTL) Support - The Contractor will provide all PTL support services for PTL designated work activities for mechanical, trade, control, instrumentation, data acquisition, and ancillary skills at the MSFC on-site facilities to evaluate aerospace technologies and hardware. When needed, the PTL can support various services and testing at off-site facilities. The PTL encompasses numerous operations required to conduct component, scale model, and system-level propulsion tests for the development, qualification, and acceptance of components to full-up engine systems. The PTL consists of the Solid Propulsion Test, Advanced Engine Test, Cryo-structural Test, Hydrogen Cold Flow, Solar-Thermal Test, Environmental Test, Hot Gas Test, and Hyper-thermal Test facilities, four test stands, five test cells, and their associated systems and equipment. The required services include, but are not limited to: the operation, maintenance, repair of facility, systems, and equipment; facility buildup and modification; fabrication, installation, and operation of pressure systems to include high-pressure and cryogenic; control and instrumentation installation and checkout; data acquisition set-up and checkout; video setup and checkout; configuration control and drawing maintenance and updates; and specialized support on test article fabrication, modification, assembly, disassembly, or as defined by the customer and Government. Data Support - The Contractor will provide Main Propulsion Systems and Thermal Analysis Data support services on the designated work activities for software development and sustaining support on the data acquisition, analysis, processing, and distribution tools. This will also include data room operations, systems maintenance, IT security, vehicle launches, infrared thermography, imaging, and thermal analysis support. Corporate infrastructure requirements include, but are not limited to, the following: Financial Reporting - The Contractor must have a financial management system capable of tracking, managing, and reporting costs down to the 3rd level of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element and must be equivalent to or better than the capabilities of Deltek Costpoint. While the specific financial system is not dictated, it must also support time and expense, human resources, NF 533M reporting, purchasing, and cost and labor reporting to the specified WBS level by employee, by company, and/or by individual purchase. Cash Flow - At a minimum, the Contractor must be able to handle at least $4M monthly outlay. At contract start, the Contractor may also be required to be able to handle up to approximately a $8M outlay. Accounting and Purchasing System - Must be DCAA or NASA auditor approved. Human Resources - As a minimum, the Contractor's corporate infrastructure must be able to handle up to 400 employees. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 541715, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). The size standard for NAICS 541715 is 1,000 employees. The estimated award and start date for this contract is October, 2020. The estimated award amount is approximately $40M-$60M per year, for a one-year base period and four one-year option periods. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on FedBizOpps. It is the potential offeror's responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Interested offerors/vendors having the required specialized capabilities to meet the above requirements should submit a capability statement of fifteen (15) 8.5" x 11" portrait style pages, including any summary or cover page, using Times New Roman 12-point font. Responses must include the following: 1. Name and address of firm 2. Size of business 3. Average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees 4. Ownership (e.g., Large, Small, Small-Disadvantaged, Section 8(a), Women-owned, Veteran-Owned, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Historically Underutilized Business Zone, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities)/Minority Institutions 5. Number of years in business 6. Affiliate information - parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime offeror (if potential subcontractor) or subcontractors (if potential offeror) 7. List of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed) contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement 8. Point of contact - address and phone number This is strictly an action seeking capability statements from all qualified interested parties, therefore technical or procurement related questions will not be accepted. The services to be provided are not considered to be commercial items as 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. Responses shall be submitted no later than 3:00 p.m. Central Time on June 25, 2019, to Yong Castillo, email yong.h.castillo@nasa.gov.