Restore-L Composite Tube Arms

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Restore-L Robot Arm Composite Tubes solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to design, develop, fabricate, test, and deliver Composite Tubes Assemblies and associated coupons to be used in a Space Flight mission. This acquisition will be conducted as a full and open competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 336419 and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees. Prospective Offerors shall be advised that this solicitation contains an Export Administration Regulations (EAR) information and is export controlled. In order to review the full solicitation package, all offerors must be certified by the Joint Certification Program (JCP) administered by the Defense Logistic Information Service (DLIS) to be eligible to download documents marked Export Controlled. This certification establishes that a company is or holds a United States Citizenship/residency registration and is eligible to receive unclassified technical data that is under the control of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) or the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND). Please provide your approved Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement (DD2345) form to the NASA Anthony Z. Lyas Jr via email at Anthony.z.lyas@nasa.gov for verification. Once verification is complete, Anthony Lyas will provide these Export Controlled documents to the offeror(s). This competitive procurement will result in a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract. The contract will have a goal delivery date of 5 months after receipt of award. The anticipated contract award date and effective date is July 1, 2019. The contract will be performed offsite at the Contractor's facilities. In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by both the Government and Government Contractors, it is now Goddard Center policy that all procurement-related documents be released in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Should any issues arise with the conversion, please contact the Anthony Z. Lyas Jr. 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. 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. This RFP does not commit NASA GSFC to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA GSFC to procure or contract for these services. This request shall not be construed as authorization to proceed with, or be paid for charges incurred by performing any of the work called for in this solicitation. Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than May 30th, 2019 at 2:00 PM EST. Offerors are reminded that a "Blackout Notice" for this procurement was distributed to all applicable NASA GSFC personnel concurrently with the release of the Final RFP to Industry. Therefore, all communications pertaining to this procurement shall be directed only to the Contracting Officer listed below. All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted in writing only, electronically to Anthony Z. Lyas Jr, Contracting Officer, at anthony.z.lyas@nasa.gov on or before May 22, 2019. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration.