The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC) is hereby soliciting information under this Request for Information (RFI) to gather and assess industry availability and capability to provide small satellite technologies that shall enable a variety of Small Satellite based missions. This document is for information and planning purposes only, and to promote competition. On behalf of the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate's Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI), NASA ARC is currently collecting information regarding the State of the Art for technology, components, and systems relevant to small spacecraft for Earth and interplanetary mission design. Areas of interest include: Structures, Materials and Mechanisms; Complete Spacecraft Platforms; Communications; Propulsion; Power; Command and Data Handling; Thermal Control; Ground Data Systems and Mission Operations; Guidance, Navigation and Control; Integration Launch and Deployment; and Deorbit Systems In order to be considered State of the Art, a technology, component, or system shall be at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5 or greater, preferably commercial. Documentation of this level must be available. TRL definitions can be found at http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/458490main_TRL_Definitions.pdf . ARC is seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including but not limited to, educational, industrial, and not-for-profit organizations, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a), Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB), Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI) for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals. The Government reserves the right to consider a Small, 8(a), WOSB, SDVOSB, or HUBZone business set-aside based on responses hereto. Responses to this RFI should address the following information: (1) Organization/Company Info: a. Name and address of organization, b. Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code and Dun & Bradstreet, or D-U-N-S Number (if available), c. Points of contact name(s) with business phone number(s) and business email address(es), d. Website (if applicable), and name of parent organization (if applicable). e. Business size (based on NAICS code) and/or socioeconomic designation (i.e., Large, Small, SDB, WOSB, VOSB, SDVOSB), f. Average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees; g. List of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement). h. Please also advise if the requirement is considered to be a commercial or commercial-type product. A commercial item is defined in FAR 2.101 and in NASA Specific Numbered Note A. (2) Technical responses shall provide a specific data set for each technology included and shall: a. Describe the fundamental operation of the technology, component, or system, b. Recommend potential application, c. Provide a development history, and d. Document the tests or activities used to achieve TRL 5 or above. e. Data collected by this RFI shall be integrated into a database to be used by NASA for research and analyses purposes. Information received in the data information table (items i-vi) may be published in a State-of-the-Art yearly Technical Report and made available to the public in general. Once approved, information submitted will also be included in a publicly accessible SmallSat Parts On-Orbit Now (SPOON) database hosted by Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL). The SPOON database is a collection of space-based parts for small satellite integration for the public to design future missions. This database will be accessible by interested audiences after creating an account within SPOON. For approval methods and performance measures for the different subsystems, please refer to: https://sst-soa.arc.nasa.gov/spoon-required-fields An example of the proposed database information table is provided below. i. Technology Name: ii. Description: iii. Developer: iv. Performance measures: v. Technology Readiness Level: vi. Missions on which technology has flown or other data backing up TRL assessment: Interested organizations are requested to submit their response directly to the following link: spoonsite.com. This website will be openly available and will refresh on or about July 31st, 2018 with updated requirements to be included in the database. Please provide any questions, or feedback regarding other components and/or subcomponents that should be considered for the database via email to craig.d.burkhard@nasa.gov and reference this RFI. Documents and attachments should be in PDF format. Attachments should not exceed 10MB. Responses shall NOT contain proprietary information. THIS DATABASE WILL BE PUBLISHED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES, therefore, all information received in response to this RFI should be information that may be released by NASA to the general public. By submitting a response to this RFI, the responder is deemed to have consented to release of information as noted above in paragraph 2e. NASA may contact organizations responding to this RFI to better understand or clarify the information provided. This RFI is subject to review or cancellation at any time and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contract. The Government will not pay for the information submitted in response to this request. This announcement does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP). Please do not request for a copy of the solicitation, as no solicitation exists at this time. If a firm requirement is developed and a solicitation is issued, the solicitation will be made available on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website (https://www.fbo.gov) and the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS) (https://procure.arc.nasa.gov). It is the responsibility of offerors and interested parties to monitor the appropriate websites for the release of the solicitation and amendments, if any and will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the documents. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsmen Point of Contact for this acquisition can be found at https://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html.
