This notice provides the Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) and Industry Day announcement for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aims Research Center (ARC)’s ASSESS solicitation. You are invited to review and comment on NASA's ASSESS draft solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide aircraft and spaceflight systems engineering support services with a focus on research and technology development support and related services for the Exploration Technology Directorate (Code T) and the Aeronautics Directorate (Code A) at NASA ARC.

Potential offerors are encouraged to comment on all aspects of the draft solicitation, including the requirements, schedules, proposal instructions, and evaluation approaches, any perceived safety, occupational health, security (including information technology security), environmental, export control, and/or other programmatic risk issues associated with performance of the work. Potential offerors should identify any unnecessary or inefficient requirements and are also encouraged to comment on the DRFP CLIN structure, any unique terms and conditions, the clarity of the Sample Task Order (STO) requirements and their ability to effectively price each STO, and the Section M Evaluation Criteria.

This competitive acquisition will result in a single award Hybrid contract with a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) Core requirement and an IDIQ requirement with the ability to issue Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) task orders. The contract will have an effective ordering period of five years from the contract effective date, and total core with a potential period of performance which consists of a 12-Month Base Period, and 4, 12-Month Option Periods. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541715 and the small business size standard is 1000 employees.

Please see further details in the attached DRFP cover letter. All questions and comments should be provided on the attached question and answer spreadsheet per instructions provided.