Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. As part of its market research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service’s... THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. As part of its market research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service’s (NESDIS) Office of Space Weather Observations (SWO) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to identify Small Business concerns capable of performing the key criteria of the requirement. This requirement is assigned North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541512, Computer Systems Design Services with a size standard of $34 Million. The Government will use the responses to this Sources Sought for information and planning purposes. Background: The requirements for mission-specific ground services to support L1 Series observatory development, testing, and operations are delegated to Space Weather Ground Services (SWGS) for fulfillment. SWGS is responsible for ensuring a consolidated and consistent space weather ground services approach across the loosely-coupled Space Weather Next (SWX) program, consistent with broad National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Ground Enterprise objectives, while satisfying individual mission requirements and milestones. SWGS will use National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) institutional facilities and leverage common SWO Division services, NOAA agency services, and partner agency and commercial services where they are available and meet mission requirements. The SWGS is responsible to provision comprehensive ground services for all SWX projects, ensuring successful implementation and operation of observing assets and ensuring the continuity of space weather measurements made by SWFO-L1 and the GOES-R series satellites. SWGS strives to optimize the use of resources and services, aiming to balance efficiency and cost-effectiveness of service provision with a primary emphasis on maintaining schedules necessary for project success. Timely delivery is essential, ensuring that space weather ground services are deployed, integrated, and tested promptly to support each project’s goals. NESDIS is working towards a ground services enterprise architecture, evolving from single mission operations systems towards consolidated, multi-mission systems with common core capabilities. Taking this approach, the SWFO-L1 mission command and control systems were implemented as an extension of the GOES-R ground segment mission operations architecture. SWGS will continue to use NESDIS capabilities and build upon core services where appropriate and available. Capabilities Sought: The SWGS Mission Operations Services must provide a full mission satellite command and control solution to support the L1 Series with mission launches starting in 2029 and 2032 and launch preparations at least a year prior. The Solution must also provide instrument ground support to NOAA’s instrument contribution to the European Space Agency (ESA) L5 mission. The Solution must be designed to be scalable and extensible to easily add new mission support in other orbit regimes as required by SWO. Do you possess the capabilities to develop, test, and deploy such a satellite command and control system ready for operation within four years of award? The initial baseline SWGS-MOS is the existing SWFO-L1 Command and Control (C2) system baseline deployed at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) and other NOAA sites. The target SWGS-MOS solution must be a multi-mission C2 system at the same sites. Do you possess the capabilities to build complex hardware/ software and on-premise/FedRAMP cloud hybrid mission critical solutions for deployment in this Government managed FISMA high security boundary that support multiple site failover? SWGS-MOS requires incorporation of both the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and NASA project management standard 7120.5 and systems engineering standard 7123.1 for systems development of complex hardware/ software and on-premise/FedRAMP cloud hybrid mission critical Solutions. Do you possess the capabilities to incorporate SAFe and apply NASA project and systems engineering processes to the development lifecycle? SWGS-MOS requires the contractor to use NESDIS common tools including OS/COMET® for telemetry and command, the NASA Attitude Ground System (AGS) for attitude computation and management, and the NASA General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) for orbit determination and related functions. Do you possess the capabilities to use and adapt the tools listed above? SWGS-MOS requires the contractor to perform risk analysis for evaluating the effectiveness of proposed new common services relative to individual mission requirements and assessing the technical, cost, and operational impact to incorporate such services within the launch timeline provided. Do you possess the capabilities to perform this task? A draft Statement of Work is attached for further reference. Submission Instructions: The Government requests that capable small businesses respond to this notice in writing including details of your company’s ability to perform the services outlined above. Additionally, please provide the following information: Company Name and Address Cage Code Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) Business size for NAICS code 541512 SBA socioeconomic certifications (if applicable) Point of Contact for administrative matters (Name and email address) Point of Contact for technical questions and/or clarifications (Name and email address) Web Page URL (if applicable) Teaming Partners (if applicable) Provide any recommendations and/or concerns. Do not submit pricing information in response to this Sources Sought. Responses to this Sources Sought should not exceed 10 pages in length. Responses must be submitted via email to Recarlo.Applewhite@noaa.gov AND Maryann.Orellana@noaa.gov WITH the subject line: SSN-SWGS-MOS-2024, by Noon Eastern Time on July 22, 2024. Please Note: This Sources Sought is only for the purpose of identifying potential small business sources as part of the NOAA/NESDIS/SWO’s market research. No Request For Proposals (RFP) exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the RFP. This Sources Sought is issued for information and planning purposes only and does not itself constitute an RFP. The Government does not intend to award a contract based only on responses to this Sources Sought. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking their responses as proprietary, competition sensitive information, or any other type of marking. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this Sources Sought. NOAA will not pay for information received in response to this Sources Sought or compensate any company in any way for responding to this Sources Sought. The information in this notice is current as of the publication date but is subject to change and is not binding to the Government.