# Presentation: 027767

## Doug McCuistion
LDCM Project Formulation Manager

- LDCM Project Formulation Manager

**Landsat Data Continuity Mission****Pre-Solicitation Conference****Procurement Overview**

## Developing An Approach

- Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 (P.L. 102-555)
- Commercial,
- International consortium,
- Government-Industry cooperative,
- Government development.
- The RFI and workshops, shaped the approach

## Developing An Approach

- Joint NASA-USGS Request for Information (RFI) in July ‘99:
- No viable commercial market
- No commitment to pursue one in the future, either
- Contractor owned and operated
- Data pre-payments
- Government as “anchor tenant”
- Government assessments also supported inability to initiate a 15/30m market without government financial involvement
- NASA and USGS approach was to maximize customer and vendor community involvement.

## Mutual Needs

- Both Industry and Government want something out of this

## How Do We Get It?

- The Government and industry need to participate as partners
***Both*** are customers
- Involvement and knowledge need to be shared
- Balance of requirements
- Balance of processes
- Market assessments and financial viability
- Gain mutual understanding of each other’s interests & objectives
- Government’s need for due diligence
- Industry’s need for profitability and ROI
- Problems need to be worked to mutually beneficial resolutions
- Both must realize compromise is, and will be, ***required***

- CONTROL COSTS—MANAGE RISK—MAXIMIZE BENEFIT

## The Approach

- NASA and USGS developed an acquisition strategy to:
- Maximize benefit to the government for its investment
- Provide industry the opportunity to develop a system with increased probability of success
- Maximizing flexibility for both industry and the government was crucial
- Risk reduction an important factor

## Acquisition Strategy for Mutual Benefit

- A ***data specification-based***, multi-step procurement
- The procurement _***DOES NOT***_:
- Specify spacecraft, instrument(s), ground system, or operational concepts or designs,
- Require the government to “take title” to the system, or
- Require the government operate the system.
- The procurement _***DOES***_:
- Specify data and its delivery to the government’s archives
- Specify the start date for operational delivery of data and the duration of data delivery
- Require the contractor to produce unenhanced products on an as-ordered basis in accordance with the LDCM Data Policy
- Encourage commercial approaches for servicing the International Cooperator market
- Facilitate sharing of cost, risk, and rewards in a Government-Industry cooperative effort.

## Acquisition Strategy for Mutual Benefit

- Two-step process is a mutually beneficial approach
- Better *industry* understanding of the government’s requirements
- Better *government* understanding of industry’s capabilities
*Mutual* execution of trade studies prior to Implementation
*Mutual* refinement of requirements for Implementation, to develop the best approaches possible
*Mutual* identification of risk factors and mitigation strategies
- It also allows the widest range of viable approaches to be proposed

## dRFP Comments Process

- Draft RFP was released August 2nd
- Allowed nearly 30 days for comment submission—to August 31st
- One-on-one dialogs were conducted with Industry on August 22nd-23rd
- Formal, written comments were received by August 31st
- Clarified the Data Policy and re-released for comment on October 3rd

## Formal dRFP Comments

- Formal comments received from:
- Aerospace industry companies
- Other organizations
- Scientists/Universities and private companies
- State and Federal government organizations
- International Cooperators

## Formal dRFP Comments (con’t)

- Submission breakout
- Industry:  267 total inputs, 167 non-duplicative
- Other submissions:  150 total inputs, 125 non-duplicative
- Industry submissions largely reflective of one-on-one sessions.
- Other submissions reinforced LDCM Public Workshops and One-on-One Workshop discussions
- LDCM Team evaluated and dispositioned all 417 comments and recommendations

## Anticipated Schedule

- Formulation Phase RFP Release		October 2001
- Formulation Phase Proposals Due		December 2001
- Formulation Phase Award(s)		March 2002
- Implementation Phase RFP Release	October 2002
- Preceded by a draft version
- Implementation Phase Proposals Due	December 2002
- Implementation Phase Award		March 2003

## Conference Structure

- The structure of this conference is:
- Overview of the scientific necessity and continuity needs, from the Government’s perspective
- Overview of significant changes made to each major RFP document