Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: CORNELL TECHNICAL SERVICES LLC
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2017-05-24 to 2018-04-30
Current total value of award: $335091
Description: MARTIAN MOONS EXPLORATION NEUTRON AND GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER INVESTIGATION PROPOSALS EVALUATION  THE PURPOSE OF THIS TASK ORDER IS TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT TO THE NASA SCIENCE OFFICE FOR MISSION ASSESSMENTS (SOMA) (LOCATED AT NASA LARC) ON THE TECHNICAL, MANAGEMENT, AND COST (TMC) FEASIBILITY OF THE INVESTIGATION IMPLEMENTATION EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AS A RESULT OF THE MARTIAN MOONS EXPLORATION (MMX) NEUTRON AND GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER (NGRS) INVESTIGATION SOLICITATION AND PROVIDE SCIENCE EVALUATION SUPPORT AS NEEDED. MMX NGRS PROGRAM ELEMENT APPENDIX (PEA) SPECIFICALLY SOLICITS NEUTRON AND GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER INSTRUMENT INVESTIGATIONS.  FOR EACH PROPOSAL EVALUATED, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE A FORM C THAT SERVES AS THE REPORT OF THE TMC EVALUATION RESULTS, A COST EVALUATION SUMMARY (CES) THAT DOCUMENTS THE COST ASSESSMENT ASSOCIATED WITH EACH FORM C, AND A QUAD CHART THAT PROVIDES A SNAPSHOT OF THE SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INVESTIGATION AS WELL AS THE RESULTS OF THE EVALUATION. THE TMC EVALUATION IS PERFORMED ACCORDING TO CRITERIA FACTORS C-1 TO C-5 DEFINED IN THE SECOND STAND ALONE MISSIONS OF OPPORTUNITY NOTICE (SALMON-3) ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY (AO) AND REQUIREMENTS DEFINED IN THE MMX NGRS SALMON-3 AO PROGRAM ELEMENT APPENDIX (PEA). THE MMX NGRS IS A UNIQUE INSTRUMENT AND THEREFORE IT IS NECESSARY TO PLAN THE APPROACH TO THE COST ANALYSIS BEFORE THE EVALUATION BEGINS. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DEVELOP A COST ANALYSIS APPROACH FOR THE MMX NGRS INSTRUMENTS. DATA IS AVAILABLE ON MATERIAL GENERATED BY THE NASA PLANETARY DIVISION ON COSTING THIS TYPE OF INSTRUMENTS AND THE COST ANALYSIS DATA REQUIREMENT (CADRE) DATASET.  ADDITIONAL DATA MAY BE AVAILABLE FROM OTHER SOURCES. IN ADDITION, THE MMX NGRS PEA REQUIRES THE TMC EVALUATION TEAM TO PROVIDE COMMENTS TO NASA REGARDING THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENT IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE MMX SPACECRAFT INTERFACES AND OPERATIONS. THESE COMMENTS WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TMC FEASIBILITY RISK RATING BUT WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE SELECTION OFFICIAL. THE COMMENTS ON COMPATIBILITY WITH THE MMX SPACECRAFT INTERFACES AND OPERATIONS SHALL BE REFERRED TO AS ACCOMMODATION COMMENTS. THE EVALUATION TEAM SHALL DOCUMENT ACCOMMODATION COMMENTS ON EACH PROPOSAL AT THE END OF FORM C. A SUBSET OF THE EVALUATION TEAM SHALL PERFORM AN ACCOMMODATION STUDY FOR A SUBSET OF THE PROPOSALS AFTER THE TMC EVALUATION IS COMPLETE, CONSIDERING THE ACCOMMODATION COMMENTS AND THE AVAILABLE INFORMATION ON THE FLIGHT SYSTEMS.