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ELVIS 3 Industry Day Questions and Answers

Question Response

1.  Is it a Conflict of Interest (COI) to the contract

for a potential customer to also be either a

prime or a sub-contractor on the ELVIS 3

contract? Especially since the contractor will

have access to proprietary information of othercustomers (industry competitors).

Please refer to the Draft RFP when it is released for

exclusions related to significant potential

Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCIs) and those

which require prospective offerors to develop

mitigation approaches.

2.  Does NASA anticipate that Mission Suitability,

Past Performance, and Cost will be given the

same relative importance as for ELVIS 2? 

The evaluation factors and their relative order of

importance will be specified in Section M of the Draft

Request for Proposal (RFP).

3.  What will be the OCI restrictions for present

contractors and/or contracts? 

Please refer to the Draft RFP when it is released for

exclusions related to significant potential OCIs and

those which require prospective offerors to develop

OCI mitigation approaches.

4.  Is there any union labor involved in this

contract?

Yes, the collective bargaining agreements have been

posted to the ELVIS 3 Bidders Library.

5.  What are the biggest risks in managing the

ELVIS 3 contract?

It is the responsibility of prospective offerors to

propose an approach that reflects a clear

understanding of the ELVIS 3 requirements and how

to manage the inherent risks associated with its

approach.

6. 

Regarding solicitation timeline, when do you

expect to make a decision on NAICS code/small

business vs full open? 

NASA has determined North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS) code 541330,

Engineering Services, with a $38.5M size standard

exception for military and aerospace equipment and

military weapons is applicable for this acquisition. Adecision regarding the extent of competition, whether

a total small business set-aside or procurement on an

unrestricted basis (i.e., full and open competition), will

be made prior to release of the Draft RFP.

7.  Will LSP documents listed in Draft PWS be

available via Bidder’s Library? 

All Launch Services Program (LSP) documents listed in

the Draft Performance Work (PWS) Statement will be

available, either through the Bidders Library or

through the Federal Business Opportunities Web

page.

8. 

Will the Government notify industry of theacquisition strategy prior to the release of the

ELVIS 3 DRFP? This process approach will likely

increase the number of bidders, as industry

would have time for meaningful discussions

with potential primes or subcontractors.

No. Prospective offerors should refer to the Draft RFPwhen it is released.

9.  The Industry Day Presentations frequently

referred to the LSP as a “concierge” for the

spacecraft. How are mission support budgets

Mission budgets are the responsibility of the LSP and

not the ELVIS 3 contractor. Please refer to the Draft

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determined and how is a spacecraft request for

support handled from a cost/budget

standpoint?

RFP when issued for availability for additional insight

regarding contract requirements.

10. Does the ELVIS PMO sit on-site? Please refer to the Draft RFP when issued for

availability of on-site space for the resultant ELVIS 3

contractor at Kennedy Space Center.

11. 

Please provide insight into how much facilitiesconstruction or modification/repair jobs over

the last 5 years to give an indication of amount

of work that could be anticipated?

Refer to the Draft RFP when issued for proposalinstructions regarding Draft PWS Sections 8.0,

Vandenberg Air Force Base Unique Support, and 12.0,

Indefinite-Delivery/ Indefinite-Quantity Design and

Construction for Facility Upgrades/Modifications.

12.  Is crane maintenance/certification in PHSF

within ELVIS 3 scope?

No.

13. What GOTS/COTS software tools are used?

What languages are the GOTS tools

programmed in?

Refer to Draft RFP when issued for more information.

14. Will the prime contractor required to be CMMI

L2 certified? 

A Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level

2 certification is not anticipated at this time; however,

refer to the Draft RFP when issued.

15. Thoughts about the percentage of support for

certified systems vs uncertified vs emerging

systems?

Please refer to the Draft RFP when released for more

information.

16. Would it be possible to come back out prior to

the release of the final RFP to meet with the

civil servants that manage the work to get

some more technical and managerial insight?

The ELVIS 3 Procurement Development Team

(PDT)/Source Evaluation Board (SEB) intends to

continue to communicate with industry throughout

the acquisition process. The PDT will ensure that

adequate information is published or otherwise

available to potential offerors through industry days, a

limited number of one-on-ones, and via the EVLIS 3

website to inform potential offerors on the underlying

requirements and enable offerors to put together

viable proposals. While a formal “blackout period” of

exchanges and communications with industry is not in

effect at this time, to ensure that equal and accurate

information is available to all prospective offerors,

access to civil servants outside the PDT/SEB is

generally restricted to a limited number of

management officials who have some responsibilityrelated to the PDT/SEB process and then only for

general information regarding the Program, the

Center, and the acquisition process. Due to the need

to control dissemination of information from NASA to

ensure accurate, appropriate, and equal information

is available to industry, general access to working level

(non-management) and lower-level management civil

servants will not be accommodated.