App B Questions Responses Batch 2

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Could you please provide additional clarity on the Government's expectations for the Price Volume? As written, the solicitation offers extensive latitude to Offerors to propose a broad range of options and price them accordingly. Is this the Government's preferred approach? For example, would the Government welcome a Phase C only proposal against Directed Topic Call #1, Objective 2.4, which raised TRL from 7 to 8 (i.e., may Offerors propose solutions for one or more non-consecutive phases)?

Government Response
If Offerors possess technology that qualifies for a later phase (e.g., Phase B and C or Phase C) they may apply to a later phase with more mature solutions. To justify this accelerated approach, the proposal must include documented evidence (e.g., verified test reports, environmental test data) demonstrating that the solution meets or exceeds the required TRL for that phase. The Step 2, price proposal shall include the overall firm fixed price by Phase for the proposed project, inclusive of subcontractor costs, basis of estimate, and key assumptions. A pricing template has been added to sam.gov.

Could you provide more information about what "Hosted/Integrated System (Configuration B)" includes so Unlike Configuration A (which provides all its own thermal management, avionics, and communications), a Offerors can understand what this configuration requires and how to accurately price it? Please clarify the Configuration B payload relies on the host payload to provide other critical resources. This could include drawing electrical power from the hosted payload's energy storage during shadowed periods, utilizing the hosted payload's definition and requirements of a "Hosted/Integrated System (Configuration B)." communication relay to transmit data back to Earth, or relying on the hosted payload's thermal rejection system. The offeror should price the development and testing of their specific hardware, along with the estimated effort required to integrate their system with a notional host payload. The offeror should clearly document their Basis of Estimate assumptions regarding exactly what resources (power, data, thermal, electrical) the Government/hostpayload is expected to provide versus what the offeror is providing. Offerors must also clearly define the physical resource constraints (mass, volume, footprint) their system will impose on the host delivery vehicle. Mass envelope (if applicable): In the event that NASA provides the lander, are there defined mass or