DRFP ENX Cover Letter Signed

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Reply to Attn of:

Earth and Planetary Science Procurement Officer/178.2

TO:

All Potential Offerors

SUBJECT:

Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP), Solicitation No. 80GSFC27R0018, for Enterprise Next (ENX)

You are invited to review and comment on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)’s Enterprise Next (ENX) draft solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide enterprise-level development, sustaining engineering, and operations for NASA’s Science Data Archives managed by GSFC. The contractor will coordinate and integrate activities with Data Archive Projects, other science data centers, science investigator teams, user communities, other contractors, and Science Mission Directorate (SMD) organizations. The overarching goal is to continuously improve system performance, scalability, and reliability while reducing operational and maintenance costs by modernizing capabilities and retiring legacy services. NASA will conduct this acquisition as a full and open competition. This competitive acquisition will result in a Hybrid Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) with the ability to issue CPFF or Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) task orders. The contract will have an effective ordering period of 5 years from the contract effective date. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541512 and the small business size standard is $34M dollars.
Potential offerors are encouraged to comment on all aspects of the draft solicitation, including the requirements, schedules, proposal instructions, and evaluation approaches, any perceived safety, occupational health, security (including information technology security), environmental, export control, and/or other programmatic risk issues associated with performance of the work.
Potential offerors should ensure their company is listed in the online database(s) for the following:
(1) System for award management: https://www.sam.gov
(2) U.S. Department of Labor Veterans’ Employment and Training Service, VETS-4212 Reports: https://vets4212.dol.gov/vets4212/
(3) US Government’s unique entity identifier (UEI): https://www.gsa.gov/aboutus/organization/federal-acquisition-service/technology-transformation-

services/integrated-award-environment-iae/iae-systems-information-kit/unique-entityidentifier-update The current planned release date for the Final Request for Proposal (RFP) is currently