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 other
customers (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

NASA has determined North American Industry
expect to make a decision on NAICS code/small Classification System (NAICS) code 541330,
business vs full open?
Engineering Services, with a $38.5M size standard
exception for military and aerospace equipment and
military weapons is applicable for this acquisition. A
decision 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 Bidders 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 the

acquisition 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 RFP

when 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

determined and how is a spacecraft request for RFP when issued for availability for additional insight
support handled from a cost/budget
regarding contract requirements.
standpoint?
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 facilities

construction 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 proposal

instructions 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 A Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level
L2 certified?
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 responsibility
related 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.