This notice is issued by the NASA/GSFC Rapaid Spacecraft Development Office to posta Request for Information(RFI) - Invitation to Participate in the Rapid III ContractsOn-Ramp, via the internet, and solicit responses from interested parties. The Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition (RAPID III)is a multiple award, IDIQ, Fixed Price type contract, for satellite bus core systems withany necessary modifications to meet specific Mission needs. The scope of the workincludes design and development of the spacecraft, integration of Government providedscientific instruments, spacecraft/observatory integration and test, shipment ofobservatory to launch site, observatory launch support, on-orbit checkout of observatory,and on-orbit operations as required. Periodically, within the contracts effective ordering period, the Contracting Officerwill accept and evaluate proposals with the intention of adding contracts and/ormodifying existing contracts to place additional core spacecraft and options in the RapidIII Cataloge. This will be done via On-Ramps. RSDO is anticipating opening up an On-Ramp for the Rapid III contracts in late April2011. RSDO is releasing this RFI to determine if there are any spacecraft vendors interested inparticipating in On-Ramp 1 of the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III contracts.On-Ramp proposals shall be subject to the same proposal instructions and evaluationprocedures as the Rapid III Request for Proposal (RFP) NNG10207304R dated November 3,2009. Proposal instructions and evaluation procedures may be obtained from the RSDOwebsite, http://rsdo.gsfc.nasa.gov , under the Rapid III menu option. This RFI is for information and planning purposes only and it is not to be construed as acommitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information submittedin response. Prospective offerors interested in participating in the Rapid III contracts On-Rampopportunity are invited to submit a written response to NASA/GSFC, ATTN: Cynthia White,Code 401.1, Building 16W, Greenbelt, MD 20771 or via electronic transmission [email protected]., no later than February 22, 2011.For further information, please contact Cynthia White, at 301-286-8772 [email protected].

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