Welcome to the NASA Glenn Research Center Logistics Emergency Exits Restrooms Face to Face Meetings – Room 302 Tours NASA Exchange Store Breaks and Lunch Bus route 2 PACE V Industry Day NASA Glenn Research Center Office of the Chief Information Officer February 25, 2020 Objectives for Today • Familiarize Industry with the Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field and Plum Brook Station • Provide insights into current IT initiatives, challenges, and opportunities at GRC • Discuss relationships and interfaces of PACE to Agency/Enterprise and other local contracts • Share Small Business Set Aside decision • Provide current thinking on Work Areas, Work Area Alignment, and Key Work Orders • Discuss tentative schedule and next steps 4 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview • Procurement Briefing Agenda • Q&A Speaker Time Subject Sean Gallagher 9:00 – 9:10 Welcome and Administrative Remarks GRC Chief Information Officer Tony Facca Overview of the Glenn Research Center and the GRC Office of the Chief 9:10 – 9:30 Chief, Information and Applications Division Information Officer Eunice Adams-Sipp 9:30 – 9:45 Guidance to Small Businesses Small Business Contract Specialist Tony Facca 9:45 – 10:30 Technical Overview Chief, Information and Applications Division 10:30 – 10:45 Question and Answer Period 1 10:45 – 11:00 Break Bob Piccus 11:00 – 11:20 Overview of the Office of CyberSecurity Services Office of CyberSecurity Services (OCSS) Joe Panek 11:20 – 11:35 Overview of GRC Facilities Support Requirements GRC Facilities Steve Vacco 11:35 – 11:50 Cost Volume Overview Cost Analyst Jim Griffin 11:50 – 12:15 Procurement Briefing Contracting Officer 12:15 – 12:30 Question and Answer Period 2 12:30 Industry Briefing Concludes 5 ***** DISCLAIMER ***** In the event of ANY discrepancy between information you hear or see today and the final solicitation, THE FINAL SOLICITATION TAKES PRECEDENCE AND IS THE CONTROLLING DOCUMENT • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview NASA Centers and Installations • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Deep Space Network Facilities: Glenn Research Center . Goldstone, in CA Mojave Desert Lewis Field . near Madrid, Spain Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH Goddard Space Flight Center . near Canberra, Australia Plum Brook Station Greenbelt, MD Sandusky, OH Independent Verification & Validation Facility Fairmont, WV Ames Research Center Mountain View, CA NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Island, VA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA Armstrong Flight Research Center Edwards, CA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Marshall Space Flight Center Pasadena, CA Huntsville, AL Stennis Space Center Johnson Space Center Stennis Space Center, MS White Sands Test Facility Houston, Texas White Sands, NM Kennedy Space Center Michoud Assembly Facility Cape Canaveral, FL New Orleans, LA 7 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Glenn’s Mission and Goals • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Source: overview.grc.nasa.gov 8 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Glenn’s Campuses • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Lewis Field (Cleveland) Plum Brook Station (Sandusky) 307 acres 6,740 acres 1,467 civil servants + 94 Pathways Interns 22 civil servants 1,687 contractors 100 contractors 9 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Glenn’s Core Competencies • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Communications Air-Breathing Technology & Development Propulsion Power, Energy Storage & In-Space Propulsion & Conversion Cryogenic Fluids Management Materials and Structures for Physical Sciences & Extreme Environments Biomedical Technologies in Space 10 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Glenn’s Facilities • Procurement Briefing • Q&A 11 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Glenn’s Economic Impact • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Income Taxes Paid by NASA Glenn Employees Source: Cleveland State University Economic Impact Study, June 2019 https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_facpub/1613 12 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview GRC Office of the CIO • Procurement Briefing • Q&A 13 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Small Business Set Aside • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Eunice Adams-Sipp Small Business Specialist • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Small Business Set Aside • Procurement Briefing • Q&A FAR Regulation • FAR 19.502.2 – Total Small Business Set-Asides • Allows the Contracting Officer to set aside an acquisition if he or she has reason to believe that offers will be obtained by at least two responsible small business concerns. • Total small business set-asides shall not be made unless such a reasonable expectation exists. Although past acquisition history of an item or similar items is always important, it is not the only factor to be considered in determining whether a reasonable expectation exists. 15 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Small Business Set Aside • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Teaming Arrangements and Joint Ventures • This acquisition does not prohibit teaming arrangements or Joint Ventures • Offerors proposing a joint venture, subcontracting, or another form of teaming arrangement should review 13 C.F.R. § 121.103 • All team members must meet the socioeconomic status for the set-aside and the limitations on subcontracting (FAR 52.219-14) apply. i.e. the small business team members must perform at least 50% of the value of the work to be completed. • The SBA is the sole authority for making determinations of small business status for small business programs. Such determinations are binding on the Offeror and on the contracting officer. • a finding by the SBA of affiliation between an Offeror and its proposed team member(s) or subcontractor(s) may result in the Offeror being found to be other than a small business and therefore ineligible for contract award 16 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Small Business Set Aside • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Ostensible Subcontractor Rule • An ostensible subcontractor is a subcontractor that: • Performs primary and vital requirements of a contract, or of an order under a multiple award schedule contract. • A subcontractor upon which the prime contractor is unusually reliant. 17 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Small Business Set Aside • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Ostensible Subcontractor Rule – Things to Consider If the Offeror proposes using subcontractors, the Offeror shall consider the following for compliance with the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Ostensible Subcontractor Rule (reference 13 CFR 121.103): 1. Who will manage the contract? 2. Which party possesses background and expertise necessary for contract performance? 3. Which party pursued the contract? 4. The degree of collaboration in preparation and submission of the proposal. 5. Whether there are discrete tasks to be performed by each subcontractor(s), or whether there is instead a co-mingling of personnel and resources. 18 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Small Business Set Aside • Procurement Briefing • Q&A Ostensible Subcontractor Rule – Things to Consider 6. Which party will perform the more complex and costly contract functions? 7. The relative amount of proposed work (annual dollar value) to be performed by each subcontractor(s). 8. The business size (number of employees and annual revenue) of each subcontractor(s). 9. Is the proposed subcontractor(s) ineligible to submit a proposal because it does not meet the solicitation size standard requirements? 10. Did the prime include subcontractor personnel in the proposed organizational structure, and did the prime propose the managerial staff of the incumbent in their proposals (all or some)? The SBA has the authority to make a final decision on compliance with the Ostensible Subcontractor Rule; therefore, compliance with the rule will not be evaluated by NASA GRC 19 • Welcome and Overview • Guidance to Small Businesses • Technical Overview • Break • OCSS Overview • Facilities Overview • Cost Volume Overview Small Business Set Aside • Procurement Briefing • Q&A NASA Vendor Database (NVDB) • Used by NASA acquisition personnel for market research, communication and educating industry about NASA requirements.