This Partnership Opportunity Document (POD)is in association with an upcoming NASAAnnouncement of Opportunity for an Earth Venture-2 (EV-2) mission due to be released latespring/summer of 2011. NASA GSFC is seeking an engineering partner for the development ofan overall spaceflight laser transmitter subsystem. The potential GSFC EV-2 mission isdesigned to meet the science goals of the EV-2 program, as currently understood.(Reference draft AO: http://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EV-2/ )GSFC mission teams will be submitting proposals to the EV-2 AO currently scheduled forrelease in late spring 2011. The AO is a one-step process, with the proposal responsebeing primarily focused on the merit and feasibility of the science objectives of theproposed mission. The submissions will be selected, and the resultant proposal will befunded for formulation and implementation Phases A-F. While the AO schedule cannot bespecified at this time, the following is estimated based on earlier AOs and relatedmissions:AO release ~June 2011Proposals due ~September 2011Mission selection Early 2012 (target)Launch 2015 (target)Operations Launch plus 3 years, possible 2 year extensionThis partnership opportunity is being issued to select a partner to help prepare the GSFCEV-2 candidate mission concept for proposal submittal and to provide an end-to-endmission system solution should the mission be selected for flight. There will be no exchange of funds between the teaming partners for the portion of thispartnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of the submission to the EV-2 AO.Potential respondents are asked to contact the GSFC EV-2 team by 12 PM EDT on or beforeJune 20, 2011 with a Notice Of Interest (intentionally not called a notice of intent). This Notice of Interest does not create an obligation to respond to the POD, but allowsthe GSFC EV-2 team to disseminate additional details on the mission parameters and toprovide answers to questions from potential partners. Respondents may send questions tothe GSFC EV-2 Team at the E-mail address listed below. All questions and answers will bemade available to all those who respond to the Notice of Interest. The source of thequestions shall be held confidential. Questions and answers that contain informationunique to a respondents proprietary approach will not be shared if they are identifiedas such. There are no plans to provide additional details on the proposed mission beyondthose already included in Section 3.0 of this POD. The Notice of Interest is only toensure that any questions and answers are provided to all interested parties.Notice of Interest shall be sent to [email protected] via email with Notice ofInterest in the subject line, a simple sentence or two expressing interest and an emailand address to send further information. For purposes of this partnership opportunity,the GSFC EV-2 Team contact is Julia Breed, [email protected], 301-286-8665.Finalpresentation packages must be received by 5 PM EDT on July 11, 2011. Thissolicitation/synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor willthe Government pay for the information solicited. An ombudsman has been appointed. SeeInternet Note B. The documents for this partnership opportunity will be in MicrosoftOffice Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) format and will reside on a WorldWide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWWaddress, or URL, of the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities home page ishttp://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/EPS/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=51 . It is the offerors responsibility to monitor this cite for the release of the PartnershipOpportunity Document and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible fordownloading their own copy of the Partnership Opportunity Document and amendments, ifany. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL:http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html .

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