ELECTRIFIED POWERTRAIN FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (NASA/AFRC) intends to solicit and award one or more contracts for the “Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration” project and to secure the services required to support NASA is investigating the utilization of flight demonstrations to rapidly mature Electrified Aircraft Propulsion (EAP) technologies and associated EAP-based vision systems for introduction into the US fleet no later than 2035. The objective of this requirement is to assist NASA Aeronautics Level Goals are to: to accelerate the introduction of Megawatt (MW) class EAP systems into future aircraft products by U.S. industry; and to identify certification gaps, and address gaps through ground test and flight tests. The Government requires Government purpose rights to the all deliverables submitted under this requirement. This requirement is limited to Domestic sources. Proposals from foreign sources will not be accepted.

Offerors shall submit their proposals electronically to the Contracting Officer, James G. Williams (email: [email protected]) via the NASA Large File Transfer system no later than: 2:00 pm Pacific Time, 20 Apr 2021. Only electronic submitted proposals will be accepted. Offerors are required to submit a request for access to the Large File Transfer system no later than 1:00 pm Pacific Time, 13 Apr 2021. The request for access shall be submitted to the Contracting Officer via email.

The EPFD Project plans to host an Industry Day on March 3, 2021 from 10 am – 6 pm. It will consist of a 45 minute overview of the Request for Proposal (RFP) and the associated posted documentation. Industry will have the opportunity to register for a 45 minute slot to hold a private question and answer session. A limited number of slots are available. A website will be provided to register for the overview session as well as an industry slot.  Note that only one 45-minute time slot will be allocated per industry team.

Potential Offerors should monitor the beta.Sam.gov website for any amendments to the RFP.

Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. 

NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/Omb.html.

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