You are invited to review and comment on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Hydrosphere, Biosphere and Geophysics (HBG) Support Services II, a sub-division in the Earth Sciences Division (ESD) at NASA/GSFC, draft solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide science research that conceives, develops, and applies space, field-deployed (i.e. airborne and in situ) and laboratory based technologies and observations to address issues of importance to society. These include but are not limited to water resources, land and ocean ecosystems, global and regional sea level change, changes in the Earth’s cryosphere, gravity field, magnetic field, solid Earth, and the terrestrial reference frame. The Statement of Work, Attachment A, describes the scope of the requirement. This contract is for support of a full range of science and research activities across the breadth of the various Laboratories that make up the HBG sub-division: the Cryospheric Sciences, Ocean Ecology, Hydrological Sciences, Biospheric Sciences, and Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratories. This contract is also for support of science, research and computing activities within the Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory (TISL), also in the ESD. For the purposes of this document and contract the term HBG will be used to encompass all the Laboratories of the HBG sub-division and the TISL.

NASA will conduct this acquisition as a small business set-aside. This competitive acquisition will result in a Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee (CPFF), Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) requirement

with the ability to issue CPFF task orders. The contract will have an effective ordering period of five years from the contract effective date.

Please see the attached cover letter for additional information.