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ID: 1539 Date Recvd: 12/19/96 Status: Closed

Reference:

CMISS SRD 2, Pages 3-6

Applicable Documents

Recommendation:

In lieu of specifying standards and specifications, we recommend that all specs, standards, etc., be deleted from (or imposed as guidelines only), and the following be added to section 2. :

"To provide a cost-effective solution, the contractor may use industry, contractor, commercial, national or international standards and procedures or government specifications as appropriate. Offerors shall provide, as Annexes to their proposals, copies of existing industry/commercial/company/etc. practices or standards tailored for use on the CMIS Program. The Annexes will not count against the proposal page limit. Untailored, public-domain documents proposed for use upon CMIS need not be included in the Annexes, but shall be made available upon request by the Government. In the narrative sections of the Management Proposal the offeror shall identify and describe the standards and procedures that will be applied to each of the following areas:

i) System engineering, including system requirements analysis, and associated cost and performance trades and risk assessments

ii) Software development, management, documentation, quality assurance

iii) System reliability and maintainability

iv) Product assurance, configuration management, quality assurance, parts, materials, and processes management, survivability

v) Logistics support and documentation

vi) System safety

vii) Manufacturing and test planning and verification"

Rationale:

To ensure system continuity and backward compatibility when existing equipment/software is upgraded as part of NPOESS, the Government may still require the use of specific applicable standards to ensure equipment and software usability.

The approach above simplifies program compliance and reduces cost. It avoids the imposition of Military specifications that are on the list for cancellation (e.g., MIL-STD-1547B) and permits the offeror to bid the use of common methods thus increasing quality and reliability.

Response:

NPOESS acquisition is unique in that the government is acting as the system integrator during risk reduction and must ensure standardization across various sensor contractor processes. The program office is in the process of reviewing the compliance documents in coordination with the RFPSO to ensure only those considered absolutely necessary are retained as required documents. (Note that the contractors may recommend tailoring or substitution of any of the required compliance documents see comment #1702.) If the IPO determines any documents which have been discontinued are needes, the IPO will keep the applicable version in the contractor library. The IPO will attempt to minimize use of documents not already included on the balnket waivers.

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ID: 1845 Date Recvd: 12/20/96 Status: Closed

Reference:

CRIS SRD 2.1

Government Documents

Recommendation:

Request that MIL-STD-1547B, Electronics Parts, Materials, and Processes Requirements for Space Vehicles be made a Reference Document instead of an Applicable Document.

Rationale:

Imposing strict adherence to MIL-STD-1547B will have significant impacts to both cost and schedule. While MIL-STD-1547B provides excellence guidance for the selection of parts for space systems, the commercial communications satellite business has demonstrated that in many applications, non-MIL-SPEC parts perform just as well as the MIL-SPEC parts over long lifetimes (>10 Years) and are significantly lower in cost and can be procured in shorter times. The contractor should be held to delivering quality space sensors that meet performance and reliability requirements via on-orbit performance award fees, not by imposing costly specification.

Response:

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ID: 1647 Date Recvd: 12/20/96 Status: Closed

Reference:

VIIRS SRD, CMIS SRD, IRD 2.3: Reference Documents, 3.2.4.3.3.6.1-3-Electrical Connectors

Applicable Documents

Recommendation:

CMIS SRD-Page 4 -2.3: Reference Documents, STANDARDS CMIS SRD- Page-50-3.3.12.7-1-Moving Mechanical Assemblies

IRD-Page 4-2.1 Compliance Documents

IRD Pages 4 & 5-2.2 Reference Documents IRD-Page 16-3.2.2.6.1 Electrical Connectors

Three of the listed specifications have been canceled and should be deleted. DOD-W-83575 is canceled by Notice 2 dated 01 June 1996. MIL-A-83577B is canceled by Notice 1 dated 31 May 1996. MIL-STD 490A is canceled by Notice 1 dated 31 August 1995. (SRDs only)

Rationale:

Canceled specifications are removed from the standard reference databases and can only be accessed via a special database or paper-copy library which increases cost.

Response:

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