Doug McCuistion

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Landsat Data Continuity MissionPre-Solicitation
ConferenceProcurement Overview

• Doug McCuistion
• LDCM Project Formulation Manager

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Developing An Approach

• Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 (P.L.
  102-555)
• Commercial,
• International consortium,
• Government-Industry cooperative,
• Government development.
• The RFI and workshops, shaped the approach

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Developing An Approach

• Joint NASA-USGS Request for Information (RFI) in
  July 99
• No viable commercial market
• No commitment to pursue one in the future, either
• Contractor owned and operated
• Data pre-payments
• Government as anchor tenant
• Government assessments also supported inability
  to initiate a 15/30m market without government
  financial involvement
• NASA and USGS approach was to maximize customer
  and vendor community involvement.

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Mutual Needs

• Both Industry and Government want something out
  of this

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How Do We Get It?

• The Government and industry need to participate
  as partners
• Both are customers
• Involvement and knowledge need to be shared
• Balance of requirements
• Balance of processes
• Market assessments and financial viability
• Gain mutual understanding of each others
  interests objectives
• Governments need for due diligence
• Industrys need for profitability and ROI
• Problems need to be worked to mutually beneficial
  resolutions
• Both must realize compromise is, and will be,
  required

CONTROL COSTSMANAGE RISKMAXIMIZE BENEFIT
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The Approach

• NASA and USGS developed an acquisition strategy
  to
• Maximize benefit to the government for its
  investment
• Provide industry the opportunity to develop a
  system with increased probability of success
• Maximizing flexibility for both industry and the
  government was crucial
• Risk reduction an important factor

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Acquisition Strategy for Mutual Benefit

• A data specification-based, multi-step
  procurement
• The procurement DOES NOT
• Specify spacecraft, instrument(s), ground system,
  or operational concepts or designs,
• Require the government to take title to the
  system, or
• Require the government operate the system.
• The procurement DOES
• Specify data and its delivery to the governments
  archives
• Specify the start date for operational delivery
  of data and the duration of data delivery
• Require the contractor to produce unenhanced
  products on an as-ordered basis in accordance
  with the LDCM Data Policy
• Encourage commercial approaches for servicing the
  International Cooperator market
• Facilitate sharing of cost, risk, and rewards in
  a Government-Industry cooperative effort.

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Acquisition Strategy for Mutual Benefit

• Two-step process is a mutually beneficial
  approach
• Better industry understanding of the governments
  requirements
• Better government understanding of industrys
  capabilities
• Mutual execution of trade studies prior to
  Implementation
• Mutual refinement of requirements for
  Implementation, to develop the best approaches
  possible
• Mutual identification of risk factors and
  mitigation strategies
• It also allows the widest range of viable
  approaches to be proposed

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dRFP Comments Process

• Draft RFP was released August 2nd
• Allowed nearly 30 days for comment submissionto
  August 31st
• One-on-one dialogs were conducted with Industry
  on August 22nd-23rd
• Formal, written comments were received by August
  31st
• Clarified the Data Policy and re-released for
  comment on October 3rd

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Formal dRFP Comments

• Formal comments received from
• Aerospace industry companies
• Other organizations
• Scientists/Universities and private companies
• State and Federal government organizations
• International Cooperators

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Formal dRFP Comments (cont)

• Submission breakout
• Industry 267 total inputs, 167 non-duplicative
• Other submissions 150 total inputs, 125
  non-duplicative
• Industry submissions largely reflective of
  one-on-one sessions.
• Other submissions reinforced LDCM Public
  Workshops and One-on-One Workshop discussions
• LDCM Team evaluated and dispositioned all 417
  comments and recommendations

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Anticipated Schedule

• Formulation Phase RFP Release October 2001
• Formulation Phase Proposals Due December 2001
• Formulation Phase Award(s) March 2002
• Implementation Phase RFP Release October 2002
• Preceded by a draft version
• Implementation Phase Proposals Due December 2002
• Implementation Phase Award March 2003

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Conference Structure

• The structure of this conference is
• Overview of the scientific necessity and
  continuity needs, from the Governments
  perspective
• Overview of significant changes made to each
  major RFP document