Notices

• Amended on December 4, 2013. All instances of Phase F and closeout have been deleted from this AO (Section 2.7, Section 4.1.1, Section 5.4.2, Section 7.4.2 and Appendices C and F). Requirement 1 has been clarified to indicate that proposed investigations can be for instrument science and/or exploration technology in the same proposal. The wording in Section 4.3.1 was clarified to indicate that PI-Managed Investigation Cost and Total Investigation Cost should cover Phase A-E, not Phase A-D. The WBS has been restructured to align better with the NASA Standard WBS in NPR 7120.5E (Appendix B). All instances referring to "Instrument Scientist" and its abbreviation "IS" have been deleted (Section 5.5.3 and Appendix C). Appendix B, Section J.6 has been amended to allow proposers to provide one page addressing approaches to planetary protection to support the Project planetary program protection implementation. Appendix B was updated to indicate that the Commitment by the PI should be the final element of proposal Section A, on one additionally allocated page. Requirement 43a has been added to Section 5.7.1 on small business subcontracting plans. Section 5.8.4 was clarified to indicate that adequate unencumbered cost reserves for Phases A/B/C/D is defined to be a minimum of 20% of the Phase A-D portion of the PI-Managed Investigation Cost. The first sentence of the sixth bullet of Requirement B-33 has been replaced with new wording to clarify the requirement. Section 6.2.5 was added to provide instructions for submission of proposals by non-U.S. Organizations.
• The Pre-Proposal Conference is scheduled to begin at 11:30 eastern time on Monday October 28. The agenda and information on accessing the meeting via Adobe Connect is available at the following link:

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• Amended October 21, 2013: This amendment changes the date for the Pre-Proposal Conference (PPC) to October 28, 2013, the due date for required Notices of Intent (NOIs) to November 4, 2013, the due date for proposals to January 15, 2014, the due date for letters of commitment to January 15, 2014, the deadline for receipt of proposals on CD-ROM to January 21, 2014, the target date for selection announcements to April 2014 and the target date for instrument Phase A contracts to May 2014.
• Notice: Now that the Government shutdown has ended and the NASA websites are back online, the cross-posting of documents has been removed from NSPIRES. Please follow the links above to the Acquisition Site and the Program Library for Pre-Proposal Conference presentations, Question and Answer documents, and the Program Library contents.
• Amended on October 8, 2013. Due to the continuing Government shutdown, the Notice of Intent (NOI) due date has been changed to “TBD”. Because NSPIRES cannot accommodate a "TBD" date, the NOI due date advertised here has been arbitrarily set to be one day before the proposal due date.
• Notice: This AO was corrected on September 27, 2013 to replace duplicated text in Section 2.2. Mars Exploration Program Goal III objectives are now correct. In addition, language in Section 5.4 about the Radioisotope Power System was clarified.