Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) For the EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS)

NASA/GSFC has a requirement to support and validate data from in-situ sources, to provide preservation content to ensure the long-term stewardship of all assigned NASA data assets, and to support broad user communities by providing specialized socio-economic discipline data and information services, assisting in locating and manipulating related and ancillary data, developing new software techniques and tools for the NASA socio-economic community and serving as a point of contact for the development and implementation of new related socio-economic products derived from NASA’s remote sensing data. 

SEDAC is required to facilitate the analysis and portrayal specifically of the human dimensions of global change needed for Earth science research and which prove useful to the broader science and socio-economic communities and educational institutions.

SEDAC will provide for both the archive of and access to relevant socioeconomic data sets and function as the information gateway between the physical sciences and the social sciences with the goal of enabling greater public understanding of the impacts of global change and the generation of policy relevant information that can inform potential strategies for mitigation and adaptation.

NASA/GSFC intends to issue a sole source contract to acquire the Socioeconomic Data and Application Center Distributed Active Archive Center (SEDAC DAAC) for NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) from the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University.  The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c) (1),  Only One Responsible Source.

The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.    

Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort electronically via email to Yolanda Williams at yolanda.a.williams@nasa.gov not later than 4:30 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on May 17th, 2022.  Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this acquisition on a competitive basis.  A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.

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