Sponsorship Opportunity for Web Based Video Streaming for NASA TV

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NASA Solicitation: Sponsorship Opportunity for Web Based Video Streaming for NASA TV Including the Space Shuttle Program and ISS Mission Coverage

General Information

Solicitation Number: N-A
Posted Date: Mar 30, 2007
FedBizOpps Posted Date: Mar 30, 2007
Original Response Date: May 10, 2007
Current Response Date: May 10, 2007
Classification Code: 99 -- Miscellaneous
NAICS Code: 516110 - Internet Publishing and Broadcasting

Contracting Office Address

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Description

Since the first Space Shuttle Program's Return to Flight (RTF) mission (STS-114), NASA has used delivered streaming video coverage via the NASA Web Portal in partnership with several companies to meet public demand to see the launches and missions. NASA's primary method for disseminating content is via the NASA Web Portal (www.nasa.gov). During those missions we have seen peak internet users of greater than 438,000 accessing NASA TV coverage via web streaming. These partnerships have enabled NASA to disseminate our content to a much wider audience than we would have been capable of our own. In the existing portal infrastructure without our delivery partners, NASA may have to cap the number of visitors and hours of web streaming coverage. This would force visitors to find content from other venues that may or may not cover the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) and the International Space Station Program (ISS) missions and expeditions.

NASA is releasing this announcement to solicit in-kind proposals for web video streaming infrastructure and bandwidth services from non-NASA entities to support increased public access to NASA missions at no cost to NASA. NASA intends to enter into a Space Act Agreement with the selected sponsor(s) to cover this support. NASA and the NASA Web Portal contractor will handle the integration of the selected sponsor's(s') in-kind solution with support from the sponsor(s).

NASA is seeking an Agreement that will take effect June 1, 2007, and last through the end of the Space Shuttle Program currently ending on September 30, 2010. In addition to the SSP and ISS missions, NASA currently has many missions and events during this time period that would drive visitor levels to the site higher: launches of robotic spacecraft missions, such as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and test launches of the ARES-1 launch vehicle, and many other announcements covered by NASA TV. In addition, at the end of the Agreement term, and if mutually agreeable to the selected sponsor(s), NASA may seek options for extension under this Agreement.

In exchange for this sponsorship, NASA will consider offers to display the logo of the sponsor(s) and give credit to the sponsor(s) on the NASA Web Portal. NASA will consider other suitable, innovative concepts to acknowledge and publicize the Offeror's sponsorship.

This Announcement is open through May 10, 2007.

NASA will not issue paper copies of this announcement. NASA reserves the right to select for Space Act Agreement all, some, or none of the proposals in response to this announcement. NASA provides no funding for reimbursement of proposal development costs. Material submitted in response to this Announcement will not be returned. It is the policy of NASA to safeguard all proposals as confidential and privileged information and NASA will not, without permission of the Offeror, use or disclose their contents for other than evaluation purposes.