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NASA ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PARTNERING OPPORTUNITIES FOR DELIVERY OF NASA CONTENT TO THE PUBLIC

NASA Headquarters · Opportunity NNH12NG001O

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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE NASA is releasing this announcement to identify potential partners who may benefit from the delivery of the Agency’s web videos, both live and on-demand, and other web content to support increased public access and awareness of NASA activities. Since 2005, NASA has delivered streaming video coverage via the NASA Web Site (http://www.nasa.gov ) in partnership with several companies to meet public demand to see the launches and missions. During those times we have distributed more than 50 million streams of NASA Television with multiple peaks of more than 100,000 simultaneous users, going as high as 560,000 simultaneous users. These partnerships, which have since ended, have enabled NASA to disseminate our content to a much wider audience than we would have been capable of our own. In the existing infrastructure without our delivery partners, NASA may have to cap the number of visitors and hours of web streaming coverage or eliminate it entirely for particular peak activities. This would force visitors to seek content from other venues that may or may not cover NASA missions. To avoid this situation, NASA seeks to broaden its ability to reach new audiences and numbers of people through access to multiple venues. Therefore, NASA is seeking responses from those interested in supplementing NASA's existing bandwidth in live streaming, on-demand streaming and web content delivery. NASA is open to a variety of approaches, whether they encompass all three areas or a more limited approach, such as streaming live video to handheld devices; offering video in high definition; or offering live chats synchronously with video. Provision of this capability to NASA under a Space Act Agreement requires a benefit to the Partner. NASA is interested in learning how a Partner may benefit from the planned activity. NASA will not display company logos on NASA online properties solely for promotional purposes but will consider their use, along with other partner identifiers, as buttons or links from NASA online properties. NASA will not consider responses that include the placement or embedding of commercial advertisements, either for the respondent(s) or third parties, within NASA content. Nor will NASA consider responses that would allow respondent(s) to license the NASA logo or other visual identifiers. Responses to this announcement are due by 5 p.m. EST on August 3, 2012. I. GENERAL INFORMATION NASA anticipates using its authority to enter into Space Act Agreements with any selected respondents in support of this activity (51 U.S.C. § 20113(e). Participation by respondents will be contingent upon selection by NASA and negotiation of a mutually acceptable Agreement. NASA reserves the right to select for Space Act Agreement all, some, or none of the responses. NASA and the NASA Enterprise Web Services contractor will handle the integration of the selected respondent’s(s’) in-kind solution with support from the respondent(s). NASA reserves the right to select for Space Act Agreement all, some, or none of the responses to this announcement. All Agreements will be performed on a no-exchange of funds basis. In addition, respondents are responsible for financing their own activities related to submitting responses to this announcement. Response Date: Electronic submissions must be received by 5 p.m. EST on August 3, 2012 via email to brian.dunbar@nasa.gov Point of Contact: Mr. Brian Dunbar Telephone: (202) 358-0873 Email: brian.dunbar@nasa.gov Evaluation Panel: Government personnel from NASA and NASA contractors may participate in the evaluation of responses. Any support contractor involved in the evaluation process shall be evaluated for conflicts of interest and will be bound by appropriate non-disclosure provisions to protect proprietary and business competitive sensitive information. Award Date: Selection is anticipated by August 17, 2012. Term of Agreement: NASA intends to enter into agreements under this announcement for a period not to exceed five years. Submission Instructions: All responses under this Announcement must be emailed to brian.dunbar@nasa.gov. Paper submissions will not be reviewed. Submissions may be at any time before the response date. You are encouraged to submit as early as practicable during this time period. NASA may suggest collaboration between respondents where it will enhance the effort, in which case the respondent(s) will be given the opportunity to consider participation with other respondents prior to being selected to discuss working together under a Space Act Agreement. NASA will not issue paper copies of this announcement. Material submitted in response to this Announcement will not be returned. II. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION 1. Eligible Applicants All categories of non-NASA U.S. institutions are eligible to submit. NASA is not accepting responses from foreign entities. III. EVALUATION INFORMATION Evaluation Criteria The factors below are of equal importance. 1: Quality and Appropriateness of the Proposed Effort: The overall merit, rationale, and suitability of the proposed cooperation --its relevance to NASA’s mission and benefit to the Partner. Highest priority will be placed on an approach or concept that will create a positive image for NASA, both from presentation and technological perspectives. 2: Level of Commitment to and Past Experience with Web Video Streaming The demonstrated ability of the respondent to meet streaming estimates based on past performance. The commitment of dedicated streaming bandwidth (measured in terms of gigabits per second [gbps] ) for both baseline traffic and peak traffic will be evaluated. NASA and its partners have seen peaks in excess of 440 gigabits per second with over 560,000 concurrent users and a total of more than 1.5 petabytes of streaming content delivered during a two-week period. Consideration will be given to the ease of interoperability with existing NASA infrastructure and the NAS

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