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Welcome to the Johnson Space Center (JSC)
NASA Open Innovation Services (NOIS) Industry Day
September 19, 2014Virtual via Lync/Telecon
10:00am – 12:00pm
Welcome to the NOIS
Industry Day
La Toy JonesContracting Officer
AgendaSpeaker Subject
La Toy JonesContracting Officer
Welcome to Industry Day/Introductions
Debra L. Johnson Director/Office of Procurement
Welcome
Jason CrusanDirector, Advanced Exploration Systems, HEOMD/Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation
Organization Vision and Objectives
Charles WilliamsSmall Business Specialist
Small Business Overview
La Toy JonesContracting Officer
Current Contract Overview
Lynn BuquoProcurement Development Team (PDT) Chair
Technical Overview- Current Open Innovation Services
La Toy JonesContracting Officer
Procurement Schedule and Question/Answer
Disclaimer
• These slides are for information and planning purposes only. No solicitation exists at this time.
• This presentation shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government or as a comprehensive description of any future requirements.
• If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in the FedBizOps website and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS).
• Promote competition on the proposed acquisition.
• Develop industry understanding of the Government’s current vision and objectives.
• Provide industry with the opportunity to meet with the Government early enough in the procurement process to provide input into the NOIS procurement strategy.
• Encourage offerors to submit questions and comments electronically via the NOIS website or send your question to [email protected]. If time permits we will address your question during today’s Industry Day. The Government will respond officially to all questions submitted by posting them to NAIS and the NOIS procurement websites.
Goals of Industry Day
Industry Day Overview
• The purpose of this Industry Day is to help industry understand the Government’s existing requirements and vision for the potential NOIS contract.
• Clarifications concerning the way in which we conduct business today will be answered in the Question and Answer period.
• Please be advised that an acronym list is provided at the end of this presentation.
• A copy of this presentation is posted on the NOIS website at: http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/nois/.
Responses to Questions
• If time permits, verbal questions may be answered during today’s Industry Day. Responses to verbal questions will not be considered official.
• Questions submitted via the “Anonymous Questions to the Contracting Officer” feature on the NOIS website will be answered and posted to the procurement website and will be considered official responses. If a difference exists between verbal and written responses to questions, the written responses shall govern.
Welcome
Debra L. JohnsonDirector
JSC Office of Procurement
Organization Vision and Objectives
Jason CrusanDirector, Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation
(CoECI)
The CoECI Organization
Deputy Director – Jeff Davis, M.D.Director, Human Health and PerformanceNASA Johnson Space Center
Deputy Manager – Steve RaderHuman Health and PerformanceNASA Johnson Space Center
Innovation Strategist – Allison WolffHuman Health and PerformanceNASA Johnson Space Center
Business/Innovation Architect – Karl BeckerAdvanced Exploration Systems, HEOMDStellar Solutions – NASA Headquarters
Technical Integration - Michael ChingAdvanced Exploration Systems, HEOMDStellar Solutions – NASA Headquarters
CoECI-NHHPC Integration – Elizabeth RichardHuman Health and PerformanceWyle - Johnson Space Center
Director - Jason CrusanDirector, Advanced Exploration Systems, HEOMD
NASA Headquarters
Manager - Lynn Buquo Human Health and Performance
NASA Johnson Space Center
Program Integration – Carolyn WoolvertonHuman Health and Performance
NASA Johnson Space Center
NASA@work Lead - Kathryn Keeton, Ph.D.Human Health and Performance
Wyle - Johnson Space Center
Technical Integration – Carol GalicaAdvanced Exploration Systems, HEOMD
Stellar Solutions NASA Headquarters
For more information, go to: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/COECI/
Current CoECI Technical Overview
• CoECI serves to advance the use of open and distributed innovationmethodologies to improve government missions
• The CoECI provides guidance to other agencies on implementing open innovation initiatives from problem definition, to incentive design, to post-submission evaluation of solutions.
• Through the use of its crowdsourcing platforms otheragencies can leverage infrastructure and expertise torapidly pilot the use of incentive prizes
• The CoECI focuses heavily on providing guidanceand support to internal NASA programs, projects, and offices, including use of the NASA Tournament Lab,The NASA Innovation Pavilion, Yet2.com, and NASA@Work platforms
Quick Facts about CoECI:• Challenges: CMS, USPTO, EPA, OPM, USAID,
NSF/NITRD, DOE• NASA Challenges: ADH, DTN, OpenNEX, SMG, ISS FIT,
Mars Balance• Visit www.nasa.gov/offices/COECI/ for more
information
Why CoECI?
CoECI helps NASA generate ideas and solve important problems. By using challenges, we can readily increase our creative capacity and reach by tapping into diverse talent from around the world. As a pioneer and active user of open innovation methods and tools, the NASA CoECI provides organizations with a cost-effective and complementary means of extending their innovation boundaries.
Services- Educate & Share Best Practices- Implementation Guidance- Measure Impact
Challenge Cycle- Develop Plan
(Scope, Cost, Schedule)
- Develop Challenge Plan (Refine Scope, type of challenge, and desired outcome)
- Execute Challenge (Marketing, evaluate solutions, award prize)
- Post Challenge (evaluation, lessons learned)
Current Platforms- NASA@Work- NASA Innovation
Pavilion (InnoCentive)- NASA Tournament Lab
(Harvard/TopCoder)- yet2.com
Challenge Owners- NASA Organizations
(Engineering, Science, Ops from all NASA Centers)
- Other Federal Agencies (EPA, DoE, CMS, etc.)
CoECI Focus
• To infuse the use of challenges and crowdsourcing across NASA’s 10 centers
• To assist/facilitate the adoption of challenges and crowdsourcing into US Federal agencies
US Federal Agencies
• CoECI focuses particularly on challenges crowdsourced through curated member communities (esp. where communities are open to the public).
NASA Centers/Facilities
Small Business Overview
Charles WilliamsSenior Small Business Specialist
Industry Assistance Office Contact Information
• Charles T. Williams
Senior Small Business Specialist
(281) 483-5933
• Rose A. Herrera Small Business Specialist
(281) 244-5811
• Main phone number:
(281) 483-4512
• All emails should be sent to: [email protected]
• Location: Building 1, Suite 453
• Address:
NASA Johnson Space Center,
Industry Assistance Office
Mail Code: BA
2101 NASA Parkway
Houston, TX 77058
Current Contract Overview
La Toy J. JonesContracting Officer
Current Contract Overview
• Contract Number: NNJ12HB18C• Prime Contractor: InnoCentive, Inc.• Contract Type: Fixed Priced/Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (FP/IDIQ) – NTE $2.1M• Period of Performance: December 15, 2011 – December 14, 2014
• NASA requires an External Crowdsourcing support platform which provides the capability to publicly post challenges (external to NASA) and enables interaction with an established global solver network. NASA’s requirement is for a challenge-based methodology and platform to assist with identifying solutions to challenges facing NASA.
Current Contract Overview• Contract Number: NNH10CD71C• Prime Contractor: Harvard College, President & Fellow• Contract Type: Cost – NTE $ 7,766,005• Period of Performance: September 30, 2010 – September 30, 2014
• The CoECI base support provides program management support and includes the development and conduct of outreach presentations and workshops, maintenance of lessons-learned and case studies, and assessment of impact measures for multiple tournaments to inform the theory and practice of innovation tournaments, and advise participants on optimal design characteristics of a sustained use of distributed innovation practices. To enable educated inputs this base support anticipates for the experimentation on emerging open innovation platforms.
• Provides for a NASA Tournament Lab (NTL): an online virtual pilot for NASA researchers to actively engage an existing and growing online community of algorithm experts who are motivated to solve their computation problems. The CoECI support will capture NASA researcher’s needs, construct challenges, conduct tournaments, and use internal and external measures to judge the impact of the solution on NASA’s needs. The effort also provides integration support to integrate solutions for NASA researchers.
• Provides assistance to other Federal Agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Department of Justice (DOJ) in establishing challenges for IT solutions that address critical requirements associated with that Agency’s line of business. These pilot activities will construct challenges and conduct tournaments to identify best-practice approaches to meet Agency missions and contribute to the development of internal and external measures to judge the national impact on operational efficiency.
• Solicitation Number: NNJ15517388L
• NAICS Code and Size Standard‒ The NAICS Code is 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services) ‒ The size standard is $15M
• Period of Performance contemplated is April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2020
• Contract Type: Firm Fixed Price/Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (FFP/IDIQ)
• NOIS anticipated contract will combined both contract requirements from NNJ12HB18C and NNH10CD71C
Proposed Contract
Special Consideration
NOTE TO PROSPECTIVE OFFERORS
Prospective offerors are reminded not to contact incumbent personnel (either directly or through electronic means) during duty hours or at their place of employment, as such contacts are disruptive to the performance of the current contract.
Technical Overview-Current Open Innovation Services
Lynn BuquoPDT Chair
Current CoECI Technical Overview• CoECI provides a challenge-based methodology and platforms to assist with
identifying solutions to problems and technical needs facing NASA and other Federal Agencies. Through our two external crowdsourcing contracts, CoECI provides the ability to publicly post challenges on vendor-provided platforms that enable interaction with an established global solver/member network (i.e., curated community).
• The Harvard NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) contract was established as a mechanism to fully research the use of open innovation models, specifically crowdsourcing, as a valid methodology for meeting NASA requirements. The research aspect of that effort is not captured here, only those services and support specific to the development and conduct of challenges. Harvard is the prime contractor, and, as a result, has overall authority and control over operational aspects of the NTL. Emphasis here will be on the elements of that work that are covered by the subcontract with topcoder.
Current CoECI Technical Overview• CoECI provides a challenge-based methodology and platforms to assist with
identifying solutions to problems and technical needs facing NASA and other Federal Agencies. Through our two external crowdsourcing contracts, CoECI provides the ability to publicly post challenges on vendor-provided platforms that enable interaction with an established global solver/member network (i.e., curated community).
• The Harvard NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) contract was established as a mechanism to fully research the use of open innovation models, specifically crowdsourcing, as a valid methodology for meeting NASA requirements. The research aspect of that effort is not captured here, only those services and support specific to the development and conduct of challenges. Harvard is the prime contractor, and, as a result, has overall authority and control over operational aspects of the NTL. Emphasis here will be on the elements of that work that are covered by the subcontract with topcoder.
Current CoECI Technical Overview• CoECI uses the NTL to create novel, high quality software for NASA-wide
algorithmic and computational needs while at the same time increasing NASA’s computational engineering capacity by reducing the cost and time of development.
• Additionally, CoECI works with Harvard-topcoder to create novel, high quality working algorithms, apps, and enterprise software in partnership between NASA and Other Federal Agencies (e.g., the Medicaid Provider Screening Portal).
Current CoECI Technical Overview• NTL services and support include the following:
• Capturing Customer Needs: With CoECI representation, Harvard-topcoder work with potential challenge owners to identify and prioritize problems suitable for Open Innovation. When required, Harvard and topcoder POC’s interact directly with research and development organizations at the NASA Centers or other Federal Agencies to ensure the specific problem set is suitable for an open innovation challenge. The work here may involve support to CoECI workshops as well as individual presentations and discussions with potential challenge owners.
• Construct Challenges: topcoder takes the high level input provided from the challenge owner and uses that to construct specific challenge statements and develop a detailed project plan inclusive of the proposed number and type of contests, schedules, and overall cost. Prior to finalizing the challenge details, coordination occurs with CoECI, representatives from the challenge owner organization, and the appropriate public affairs organization as required to coordinate and determine the appropriate level of outreach. For each challenge, it is a standard practice for topcoder to develop a minisite. If the challenge is of sufficient public interest, a video will be developed to provide a visual overview of the intent of the challenge.
Current CoECI Technical Overview• NTL services and support include the following (continued):
Conduct Challenges: The challenge is made live on the topcoder platform. Once live, topcoder is responsible for day-to-day management of the submissions and overall operation of the challenge lifecycle as defined in the project plan.
Measurement of Impact: As part of the overall challenge lifecycle, Harvard-topcoder are required: to evaluate challenge solutions via a best practices approach to ensure high code quality and security; to assist integration of solutions into existing and/or new NASA systems; and to select winning solution(s) and work appropriate member awards and payouts.
• Management of Intellectual Property (IP): The software, apps and algorithms developed through NTL are as standard practice released as "Open Source” software as that term is defined by the Open Source Definition promulgated by the Open Source Initiative. Accordingly, Harvard and topcoder release solutions developed under this contract onto the NASA GitHub under the Apache 2.0 Open Source License.
Current CoECI Technical Overview
• CoECI uses the NASA Innovation Pavilion to provide the InnoCentive solver community the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to the unique challenges faced by NASA in achieving its mission to pioneer the future of space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.
Current CoECI Technical Overview• Services and Support Provided for the Innovation Pavilion include:
• Administration/Posting of External Challenges: Based on a high-level description of the challenge goal/need, InnoCentive works with the challenge owner(s) to develop a draft challenge description inclusive of a recommendation for challenge type (ideation, theoretical, or reduction to practice) and award amount. Outreach efforts are determined and discussed and a tentative target launch date is established.
• After challenge description is complete and based on the established launch date, InnoCentive posts the challenge on the NASA Innovation Pavillion (or on InnoCentive.com for other Agency challenges). InnoCentive is responsible for managing and monitoring the challenge and refers questions directly to the identified government challenge owner if required.
• Once a challenge closes, InnoCentive makes the proposed solution descriptions available for download from the InnoCentive site for review and winner selection by the challenge owner and his or her team.
Current CoECI Technical Overview• Services and Support Provided for the Innovation Pavilion include
(cont.):
• Successful Solution Management: For each successful solution received, InnoCentive• Manages the solver verification process and IP coordination
based on the type of challenge. • Provides the Challenge Owner, the complete solver
verification package, which includes the transfer of IP rights, details of licensing agreements, and any additional documentation for the selected solution and solver as required.
• Transfers the appropriate award amount to the winning solver(s).
Current CoECI Technical Overview• Both Harvard-topcoder and InnoCentive provide as standard
operations:• An assigned POC as the Challenge Project Manager who works
directly with CoECI and the Challenge organization representatives to ensure successful launch and conduct of the challenges.
• Training as required either per challenge or as a regularly scheduled part of a workshop.
• Regular reporting that could be as often as weekly dependent on the nature of the challenge. Standard reporting metrics include: number of active participants, geographical location, number of submissions, cost and schedule.
NOIS Anticipated Technical Scope Overview
Potential requirements that may be incorporated in the statement of work include:
• The CoECI mission includes advancing the use of open innovation challenges implemented through crowdsourcing to improve Government missions. As originally proposed, the Center of Excellence is continuing to build upon and advance NASA open innovation challenge efforts and results across all NASA centers, mission directorates, and institutional offices, and to extend that expertise to other Federal agencies.
• This contract is being developed to provide multiple external crowdsourcing platforms and support to NASA and other government agencies as needed.
• The work on this contract will be performed primarily offsite and is implemented through NASA’s CoECI.
• The Offerors shall provide full life-cycle support to NASA for an indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity (IDIQ) of challenge postings in the public domain. The Offerors shall provide support services to administer challenges posted on their challenge platform throughout the life of the contract. Specifically, the Offerors shall:
• Provide and maintain a community of potential solvers.• Develop problem statements and conduct challenge design ensuring
optimal design characteristics for the particular challenge type or challenge campaigns.
• Where required, decompose problem statements into specific contests to either stimulate innovation, or realize a good or service, develop an idea, or produce content (such as media).
• Provide tools that fully support the management and conduct of the challenge effort for the defined community.
• Conduct the challenge, and, where appropriate, provide and support recommended solutions for hosting any necessary data, algorithms, or compute infrastructure.
NOIS Anticipated Technical Scope Overview, cont’d
• Specifically, the Offerors shall:• Provide an appropriate and complete award system for
challenge/contest winners including the vendor-specific process and documentation required where the award results in transfer or management of Intellectual Property (IP) rights, details of licensing agreements, and any additional documentation for the challenge solution. The software, apps and algorithms developed through CoECI where appropriate shall be released as "Open Source” software as that term is defined by the Open Source Definition promulgated by the Open Source Initiative. Accordingly, the Offeror shall work the specific requirements to assert claim to copyright of the challenge software developed under this contract and released into the NASA GitHub under the Apache 2.0 Open Source License.
NOIS Anticipated Technical Scope Overview, cont’d
• Specifically, the Offerors shall (cont’d) :• Conduct media coordination and outreach to advertise challenges
and build participation within their respective member communities. Where required, however, Offerors shall follow NASA public affairs policy guidelines (e.g., use of the NASA insignia)
• Resolve issues/disputes during challenges• Coordinate the submission and evaluation process• Deploy and/or integrate challenge solutions (where applicable )• Measure the impact of challenge solutions (where applicable )• Provide specific training in conduct of contests• Provide the ability to ensure participants meet financial and legal
requirements for participation in U.S. Government Challenges.
NOIS Anticipated Technical Scope Overview, cont’d
• Specifically, the Offeror shall (cont’d) :• Provide a defined set of metrics per challenge as defined in a
DRD or in the challenge-specific task order.• Examples of metrics include:
– Number of Participants– Number of actual competitors– Number of Submissions– Number of Awarded Winners– Number of Contests (planned, executed/successful)– Where multiple contests are conducted, a description of
each type of contest– Deliverable Description– Verification of winners– Breakdown of award amount per contest – Description of any non-monetary awards –including
member points/ratings if applicable
NOIS Anticipated Technical Scope Overview, cont’d
Procurement Schedule and Q&A
La Toy J. JonesContracting Officer
Procurement Schedule
Milestone Schedule Planned Dates
Request for Information 7/29/14
Industry Day 9/19/14
Industry Comments 9/29/14
Pre-Proposal Conference November 2014
Release Request for Proposal November 2014
Proposals Due December 2014
Contract Award March 2015
Contract Start April 2015
• The procurement schedule is posted to the procurement website: http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/nois/.
Question and Answer Period
One-on-One Communication with Industry via teleconference
• September 19, 2014 2:00pm-5:00pm CST
• No more than 3 individuals may represent any party or team of parties
• Only one virtual meeting will be allowed
• Meetings will not exceed _20_ minutes in length
HOW TO GET CONNECTED
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• NASA/JSC Business Opportunities Home PageSet up your user profilehttp://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=73
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• JSC Procurement Websitehttp://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/
• Industry Assistance – Bldg. 1 Rm. 457- JSChttp://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/smbus.html
NOIS Acronym ListADH - Asteroid Data HunterCMS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesDOE - Department of EnergyDTN - Disruption Tolerant NetworkingEPA - Environmental Protection AgencyISS FIT - International Space Station Food Intake TrackerNSF/NITRD - National Science Foundation/Networking and Information Technology Research Development (NITRD) ProgramOPM - Office of Personnel ManagementOpenNEX - Open NASA Earth ExchangeSMG - Solution Mechanism GuideUSAID - U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentUSPTO - United States Patent and Trade Office
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