The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce has issued a request for information on the structure of an upcoming contract to obtain space situational awareness data and services.
The RFI seeks industry input on the attributes of a planned blanket purchase agreement or indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that would allow flexibility or optimal participation by vendors, OSC said Tuesday. The BPA and IDIQ will serve as the prime vehicles for acquiring commercial SSA data and services that will be integrated into the Traffic Coordination System for Space, or TraCSS.
NOAA/OSC RFI Terms
OSC also requires information on other acquisition vehicles that could address the need to engage with the commercial SSA industry for data and services that can be used for TraCSS. The RFI was released to improve the government’s understanding of industry capabilities, enhance its ability to procure services at reasonable cost, and increase the efficiency of proposal preparation, evaluation, negotiation and contract award.
In line with the future requirement, the government is interested to learn more about ground-based and space-based sensor tracking observations on space objects, orbit determination services, ephemerides generation services, conjunction assessment services, risk assessment services, data quality monitoring services, space weather services and SSA-related analytics and services.
Interested parties are encouraged to send their submissions no later than May 6.
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