Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (Vadr) Launch Services Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (Vadr) Launch Services

Deadline : 11 Dec 2023

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 91887661

Document Ref. No. : 80KSC021R0034_On-Ramp_Issue01

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Tender Details

Description

10/30/2023 The Government has determined that a Request for Proposal (RFP), VADR Rev A, potential schedule as follows:

RFP release: Early November

Questions Due Date: November 13, 2023 (dependent on release and potential shut-down)

Proposal Due Date: Early December

For your convenience, the Government has created a document titled “VADR Change Log” to provide potential VADR RFP Rev A updates/revisions from the original RFP (link was provided in this posting under the Attachments/Links Tab) and has been placed in the Attachment/Link Tab.

Prospective offerors are cautioned to review the released VADR Rev A, RFP (Early November) carefully and in its entirety to discern all changes, as this RFP takes precedence over the information provided in this document.

Additionally, the Government is providing one more response, see below:

Question:

Our main purpose in communicating directly is to see if considerations could be made to relax the requirements overall or for in the case when a task order is issued and there isn-t any “U.S. capacity” available (for CLIN 2 only), we (and others) could then bid, still ONLY using U.S. launch services as the primary vehicle …, but allowing secondary payloads/OTVs under the 2013 policy point (from page 8) below allowing an exemption when:

“…Consistent with interagency standards and coordination guidelines, such an exemption is not required for United States Government use of foreign launch vehicles to support:

• Launches of secondary technology demonstrator or scientific payloads for which no U.S. launch service is available. A secondary payload is an independent, typically smaller spacecraft relative to the primary spacecraft, but is dependent on the primary spacecraft-s launch vehicle, schedule, and other launch parameters to achieve orbit; or

• Hosted payload arrangements on spacecraft not owned by the United States Government. A hosted payload is a sensor or instrument...
Active Contract Opportunity Notice ID 80KSC021R0034_On-Ramp_Issue01 Related Notice 80KSC021R0034 Department/Ind. Agency NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION Sub-tier NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION Office NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Presolicitation (Updated)
All Dates/Times are: (UTC-05:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA
Updated Published Date: Nov 08, 2023 01:08 pm EST
Original Published Date: Oct 02, 2023 12:57 pm EDT
Updated Response Date: Dec 11, 2023 12:00 pm EST
Original Response Date: Oct 17, 2023 04:00 pm EDT
Inactive Policy: Manual
Updated Inactive Date: Jan 07, 2024
Original Inactive Date: Nov 01, 2023
Initiative: None

Classification
Original Set Aside:

Product Service Code: V126 - TRANSPORTATION/TRAVEL/RELOCATION- TRANSPORTATION: SPACE TRANSPORTATION/LAUNCH
NAICS Code: 481212 - Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation

Place of Performance: USA

Documents

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