This is a $2,568,278.00 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency, to the Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie, a private university or college located in São Paulo, Brazil. The contract is for the operation and maintenance of a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) station and observatory in Fortaleza. The period of performance runs from the award date of April 8, 2025 through the ultimate completion...
This is a follow-on contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie, a private university and non-profit organization based in Brazil, for the operation and maintenance of the Radio Astronomy Facility at the Space Radio Observatory located in Eusebio, Ceara, Brazil. The contract is a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract with a total potential value of $3,250,681.51 and a performance period ending on March...
This is a firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to the Universidad Nacional De San Agustin (UNSA) in Peru. The contract, valued at $767,548.20, is to provide support services for the administration, operations, and maintenance of the Transportable Laser Ranging System (TLRS-3) located at UNSA in Arequipa, Peru. This system is part of the NASA Satellite Laser Ranging Network. The contract requires UNSA to...
This is a $858,237.07 definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to Calian Antenna Solutions LTD., a foreign-owned, for-profit organization doing business as Solutions Intertronic. The contract is for the delivery of a 12-meter VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) antenna from Canada to the Fortaleza Geodetic Observatory in Brazil to support NASA's Global Observing System network. The period of performance is from March...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Armstrong Flight Research Center awarded a $341,047 firm fixed price delivery order contract to FBO Aerocardal Limitada FBO Aerocardal Limitada Division to provide Support Services Import/Export Assistance and Avionics Tool Renting for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy deployment to Santiago, Chile. The prime contractor will assist with importing and exporting goods and rent avionics tools to support the Stratospheric...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to support the installation, operation, and maintenance of next-generation geodetic stations at the McDonald Geodetic Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas. The $5,283,335.00 contract, which has a performance period through May 2, 2027, was awarded on a sole-source basis without a set-aside designation. The contract supports the...
This federal contract, awarded by the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency, to the Universidad Nacional De San Agustin, a non-profit organization, has a ceiling value of $1,211,454.00. The contract is a definitive, firm fixed-price contract that requires the contractor to provide the personnel, materials, and facilities necessary to operate and maintain the Transportable Laser Ranging Station (TLRS) at the Characato Observatory in Arequipa, Peru. The contract has a period of performance...
This federal contract award is for $449,993.31 and was granted to Trustees of Boston University, a private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract is for the continuation of a comprehensive multi-waveband flux and polarization monitoring program, involving monthly Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) imaging of 33 radio and gamma-ray bright active galactic nuclei at 43 and 86 GHz. This research is being conducted for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The...
The U.S. Naval Observatory awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Associated Universities Inc. (AUI), a non-profit research management corporation, for Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) maintenance and technical support services. The contract has a ceiling value of $875,426.69 and a completion date of September 27, 2023. AUI provides systems engineering, hardware, technical services, and research support for radio astronomy facilities used by federal agencies. This contract is to...
This federal contract award is for Task Order 1 under a larger Delivery Order contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency. The award, with a ceiling value of $1,847,579.28, is for "Ground Station as a Service for COSMIC-2 in West Africa" and has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2027. The prime contractor is Atlas Space Operations Inc., a for-profit small business based in Traverse City, Michigan. This contract is not designated...