The python language has seen increasingly wide use in astronomy, including astrophysics, cosmology, and planetary, solar, and space sciences. This has both led to and been influenced by the astropy…
Ended Grant For Research Awarded Last action
- Contract number
- 80NSSC22K0347
- Awardee
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Numfocus, Inc. UEI X5A5HG62KA15
- Awarding agency
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Shared Services Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Obligated
- $634,590
Award facts
- Contract value 100% obligated
- $634,590.00 Current and potential, with all options
- Completion date 100% complete
- Current and potential, with all options
- NAICS code
- Not on record
- PSC
- AJ11 General Science And Technology R&D Services; General Science And Technology; Basic Research
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition Basic Research
- Pricing
- Other
- Place of performance
- Austin, TX 78701, USA
Award details come from SAM.gov/FPDS.
Transactions
| Action | Obligated | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Other Administrative Action | $0 | |
| Funding Only Action | $256,905 | |
| Funding Only Action | $195,030 | |
| Original award | $182,655 |
About this award
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC22K0347, was granted to Numfocus, Inc., a non-profit organization that specializes in developing and maintaining open-source scientific software for U.S. federal agencies, primarily NASA. The $634,590.00 grant was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to fund the continued development and support of the Astropy project, a Python-based software ecosystem used extensively across NASA's astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, planetary, solar, and space science research. The contract has no set-aside designation and will run through February 28, 2026. Numfocus has previously received over $1 million in prime federal contracts and $835,000 in grants from NASA to support the Astropy, Matplotlib, and Sunpy open-source libraries, which provide critical data visualization, coordinate transformation, and time handling capabilities for NASA's scientific computing needs.
Description
The python language has seen increasingly wide use in astronomy, including astrophysics, cosmology, and planetary, solar, and space sciences. This has both led to and been influenced by the astropy project. Astropy was founded in 2011 with two major
Quick answers
Who was awarded contract 80NSSC22K0347?
80NSSC22K0347 was awarded to Numfocus, Inc. by Shared Services Center (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) on March 1, 2022.
How much is contract 80NSSC22K0347 worth?
The government has obligated $634,590 on 80NSSC22K0347.
Was contract 80NSSC22K0347 competed?
The extent of competition for 80NSSC22K0347 was full and open competition.
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