Purchase Order 80NSSC22P0303

This is a $119,350 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Telesat U.S. Services LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for the "AOS Access to Space Study". The contract has a completion date of August 31, 2022 and was awarded on January 1, 2022. The work will be performed in Rosslyn, VA.

The contract is not set-aside. It appears to be a follow-on to a larger $182 million Other Transaction Agreement that Telesat U.S. Services LLC has with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate technical elements for a global high-speed satellite network backbone in low Earth orbit. Telesat U.S. Services LLC also holds a $3.6 million IDIQ contract with DARPA to provide commercial satellite bandwidth and associated gateway services.