Purchase Order 80NSSC26P0392
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- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center (NSSC) to Scott Andrew Merritt of Manassas, Virginia. The $97,500.00 contract is for Screening, Qualification, and Reliability Tasks for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Laser. The contract is not set aside and was issued under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) as a sole source award, as NASA determined Merritt...
- NASA awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at one hundred fifty-three thousand dollars to Scott Andrew Merritt, doing business as Scott A Merritt, for subject matter expert consultant services on reliability analysis for the LISA Laser Transmitter System. The contract has no set-aside designation and calls for performance of the services through March 31, 2025 in Manassas, Virginia. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will utilize Dr. Merritt's expertise to support the Laser...
- L3Harris Technologies, Inc.'s Space and Intelligence Systems Division was awarded a $6.9M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by NASA Goddard Space Center on February 13, 2026, for the design, development, fabrication, alignment, testing, verification, delivery, and post-delivery support of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Engineering Test Unit Telescope. The contract extends through August 12, 2026, with work to be performed in Westgate, New York. No set-aside designation was applied to...
- NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $42,550 firm fixed-price purchase order to Laser Mechanisms Inc. on September 11, 2025, for the delivery of a LaserMech PRIMES PowerMonitor PM48 Special Engineering Service Modified for Vacuum. The procurement was conducted as a sole source acquisition under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) authority, with no set-aside designation applied. The specialized power monitoring device has been custom-modified for vacuum environments and is designed to support near-infrared...
- Laserline, Inc. was awarded a $40,000 firm fixed-price purchase order by NASA's Shared Services Center on August 23, 2024, for the design and delivery of thermal vacuum-rated laser optics and delivery fiber for the LASAR ECI (Laser Additive Manufacturing for Space Applications Research Experimental Component Integration) system. The contract, which carries no set-aside designation, is scheduled for completion by September 30, 2025, with performance to occur at NASA's Marshall Space Flight...
- BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Ball Corporation, was awarded a $16.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by NASA's Goddard Space Center on September 6, 2022, to develop the Laser Prestabilization System (LPS) and Frequency Reference System (FRS) for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. The work will be performed in Boulder, Colorado, with an ultimate completion date of January 29, 2027. This contract carries no set-aside designation and...
- NASA's Shared Services Center (NSSC) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract worth $112,115.50 to Toptica Photonics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, to provide an external cavity diode laser 852nm and wavemeter. The contract has an ultimate completion date of March 20, 2024. This requirement was identified through a sole source special notice posted on July 27, 2023, with responses due August 1, 2023. The performance will be located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). This...
- NASA's National Shared Services Center awarded a $26,850 firm fixed-price purchase order to Space Power Electronics Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Bonaire, Georgia, for the development of a prototype laser electronics assembly. The contract, awarded on March 12, 2026 with an ultimate completion date of July 12, 2026, was performed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The prototype is designed for a 1030-nanometer fiber laser lidar transmitter supporting NASA's...
- This is a delivery order contract awarded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a federally funded research and development center operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to Caltech's JPL division. The contract, valued at $5,826,580.00, is for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) program, a joint space-based gravitational wave observatory mission. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order with a period of performance through January 30, 2030. This...
- This is a $32,904,485 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to L3Harris Technologies, Inc. to acquire one telescope structural/thermal model (STM) and two engineering development unit (EDU) telescopes for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. L3Harris Technologies is the prime contractor and will design, fabricate, align, test, and deliver the STM and EDU telescopes. No small business set-aside was used. The contract has a period of...
NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $112.5K firm fixed-price purchase order to Scott Andrew Merritt for Laser Reliability Subject Matter Expert support on April 12, 2026. The contract, which is unclassified and without set-aside designation, supports NASA's contribution to the European Space Agency's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational wave astronomy mission. Under this sole-source procurement, Merritt will establish a comprehensive reliability program for LISA's highly stable ~2W laser system, including developing reliability models, executing Design of Experiment trials, analyzing lifetest data, and conducting vendor evaluations both domestically and internationally. The work is classified under NAICS code 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) and will be performed primarily at the contractor's Manassas, Virginia facility, with travel required for vendor evaluations and technical interchange meetings. The contract runs through April 11, 2027, and was awarded following a Special Notice posted on March 18, 2026, which provided an opportunity for potential competitors to challenge the sole-source determination through March 23, 2026. The majority of performance will occur at the contractor's location, with the contract executed using commercial item procedures under Federal Acquisition Regulation Parts 12 and 13. This procurement reflects NASA's commitment to advancing gravitational wave astronomy capabilities through specialized technical expertise in laser system reliability engineering, a critical component for the success of the LISA mission's scientific objectives.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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LISA Laser | 80NSSC26926445Q | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center | Special Notice 1/1 | 3/18/26, 10:23 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $112.5k | 3/24/26 |