The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center (NASA) awarded a $52,500 firm fixed price purchase order to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for annual costs associated with the NAS Board on Human Systems Integration. Per the original solicitation, NASA required support for the Board to inform the agency's human systems integration efforts. Specifically, the prime contractor NAS will provide annual costs for the Board, located at NASA's Langley Research Center,...
This is a federal contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a private, non-profit organization. The contract is for the NAS Standing Committee on Aerospace Medicine and the Medicine of Extreme Environments to examine issues of national importance in these fields and provide independent expert analysis and advice to NASA. The contract has a potential value of $1,027,057.00 and was awarded on November 13,...
This is a $60,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Stantec GS Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit subsidiary of the global architecture and engineering firm Stantec. The contract is for the preparation and submission of a manuscript assessing the efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals for long-duration space missions. The contract is not set-aside. The contract requires Stantec to develop an assessment...
This is a $7,051,485.44 firm fixed-price delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center to Deutsches Zentrum FÜR Luft- UND Raumfahrt E.V. (DLR), Germany's national research center for aeronautics, space, transport and energy. The contract provides bed rest studies facilities and staffing in Germany to support NASA's biomedical research into the physiological effects of microgravity and development of countermeasures through...
This is a federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center to Deutsches Zentrum FUR Luft- UND Raumfahrt E.V. (DLR), the German Aerospace Center, for the provision of bed rest studies facilities and staffing. The $6.91 million firm-fixed-price delivery order contract has a period of performance through December 31, 2025 and does not utilize any set-aside designations. This award is part of a larger $49.9 million single-award indefinite...
This is a $220,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Stantec GS Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit subsidiary of the global architecture and engineering firm Stantec. The contract is for the assessment of the efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals for long-duration space missions, with a period of performance through January 31, 2024. This requirement was originally planned as a sole-source award to...
The National Academy of Sciences has been awarded a cost-no-fee delivery order valued at $750,000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters to establish ad hoc committees and panels comprised of members from the National Academy of Sciences, the Committee on Research Futures of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and selected technical experts. The purpose of these committees and panels is to assess current national policies, plans, programs and...
This is a $245,673.85 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Compagnie Maritime D'Expertises, a for-profit organization located in Marseille, France. The contract is for pilot chamber testing services to support NASA's upcoming decompression sickness studies. The key requirements include recruiting and screening test subjects, implementing a 6-hour pre-breathe followed by a 6-hour simulated EVA, and...
This is a federal contract award from the Johnson Space Center, a civilian agency, to Deutsches Zentrum FÜR Luft- UND Raumfahrt E.V. (DLR), a German non-profit research organization, for $5,702,918.87 to conduct bedrest studies. The contract is a delivery order with a firm fixed price and has a period of performance through November 30, 2023. DLR has previously supported NASA with bedrest studies and microgravity research through prime contracts, including a $49.9 million single-award indefinite...
This is a $597,005.29 grant award made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Miami to conduct research on head-down bed rest as a ground-based analog for the visual impairment and intracranial pressure (VIIP) syndrome observed in astronauts following long-duration spaceflight. The study aims to use novel imaging technology to quantify changes in eye globe distortions, optic nerve protrusion, and visual acuity during 30 days of head-down bed rest, and...