Indefinite Delivery Contract 1305M426D0010

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded an indefinite-delivery contract to Ethereal Space, Inc. on September 1, 2026, for commercial satellite-based environmental monitoring data, with a contract ceiling of $8 billion (representing the PROTECH 2.0 program ceiling across all five domains) and an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2031.

This is a multiple-award IDIQ under the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Program (PROTECH) 2.0, consisting of five functional domains: Satellite, Oceans, Fisheries, Weather, and Space-B. Place of performance is Silver Spring, Maryland. The solicitation (posted April 28, 2026; due May 22, 2026) sought commercial space-based data delivery across seven functional categories: GNSS Radio Occultation, GNSS Reflectometry, Microwave Sounders, Multispectral Imagery, Infrared Sounders, Thermospheric Neutral Density, and Active Sensors. All data must be delivered near-real-time to the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework in compliance with NIST SP 800-53 High baseline security controls and ISO 19115-1:2014 and ISO 19139-1:2019 metadata standards. Contractors are required to provide technical documentation, calibration support, and 24/7 points of contact for operational task orders.

The IDIQ base ordering period runs September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2031, with one optional five-year ordering period through August 31, 2036. NAICS code 518210 applies. Task Order 1, effective December 1, 2026 through December 1, 2028, procures GNSS Radio Occultation profiles and Total Electron Content tracks with a minimum of 500 compliant profiles per day; pricing is Firm-Fixed-Unit-Price consumption-based, billed monthly. The Government intended multiple IDIQ awards and up to three Task Order 1 awards to ensure redundancy.