Indefinite Delivery Contract 1305M426D0021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a multiple-award IDIQ to Orbital Micro Systems, Inc. with a ceiling of $8 billion on September 1, 2026. This is one vehicle within the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Program (PROTECH) 2.0, a suite of multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts spanning five domains: Satellite, Oceans, Fisheries, Weather, and Space-B.

Place of performance is Silver Spring, Maryland. The IDIQ procures commercial satellite-based environmental monitoring data 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 must provide technical documentation, calibration support, and 24/7 operational points of contact.

The base ordering period runs September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2031, with one optional five-year extension through August 31, 2036. The solicitation, posted April 28, 2026 with proposals due May 22, 2026, specified NAICS 518210. Task Order 1, issued under this IDIQ, procures GNSS Radio Occultation profiles and Total Electron Content tracks from December 1, 2026 through December 1, 2028 at firm-fixed-unit-price consumption-based rates, with contractors proposing minimum 500 compliant RO profiles daily and pricing across tiered quantity ranges and five data license options. The Government intended multiple IDIQ awards by functional category and up to three Task Order 1 awards to ensure redundancy.