Indefinite Delivery Contract 80GSFC22DA016

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (RAPID IV) program to the University of Toronto's Utias Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) division. The $6 billion RAPID IV contract provides a rapid and flexible means for the government to acquire spacecraft, components, equipment, and related services to support NASA and other federal agency missions. Under a $500 task order, SFL will provide spacecraft image files, data sheets, and performance characteristics to populate the RAPID IV contract database and catalog. The original RAPID IV solicitation was a multiple-award, competitive procurement with no set-asides, seeking experienced spacecraft developers capable of producing designs with a minimum payload mass of 7 kilograms and 20 watts of power. The work under this task order will be performed in Ottawa, Canada.

This IDC award to SFL, a non-profit foreign-owned manufacturer, is part of NASA's strategy to leverage flexible contracting vehicles like RAPID IV to rapidly acquire low-cost spacecraft for science and technology demonstration missions. The database and catalog information provided under this task order will help facilitate management of the spacecraft acquired through the broader RAPID IV contract, which has a 10-year ordering period and allows for periodic "on-ramps" to bring in additional qualified vendors.