The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program to acquire earth observation data and related services from commercial small satellite sources. The $476 million IDIQ contract, which has a five-year ordering period, aims to support NASA's Earth Science research and applications by complementing its own observations with higher resolutions, increased temporal frequency, or novel capabilities from commercial satellite data. No set-aside designation was used for this competitive acquisition. Spire Global Subsidiary, Inc., a subsidiary of IMT Holdings Corp., was awarded two delivery orders under this IDIQ contract. The first was a $6.7 million firm fixed-price order for the provision of earth observation data and related services, while the second was a $500 firm fixed-price order for the delivery of metadata to be archived.
The CSDA Program IDIQ is intended to provide NASA's Science Mission Directorate and Earth Sciences Division with a streamlined and flexible method to acquire commercial satellite data to support their research and application activities. Offerors must adhere to government-defined end user license agreements to enable broad dissemination of the data across the U.S. government and with partners. The contract will be performed primarily in the Vienna, Virginia area and is focused on complementing NASA's existing Earth observation capabilities with novel commercial data sources.
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