The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters awarded a multiple-award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for its Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program. The $476 million IDIQ, awarded to MDA Geospatial Services Inc., a subsidiary of Maxar Intelligence Inc., aims to acquire earth observation data and related services from commercial small satellite sources to support NASA's Earth science research and applications.
The contract allows NASA to issue firm fixed price task orders for the delivery of specific data and metadata from the contractor's commercial satellite constellation. An initial $500 task order was awarded to provide metadata for the contractor's data archive. The CSDA program seeks to complement NASA's own Earth observation data with higher resolutions, increased temporal frequency, or novel capabilities from commercial providers. The contracts have a five-year ordering period and do not include any socio-economic set-asides, allowing full and open competition.
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