Attachment W - OCI Plan.pdf

This document provides details for a federal contract opportunity to develop the Geostationary Extended Observations Sounder instrument. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center plans to issue a Request for Proposal for the implementation phase of the GeoXO Sounder instrument, which will provide sounding observations of the western hemisphere for weather prediction models. The contract scope includes tasks to design, develop, fabricate, integrate, calibrate, test, verify, evaluate, and support the instrument and Ground Support Equipment through launch and 10 years of on-orbit operations with 5 years of on-orbit storage. Responses to the draft RFP will be due in December 2022, with the final RFP anticipated in January to February 2023 and contract award by late August 2023. The North American Industry Classification System code is 541330 and size standard is $22.5 million.