Final 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, as well as Mission Operations. This will be a cost-plus-award-fee contract awarded in late August 2023 to support one flight model, with options for an additional flight model and a spare. The period of performance is 15 years of on-orbit operations and storage for each flight model. The draft RFP is expected in December 2022 with questions due 15 days later, and the final RFP is anticipated in January to February 2023.