Rev.: 05/2026

May 15, 2026 Reply to Attn of: BL-26-040

TO: All Potential Offerors

SUBJECT: Final Request for Proposal (RFP), No. 80JSC026R0015 for the Commercial

Lunar Payload Services (CLPS2) Multiple Award Contract (MAC) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)

You are invited to submit a proposal in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS2) solicitation. The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide all activities necessary to safely integrate, accommodate, transport, and operate NASA Sponsored Payloads using contractor-provided assets, including launch vehicles, lunar lander spacecraft, lunar surface systems, Earth re-entry vehicles and associated resources.

NASA will conduct this acquisition as a full and open competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 481212 and the small business size standard is 1,500 employees.

This competitive acquisition will result in a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the ability to issue Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) task/delivery orders. The contract will include a ten (10)-year base ordering period, followed by a five (5)-year option period, for a total potential ordering period of fifteen (15) years.

NASA JSC has worked to align the CLPS2 acquisition with all applicable regulatory changes issued through the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO). The model deviation text presented in the RFO may change as a result of formal and informal feedback prior to completion of the formal rulemaking process. The Government reserves the right to incorporate additional changes to this solicitation resulting from the RFO and related NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) updates in a subsequent amendment as soon as feasible or upon contract award. Please monitor SAM.gov for solicitation updates.

The anticipated contract award and effective date is October 1, 2026. The contract will be performed offsite at the Contractor’s facilities and/or at locations identified by the Contractor and specified in individual delivery/task orders.

Potential offerors should pay close attention to all solicitation instructions; however, the following requirements list is summarized to assist in proposal development. Please note that

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX 77058-3696 this list is not exhaustive, and the solicitation terms and conditions and provisions in sections L and M take precedence:

1. The Government may make available existing Installation-Accountable Government Property (IAGP) for onsite contract performance. Use of Government property at offsite Contractor facilities may be authorized by the Contracting Officer; in such cases, the property will be considered Government-furnished, and the Contractor shall assume accountability and management responsibilities in accordance with the contract.

2. NASA has determined that this acquisition may give rise to a potential organizational conflict of interest (OCI). Offerors should refer to clause H.12, Disclosure of Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) After Contract Award, for a description of the potential conflict(s) and any restrictions on future contracting.

Offerors shall also comply with the instructions set forth in Section L regarding Organizational Conflicts of Interest. In accordance with FAR Subpart 9.5, the Offeror and its proposal will be reviewed for existing and potential OCI issues in relation to this procurement. Offerors shall provide for NASA approval a comprehensive Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) Avoidance Plan.

3. Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use During Contract Performance. Offerors are required to disclose any intent to propose, or plan to use, Artificial Intelligence (AI) to perform contract requirements.

4. NASA Johnson Space Center incorporated industry feedback received in response to the Draft RFP into the Final RFP, resulting in several substantive revisions and clarifications to the overall acquisition approach, contract structure, and technical requirements. Offerors should review the Final RFP in its entirety, as numerous sections have been updated from the Draft RFP version.

Major changes reflected in the Final RFP include:

• Expansion of the contract scope beyond lunar-only missions to include broader payload delivery services to additional space destinations, including lunar orbit, Lagrange points, asteroids, planets, and other destinations defined by NASA.

• Significant enhancement and formalization of NASA’s insight, oversight, and mission assurance framework, including expanded Government approval authorities, technical insight activities, quality assurance participation, milestone readiness reviews, and anomaly/failure investigation participation to be applied at the task order level.

• Addition of TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmented Information personnel clearance requirements to support potential classified mission activities which will also be applied as applicable at the task order level.

• Revision of contractor readiness and qualification requirements, replacing the draft’s prescriptive prior lunar lander experience requirement with broader task-order-level readiness and capability assessments.

• Expansion of mission operations requirements, including integrated mission operations support, telemetry and voice-loop access, operational training, mission simulations, and remote operations accommodations.

• Increased emphasis on safety, mission assurance, independent verification, validation, planetary protection, orbital debris mitigation, and technical peer review requirements.

• Broadened CLIN 2 scope from “Lunar Lander Delivery” to “Lander Delivery,” supporting more flexible mission applications.

• Addition of enhanced Government access, data rights, and third-party supplier visibility requirements to support NASA insight activities.

• Expanded payload integration, non-interference, and multi-payload coordination requirements for increasingly complex mission architectures.

• Removed mission failure consequences that required re‑flight, replacing them with a more flexible, performance‑based approach to addressing anomalies and mission outcomes.

• Refined the annual on‑ramp approach by advancing the initial on‑ramp year and removing the fixed calendar‑month.

• Updates to inspection, acceptance, and Government property marking clauses, including customized service inspection provisions and additional equipment identification requirements, which will be applied at the task order level as needed.

This list is not intended to cover all changes nor describe all RFP requirements. Offerors should carefully review the RFP in its entirety.

5. Below is a list of the Source Selection Authority (SSA) and voting members along with their associated NASA Johnson Space Center, for the Source Evaluation Board (SEB). The names provided are for informational purposes only and other than the Contracting Officer, Joshua Smith, these individuals shall not be contacted regarding this acquisition. The Government may change personnel associated with this acquisition at its discretion.

SSA

Carlos Garcia-Galan, Deputy Manager

Voting Members

Dr. Paul B. Niles, Project Scientist, (JSC-XI), SEB Chairperson Dr. Susan M. Lederer, Project Scientist, (JSC-XI) Dr. Troy O. Mann, CLPS Lunar Integration Manager, (LaRC) Adam M. Schlesinger, Project Manager, (JSC-XA) Michael R. Effinger, Technical Integration, (MSFC-EV) Joshua D. Smith, Contracting Officer, (JSC-BL)

6. Offerors are required to have a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code that matches the corporate address submitted with its proposal.

Offerors are encouraged to refer to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision 52.212- 1, Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services, in particular paragraph (d), which states that the Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors.

In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by the Government and its Contractors, NASA policy required all acquisition-related documents be submitted in accordance with the solicitation’s electronic submission requirements. While proposal volumes and supporting documentation may be provided in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) where appropriate, the Offeror shall ensure compliance with all file format requirements specified in the solicitation.

For proposal submissions, the Offeror shall provide all required Microsoft Office documents in their native formats. The Offeror shall ensure that Microsoft Excel submissions are fully functional and editable, and shall not include hidden formulas, locked cells, password protections, or external links to data not contained within the submission. All electronic proposal files shall be searchable, compliant with the solicitation’s formatting instructions, and suitable for evaluation without the need for conversion from PDF to Excel or PDF to MSWord.

Documents related to this acquisition, including this letter, the solicitation, attachments, exhibits, any amendments and links to online reference/technical/bidders library will be attainable electronically from the World Wide Web through the Government-wide point of entry website at www.SAM.gov. Potential offerors are requested to periodically monitor the websites for updates.

NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at:

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/Procurement-Ombuds-Comp-Advocate- Listing.pdf

This RFP does not commit NASA Johnson Space Center to pay any proposal preparation costs, nor does it obligate NASA Johnson Space Center to procure or contract for these https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/Procurement-Ombuds-Comp-Advocate-Listing.pdf https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/Procurement-Ombuds-Comp-Advocate-Listing.pdf services. This request is not an authorization to proceed and does not authorize payment for any charges incurred by the offeror for performing any of the work called for in this solicitation.

Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation shall be due no later than June 30, 2026, at 1:00 PM CST. Proposals for this solicitation are required to be submitted through NASA’s Enterprise File Sharing and Sync Box (EFSS Box), a FedRAMP Moderate certified platform. Potential offerors, especially those that have not previously submitted a proposal utilizing NASA’s EFSS Box, are encouraged to review the solicitation instruction entitled “Electronic Proposal Delivery - Proposal Marking and Delivery Through NASA’s EFSS Box” which provides instructions related to the submission of proposal via EFSS Box.

Offerors are encouraged to check with their corporate IT staff to determine if there are firewall restrictions that would need to be addressed prior to the submission of proposal files through NASA’s EFSS Box.

In accordance with NFS CG 1815.11(i), a “Blackout Notice” has been issued to NASA personnel. All inquiries/communications pertaining to this acquisition must be directed only at the Contracting Officer listed below.

All questions regarding this RFP should be submitted in writing, electronically to Joshua Smith, Contracting Officer, at JSC-CLPS2@nasa.gov on or before June 5, 2026. Offerors are encouraged to submit questions as soon as possible for consideration. All comments received by May 22, 2026, will be addressed at the Pre-Proposal Conference. The final Q&A due date is June 5, 2026.

Following the release of the final RFP, the CLPS2 Pre-Proposal Conference is anticipated to be held on June 1, 2026. A formal notice will be posted on SAM.gov at:

https://www.sam.gov Reference Final RFP section L.9 for instruction on how to attend the Pre-Proposal Conference.

Additional information will also be available on the CLPS2 acquisition website:

https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/jsc-procurement/clps-2-0/

Thank you for your support. We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Joshua Smith Contracting Officer mailto:JSC-CLPS2@nasa.gov https://www.sam.gov/ https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/jsc-procurement/clps-2-0/