Summary

This is a Statement of Work (SOW) for Corrosion-Resistant Steel (CRES) Raw Material Procurement issued by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), effective November 4, 2026. The SOW specifies the procurement, heat treatment, cutting, certification, packaging, and delivery of 30 line items of CRES material in various product forms (bars, wire, sheet, foil, and tubing) to support propulsion hardware fabrication. All material must be of domestic (United States) production, including initial melt, subsequent remelts, mill processing, heat treatment, cutting, and finishing operations.

The contractor must deliver all material within six weeks of contract award to MSFC in Huntsville, Alabama, with partial shipments permitted as material becomes available. Material specifications are defined by AMS, ASTM, MIL, QQ, and EN standards listed in Section 2.0, with heat treatment performed per MIL-H-6875 (AMS-H-6875 or AMS 2759/3 acceptable). The contractor must provide Certified Material Test Reports (EN 10204 3.1 or equivalent) per heat or lot, heat treatment certifications with hardness results, Certificates of Conformance identifying country of melt and manufacture, and traceability statements (for distributors only). The contractor must be either a domestic producing mill or an authorized metals distributor with direct mill sourcing and full heat/lot traceability; brokers and third-party intermediaries without mill traceability are ineligible. Quality assurance requires an active ISO 9001 or AS9100 quality management system, NIST-calibrated measuring equipment, and NASA's right to independently verify chemistry, hardness, and country of origin. Acceptance is conditional upon receipt inspection, documentation review within 20 business days, and verification that material meets specifications, dimensional requirements, domestic production criteria, and certification requirements. The Period of Performance runs December 1, 2026 through January 31, 2027.