Attachment O - Milestone Payment Schedule.pdf

This document is Attachment O to RFP 80GSFC26R0028, establishing the performance-based payment schedule and event closure criteria for Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) 0002 covering Flight Model (FM) 2 and FM3 Production for the Goddard Space Flight Center.

The payment schedule spans 17 milestone events distributed across two flight models, with total contract payment at 100 percent. For FM2, milestones include: FM2&3 CLIN Kick Off and Manufacturing Readiness Review (8 percent); FM2 Subsystems Complete (6 percent); FM2 Assembly Complete (7 percent); FM2 Pre-Environmental Review/PER (9 percent); FM2 Environmental Testing Complete (10 percent); FM2 Calibration Complete (7 percent); FM2 Pre-Shipment Review/PSR (6 percent); FM2 Delivery and Acceptance (6 percent); and FM2 Successful On-Orbit Performance (7 percent). FM3 repeats the same milestones with identical payment percentages. Each milestone requires the Contractor (COR) to provide notice confirming specific completion criteria, including manufacturing readiness verification, subsystem integration and testing, assembly activities, environmental review and testing completion, calibration execution, pre-shipment documentation, delivery and government acceptance, and successful on-orbit performance validation. All deliverables must be completed and delivered per CDRL requirements with all approval category CDRL deliverables approved by the Government prior to payment release.