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Request for Information: Conference on Lunar, Planetary and Space Sciences Released

Number: NNH25ZDA006L

Release Date: November 5, 2024

Response Date: November 20, 2024

Short URL: https://go.nasa.gov/LPSS24RFI

The Science Mission Directorate’s Planetary Science Division is seeking interest from entities to collaborate with NASA on a nonreimbursable, that is, on a no-exchange-of-funds basis on the planning and logistics, as well as development of program content, for an annual planetary, lunar, and space science conference over the next five years. This partnership is expected to follow established models, where NASA partners on a collaborative basis with a host that holds its own conference. In this arrangement, NASA pays for its own contributions to the partnership, while the partner covers the other conference costs, including providing the venue.

This Request for Information (RFI) seeks input to identify interest of potential partner(s)

(“Partner”) for an opportunity with NASA. NASA seeks responses with creative ideas for a potential opportunity to collaborate on scientific program content for the conference to be held approximately once yearly from 2026 through 2030, inclusive, over the course of the partnership.

Entities that can expand participation among planetary science community members with disabilities and/or from underrepresented groups are encouraged to respond.

Depending on the responses received, NASA may 1) proceed to have discussions with individual respondents, or 2) release an Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP) to compete this opportunity with NASA under a no-exchange-of-funds Space Act Agreement, or both 1 and 2.

Any resultant agreement(s) from a potential future AFPP or this RFI will define the roles and responsibilities of NASA and the selected Partner(s). For more information on Space Act

Agreements and to see samples of such agreements, please visit https://www.nasa.gov/partnerships.html.

Only United States entities, e.g., U.S. industry, universities, non-profit organizations, and other

U.S. Federal, state, local, tribal government agencies may respond to this RFI. Submissions must be made through the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System

(NSPIRES). International team members, i.e., entities or individuals outside the U.S., are only permitted to respond as part of RFI responses from U.S. entities. Responses are subject to the restrictions placed on NASA by Section 526 of the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024” that prohibit bilateral relationships with China. Details of that restriction are at:

https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr4366/BILLS-118hr4366enr.pdf.

Interested parties may contribute to multiple RFI responses. A respondent may submit more than one response to this RFI.

This email is a partial summary of the RFI. For the full text of the RFI and response instructions, visit the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) https://go.nasa.gov/LPSS24RFI https://www.nasa.gov/partnerships.html https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr4366/BILLS-118hr4366enr.pdf at https://nspires.nasaprs.com, choose/click on “Solicitations” at the top of the page, and on the next page input number “NNH25ZDA006L” in the search box or use the direct short URL above. In the event of any future lapses to the NASA operations, RFI respondents should visit

NSPIRES, the official NASA source for this RFI.

All responses to this RFI must be submitted in an electronic format per section “6. Response

Instructions” via NSPIRES. Responses should address the requested information found in section

“5. Requested Information”, including an indication of the primary Topic addressed followed by no more than three secondary Topics as outlined in section “3. Requested Response Topics”.

Please email questions and comments concerning this RFI to the email address below with the subject line: “Planetary science conference RFI Question/Clarification”. Depending on the nature of received questions, NASA may respond on an individual basis by email or may post responses to inquiries in a “Questions & Answers” (Q&A) document available at https://go.nasa.gov/LPSS24RFI. Any posted Q&As will be edited to preserve the anonymity of persons and institutions who submit questions and are intended to address inquiries of broader interest and general clarification.

The following email address for the point of contact (POC) is not to be used for RFI response submissions. Any RFI submissions made via email will not be considered.

Dr. Aaron Burton

Planetary Science Division

Science Mission Directorate

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Washington, D.C. 20546

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