SATPC0037985 Tab 04 4 SOW revised.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK

1. Objective/Requirements

This procurement DOES NOT include any requirements related to consulting.

Access to both user interface (UI), secure file transfer protocols (FTPs), and/or application programming interfaces (APIs) containing extremely thorough repositories of data related to domestic and international businesses is required to perform congressionally mandated due diligence functions.

Specifically, this data is required to protect national security as described during the February 26, 2025 House Committee on Small Business hearing titled “Fostering American Innovation: Insights into SBIR/STTR Program”. The objective of this procurement is to gain access to vital data via UIs, secure FTPs, and/or APIs to support NASA due diligence functions. This includes the extracting, retrieval, and loading of specific data related to firms submitting proposals to the Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer program during solicitation periods.

This data will be used to corroborate or disprove disclosed information, identify undisclosed information, and illuminate connections between submitting firms and countries of concern as defined by the Department of State in order to assess risk.

2. Characteristics, Scope, and Specs

NASA requires detailed, accurate, and up-to-date data regarding connections between foreign countries and any links to businesses, companies, and entities that are related to submitting firms seeking publicly funded awards. NASA requires access to this data via UIs, FTPs and/or APIs. The scope of this data is all company, business, and entity connections between proposing small business concerns (SBCs) foreign companies, businesses, and entities. The specifications of these data include all unique identifiers, descriptions of relationships, associated connections between any two nodes between entities that support answering the following questions:

1. Is any owner or covered individual of the applicant or awardee party to any malign foreign talent recruitment program?

2. Is there a parent company, joint venture, or subsidiary, of the applicant or awardee that is based in or receives funding from, any foreign country of concern?

3. Does the applicant or awardee have any current or pending contractual or financial obligation or other agreement specific to a business arrangement, or joint venture-like arrangement with an enterprise owned by a foreign state or any foreign entity?

4. Is the applicant or awardee wholly owned in a foreign country?

5. Does the applicant or awardee have any venture capital or institutional investment?

5a. Does the investing entity have a general partner or any other individual holding a leadership role who has a foreign affiliation with any foreign country of concern?

6. During the previous 5-year period, did the applicant or awardee have any technology licensing or intellectual property sales or transfers, to a foreign country of concern?

7. Is there any foreign business entity, offshore entity, or entity outside the United States related to the applicant or awardee?

8. Does the applicant or awardee have an owner, officer, or covered individual that has a foreign affiliation with a research institution located in a foreign country of concern?

3. Place of Performance

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

4. Period of Performance One year from start of successful award (est: March 30, 2025 – March 29, 2026)