J_Pricing Model_Amendment 01.xlsx

This is a Pricing Model Template for the NEXUS Ka-Band Backward-Compatible Relay solicitation, designed to collect Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Contract Line Item (CLIN) pricing, milestone payment allocations, and supporting cost information from offerors. The template is structured across six worksheets: (1) CLIN Summary, which consolidates pricing for three phases—CLIN 001 (Concept Maturation and Risk Reduction, 6 months), CLIN 002 (System Integration and Demonstration Readiness, up to 24 months), and CLIN 003 (On-Orbit Demonstration and Validation, up to 6 months); (2) Milestone Payment Schedule, establishing payment milestones tied to acceptance events such as Verification and Validation Compliance Review, Demonstration Readiness Review, and Demonstration Performance Validation Review, with all milestone payments required to sum to 100% of the applicable CLIN Net Proposed Price; (3) Cost Information by CLIN, itemizing detailed cost breakdowns across labor, subcontracts, materials, software, ground systems, launch services, testing, cybersecurity, program management, and profit/fee for each CLIN; (4) Labor Summary, capturing labor categories and hours by CLIN including program management, systems engineering, RF/communications engineering, integration and test personnel, and mission operations staff; (5) Major Assumptions and Price Drivers, requiring offerors to identify impacts from architecture decisions, launch deployment, ground infrastructure, commercial services, cybersecurity authorizations, spectrum licensing, and supply chain considerations; and (6) Corporate Contributions, documenting any corporate investments or contributions that directly affect CLIN pricing.

Offerors must complete all yellow-shaded input cells while preserving green formula cells and the existing worksheet structure without modification. All pricing is FFP and all-inclusive unless expressly identified as Government-furnished. The submission must be in native Excel format with formulas intact, and corporate contributions must be clearly identified and quantified separately from the Net Proposed Price to ensure full transparency and traceability. Supporting cost information is requested as non-certified data to support Government evaluation of price reasonableness, balance, affordability, and consistency across the three development and demonstration phases.