SSA Services BPA RFI.pdf

Notice Type:

Request of Information

Synopsis:

This Request for Information is for Planning Purposes Only.

The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Request for Information or to otherwise pay for the information solicited. Your response to this Request for Information will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal.

This request is issued for the purpose of exchanging information to improve the understanding of industry capabilities, thereby allowing potential offerors to judge whether or how they can satisfy the Government's requirements, and enhance the Government's ability to obtain services, at reasonable cost and price, and increase efficiency in proposal preparation, proposal evaluation, negotiation, and contract award.

The Office of Space Commerce (OSC) Space Operations Division (SOD), is conducting market research in an effort to identify all potential industry sources with the capabilities to provide support for a potential Blanket Purchase

Agreement (BPA) or indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) for Spaces Situational Awareness (SSA) efforts described herein.

REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Space Commerce (OSC) requires commercial space situational awareness (SSA) data and services for integration into the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). The TraCSS has been developed to fulfill the 2018 US National Space Council released Space

Policy Directive-3 (SPD-3), which instructed OSC to develop a civil space traffic coordination system to support space safety and sustainability for space operators.

TraCSS is the Department of Commerce's enterprise solution for ingesting, archiving, processing, and disseminating

Space Situational Awareness (SSA) data and products, including conjunction analysis and warning services, to commercial and civil satellite owner/operators. The system stores data from the Department of Defense (DOD), NOAA, commercial SSA data providers, and satellite Owner/Operators (O/O). TraCSS operates 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. An overview of the TraCSS is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Overview of TraCSS

The TraCSS architecture was designed to establish a central data repository to integrate the multiple data sources required for the mission, create an infrastructure capable of integrating commercial capabilities and other SSA tools to interact with the data repository, provide an environment to easily test and onboard new capabilities and applications and build a robust research, modeling and simulation environment for the community to advance the state of the art in space situational awareness and space traffic coordination.

Figure 1 illustrates the TraCSS components as currently deployed and/or being developed. There are three partitions in the GovCloud environment.

1) The TraCSS production environment is the operational environment and consists of an instance of the

OASIS data repository and the SKYLINE application hosting service which is processing the DoD High

Accuracy Catalog and Owner/Operator (O/O) Ephemerides to produce Conjunction Data Messages for a set of TraCSS beta users. A full migration of all O/O from the DoD to TraCSS is expected by the end of FY25.

2) The HORIZON DevTest environment is deployed as an instance of OASIS and SKYLINE to provide a continuous improvement/continuous delivery pipeline to support the TraCSS agile development and evolution approach.

3) The HORIZON Modeling and Simulation, Test and Evaluation and Research environment (MASTER) environment will utilize an instance of OASIS to support research and technology development.

The TraCSS User Interface provides a presentation layer consisting of the TraCSS.gov website and displays as well as APIs for users to interface with the system for products and services. TraCSS operates at an unclassified level and does not require storage of any classified data. DoD data, with CUI handling requirements, is ingested into the

OASIS data repository and available for access by SKYLINE hosted applications. The TraCSS system is hosted on a

GovCloud which is procured through a separate procurement activity. The TraCSS production and HORIZON

DevTest environments are maintained at a FISMA HIGH level.

Background information on the TraCSS program, approach and ancillary information is available on the TraCSS page on the OSC website at the following link:

https://www.space.commerce.gov/traffic-coordination-system-for-space-tracss/videos-listening-sessions-documents/.

The link provides access to videos describing TraCSS as well as numerous listening sessions the program has conducted with industry and other stakeholders to elicit input on the development, and continuing evolution, of the system.

The TraCSS program is interested in establishing a multi-vendor Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) or indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) to obtain commercial SSA data and services in support of the TraCSS mission. The

BPA/IDIQ, along with orders placed on the Government Services Administration (GSA) Global Data Marketplace

(GDM), will be the prime vehicle for acquiring commercial SSA data and services for integration into TraCSS. The program is seeking industry input on the attributes of a BPA or IDIQ that would allow flexibility and maximal participation by vendors. The program is also seeking input from industry on other acquisition vehicles that might address the need to engage broadly with the commercial SSA industry for data and services for TraCSS. In the context of the BPA or IDIQ, SSA data and services includes, but is not limited to, the following:

● Ground based sensor tracking observations (multiple phenomenologies and orbital regimes) on space objects

● Space based sensor tracking observations (multiple phenomenologies and orbital regimes) on space objects

● Orbit determination services

● Ephemerides generation services

● Conjunction assessment services https://www.space.commerce.gov/traffic-coordination-system-for-space-tracss/videos-listening-sessions-documents/

● Risk assessment services

● Data quality monitoring services

● Space weather services

● SSA related analytics and services

RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS

1) Responses can be directly submitted via questionnaire at the following link:

https://forms.gle/dJnNEYa61Nb8c9X6A

2) Responses can also be sent via email to: David.marks@noaa.gov and the electronic copy of your response must be in ".pdf format" and readable by the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If sending in responses via email, Contractor response should include the following, at a minimum, in their response:

● Capability statement (core competencies and other relevant information).

● Preference for a BPA or/and IDIQ, and why.

● Relevant past performance. Relevant past performance is performance under contracts or efforts (within recent years) that is of the same or similar scope, magnitude, and complexity to that which is described in this Request for Information. Include a list of current or previous contracts performed within the recent past that are of a similar nature to this request and include: contract number, name and address of the

Government agency or commercial entity, description of work and services provided, point of contact with current phone number and email address, date of contract award, period of performance, initial and current contract value, and the extent of subcontracting.

● Include the following o Are you a Small Business Y/N o Socio-Economic Status (if Applicable) o NAICS(s) your organization has for this works

Responses to this RFI are due no later than 12:00pm, May 6, 2025.

Questions pertaining to this notice may be emailed to the Contracting Officer, David Marks at david.marks@noaa.gov

Primary Point of Contact: David Marks at david.marks@noaa.gov https://forms.gle/dJnNEYa61Nb8c9X6A mailto:David.marks@noaa.gov