Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) 1. 0
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 80JSC026CLPS1
- Agency
-
Johnson Space Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 481212 Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation
- PSC
- AR13 Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research And Supporting Activities; Experimental Development
- Place of performance
- United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
NASA's Johnson Space Center has issued a Special Notice regarding the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) 1.0 program, a commercial initiative that enables private sector companies to deliver NASA payloads to the lunar surface. This special notice, posted on April 27, 2026, announces NASA's intention to increase the cumulative Not-to-Exceed maximum ordering value for existing CLPS contracts from $2.6 billion to $4.2 billion. The CLPS contracts are structured as FAR Part 12 commercial service agreements, operating as firm-fixed-price, multiple award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts. NASA currently maintains contracts with twelve vendors, including major aerospace companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX, Lockheed Martin Space, and Sierra Space, as well as emerging commercial space companies. The agency is contemplating sole source contract modifications to increase the maximum ordering value across these existing agreements.
The primary objective of this Special Notice is to solicit input from interested organizations regarding whether NASA should pursue this contract modification on a competitive or sole source basis. Organizations wishing to respond must submit their capabilities and qualifications electronically to tasha.beasley@nasa.gov no later than 4:00 PM CST on May 6, 2026, with oral communications explicitly prohibited. The CLPS program encompasses all activities necessary to safely integrate, accommodate, transport, and operate NASA payloads using contractor-provided assets, including launch vehicles, lunar lander spacecraft, lunar surface systems, Earth re-entry vehicles, and associated resources. Eligibility is limited to organizations capable of providing these comprehensive commercial lunar payload delivery services. NASA will evaluate submitted capabilities and qualifications solely to determine whether the acquisition should proceed as a competitive or sole source effort.
Notice text
NASA/Johnson Space Center (JSC) has a requirement to increase the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts cumulative Not-to-Exceed (NTE) maximum ordering value. The CLPS contracts are FAR Part 12 commercial service, firm-fixed-price, multiple award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts.
NASA/JSC intends to issue a sole source contract modification to continue servicesfor all activities necessary to safely integrate, accommodate, transport, and operate NASA Payloads using contractor-provided assets, including launch vehicles, lunar lander spacecraft, lunar surface systems, Earth re-entry vehicles and associated resources.
NASA has CLPS contracts with Astrobotic Technology, Inc. Contract 80HQTR19D0005, Blue Origin, LLC Contract 80JSC020D0010, Ceres Robotics, Inc. Contract 80JSC020D0011, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. Contract 80HQTR19D0019, Firefly Aerospace, Inc. Contract 80HQTR19D0009, Intuitive Machines, LLC Contract 80HQTR19D0010, Lockheed Martin Space Contract 80HQTR19D0014, Moon Express, Inc. Contract 80HQTR19D0015, Orbit Beyond, Inc Contract 80HQTR19D0018, Redwire Space Sensors, Inc. Contract 80HQTR19D0007, Sierra Space Contract 80JSC020D0012, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Contract 80JSC020D0013, and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. Contract 80JSC020D0014.
NASA is contemplating a sole source contract modification to increase the CLPS contracts maximum NTE ordering value from $2.6 billion, to $4.2 billion.
The Government intends to acquire a commercial product or service using FAR Part 12.
Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.
Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort electronically via email to tasha.beasley@nasa.gov not later than 4pm CST on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct this acquisition on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.
NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at : https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/Procurement-Ombuds-Comp-Advocate-Listing.pdf
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