Intent to Award Sole Source - 6U CSD (Satellite Dispenser)

This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract.  The award is to be a Firm-Fixed Price contract pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), “Contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available.”  The contracting officer has determined that only one source, Planetary Systems Corp., is capable of meeting the requirement without the Government incurring significant additional costs.

The Department of the Air Force has a requirement for two (2) Flight CubeSat Canisterized Satellite Dispensers (CSD).  The Canisterized Satellite Dispenser (CSD) is made of aluminum alloys.  It is designed to contain a payload during launch and release it in orbit.  This is detailed in the attached Statement of Work.

The NAICS code for this requirement is 334220 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing), with a size standard of 1,250 employees.  This notice of intent to award a sole source contract is not a request for competitive proposals. 

Address questions regarding this notice of intent to Michael Muskopf via e-mail at michael.muskopf.1@us.af.mil.

Any correspondence sent via e-mail must not exceed 5 megabytes, including attachments, and contain the subject line “Q0003 – Satellite Dispenser”. E-mails with compressed files are not permitted.  Note that e-mail filters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are designed to filter e-mails without subject lines or with suspicious subject lines or contents (i.e., .exe or .zip files).  Therefore, if the specified subject line is not included, the e-mail may not get through the e-mail filters. Also be advised that .zip or .exe files are not allowable attachments and may be deleted by the email filters at Wright-Patterson.  If sending attachments with email, ensure only .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls or .xlsx documents are sent.  The email filter may delete any other form of attachments. 

A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.