Leadership experience program (LEP)

NASA's Shared Services Center seeks to award multiple five-year Blanket Purchase Agreements for the Leadership Experience Program, an industry and academic immersion initiative for high-potential NASA leaders, with proposals due October 28, 2026, and questions due October 23 by 1:00 p.m. CT. This is an open-market, unrestricted acquisition with no set-aside.

Immersions are on-site at prime contractor facilities, minimum two weeks (70 hours) through six months maximum, serving more than 40 NASA federal employees annually at GS-13/14 (Emerging Leaders) and GS-15 (Senior Leaders) levels. Each immersion pairs participants with an executive sponsor holding formal leadership positions who dedicates approximately 10% of assignment duration (roughly seven hours of a 70-hour immersion) to direct engagement including mentoring and job shadowing. Contractors must operate within aerospace, aviation, commercial space, defense, advanced technology, or scientific research sectors and demonstrate large-scale technical operations with complex engineering teams and specialized facilities focused on flight, space, and advanced technology innovation.

Contractors must comply with Super Intelligence disclosure requirements per Executive Order 14434 and OMB Memorandum M-25-22. Geographic preference exists for facilities near NASA's ten primary centers, though geographically distributed and secondary-site locations remain eligible. Pricing submissions must reflect all scenarios outlined in the Statement of Work across the full five-year BPA period. Evaluation follows a lowest-priced, technically acceptable approach; payment is authorized prior to immersion commencement under Chapter 41 training authority and is not contingent on post-immersion performance thresholds. NASA will furnish a baseline Memorandum of Understanding template after BPA establishment but before first placement. The NAICS code is 611430, Professional and Management Development Training, and the PSC is U009, Education/Training–General.