Special Notice of Intent to Award to Sole Source

NASA Johnson Space Center has issued a Special Notice announcing its intent to award a sole source contract extension to PAE Applied Technologies, LLC for facilities support services. The notice, posted on September 22, 2025, pertains to the extension of the existing Facilities Contract that requires specialized support across all JSC campuses including the main facility, Ellington Field, and Sonny Carter Training Facility. NASA maintains that only PAE possesses the unique capabilities necessary to provide the critical engineering, operations, maintenance, design, construction, configuration control, work control, and rigging services for JSC's highly complex and specialized research facilities. The contract extension is intended to bridge operations until a follow-on contract is awarded, which is anticipated to occur two years from the current contract expiration date of December 31, 2026.

The primary purpose of this Special Notice is to provide transparency regarding NASA's sole source acquisition strategy while offering other organizations an opportunity to demonstrate competing capabilities that might justify opening the procurement to full competition. Interested contractors must submit their capabilities and qualifications electronically to Jennifer Hoff at jennifer.n.hoff@nasa.gov no later than 3:00 p.m. CST on October 7, 2025. NASA will evaluate these submissions solely to determine whether the acquisition should proceed on a competitive basis rather than sole source. The agency reserves complete discretion in deciding whether to maintain the sole source approach or transition to full and open competition based on the responses received. The acquisition falls under NAICS code 561210 for Facilities Support Services and is not being conducted as a commercial procurement under FAR Part 12.