USGS Landsat Science Team

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is seeking proposals from academic, industry, and non-governmental organization scientists and engineers to serve on the USGS/NASA Landsat Science Team. The objective is to conduct scientific research and provide recommendations critical to the success of the Landsat and Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) programs, including ensuring continuity of the Landsat data archive, advancing cloud-based Landsat science and applications, and understanding scientific challenges for the next generation Landsat Next mission. Prospective offerors must demonstrate expertise in areas such as Earth observation data characterization, Landsat science data products, land-water-climate interactions, and remote sensing time series processing and analysis. Past performance has been removed as an evaluation factor, and technical proposals are limited to 25 pages. The solicitation (140G0125R0001) was posted on October 18, 2024, with proposals due by December 17, 2024, and an anticipated contract start date of March 1, 2025.

The solicitation is an unrestricted procurement with no specific set-aside designation, using NAICS code 541715 for Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences. The USGS anticipates awarding 4-6 contracts with a total estimated value of $5 million over a five-year period (base year plus four option years). Each individual contract is expected to have an annual value between $150,000 and $250,000. The period of performance will run from March 1, 2025, to February 28, 2030, with contracts to be issued to the lead Principal Investigator's organization. Deliverables will include annual and final reports, participation in team meetings, and contributions to white papers and publications. International collaborators and foreign university professors are eligible to participate, though federal government employees are prohibited from serving as Principal Investigators or non-funded Co-Investigators.