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Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) 1.0

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Submission Closed05/06/2026, 09:00:00 PM UTC

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AI Contract Overview

NASA Johnson Space Center is seeking to increase the cumulative Not-to-Exceed value of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts from $2.6 billion to $4.2 billion through a sole source modification to existing agreements with multiple industry partners, including Astrobotic, Blue Origin, Ceres Robotics, Draper, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, Lockheed Martin, Moon Express, Orbit Beyond, Redwire, Sierra Space, SpaceX, and Tyvak. These contracts, awarded under FAR Part 12 as firm-fixed-price, multiple award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity instruments, enable the safe integration, transportation, and operation of NASA payloads using contractor-provided assets such as lunar landers, launch vehicles, surface systems, and re-entry vehicles. The modification aims to extend and sustain these services without initiating a new competitive procurement, relying instead on the existing contract base. Interested parties may submit their capabilities and qualifications via email to tasha.beasley@nasa.gov by 4 p.m. CST on May 6, 2026, solely to inform NASA’s decision on whether to pursue competition; the Government retains full discretion to proceed as a sole source. This action is non-competitive by intent and does not constitute a set-aside, with all responses subject to evaluation under applicable procurement regulations and the Ombudsman clause.

General Info

NASA seeks to increase CLPS contracts from $2.6B to $4.2B via sole-source modification with existing partners.

Agency

National Aeronautics And Space Administration → NASA Johnson Space CenterView Agency

NAICS

481212 - Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air TransportationView NAICS

Place of Performance

TX, USA

Set-Aside

NONE

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PhaseClosed

PostedApr 27

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Response DeadlineMay 6

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Submission Closed

05/06/2026, 09:00:00 PM UTC

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyNational Aeronautics And Space Administration → NASA Johnson Space Center

Contacts1 person available

OfficeHOUSTON, TX, 77058, USA

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National Aeronautics And Space Administration → NASA Johnson Space Center

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Office AddressHOUSTON, TX, 77058, USA

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Catherine Staggs

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Full Description

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 services for 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