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Small Bodies Discipline Node Support Services
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center is seeking to award a sole source contract to the University of Maryland College Park for ongoing support of the Small Bodies Discipline Node, which is responsible for ingesting, validating, and curating planetary data from NASA missions and delivering tools for scientific discovery and data access. The contract will sustain critical functions including data archival, preservation, distribution, standards maintenance, and the provision of services that enable researchers to locate and analyze planetary mission data. This effort is not considered a commercial product or service under FAR Part 12, and the government retains full discretion to proceed without competitive procurement based on evaluation of capabilities submitted by interested organizations. Proposals must be submitted by July 16, 2026, to the designated points of contact, and any decision not to compete the contract will be made solely by the government. The procurement is governed by NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, and the NAICS code is 541715. The performance location is College Park, Maryland, with the contracting office based in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has a requirement for Small Bodies Discipline Node Support Services.
NASA/GSFC intends to issue a sole source contract to acquire Small Bodies Discipline Node Support Services from University of Maryland College Park.
The Small Bodies Discipline Node at the University of Maryland College Park is tasked with continuing its core mission of ingesting, validating, and curating planetary data while providing essential discovery and access tools for the scientific community. The objective of this contract effort is to continue the work of Planet Data System discipline node in the provision of essential planetary mission support, data archival, preservation, discovery, distribution, and data usage services, as well as maintenance of standards and documentation, and provision of the services that enable discovering and accessing NASA planetary mission data for analysis.
The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial product or commercial service using FAR Part 12.
Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to Candis.Edwards@nasa.gov and Carlos.Natera@nasa.gov than 11:00AM, Eastern Standard Time, on July 16, 2026. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort 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
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