Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) 1 Year Contract Extensionview on SAM.gov

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has a requirement for the extension of Contract NNG04EB99C with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for a continuation of the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission. SwRI is currently performing the instrument operations management, which includes instrument operations planning, scheduling, and engineering parameter review and trending, as well as the science operations, which includes planning all instrument modes, calibrations, regions of interest, and data dissemination to the funded co-investigators and general scientific community through the Science Data Center at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. NASA/GSFC intends to issue a sole-source Request for Proposal (RFP) for an extension to SwRI's current contract, NNG04EB99C, to acquire these services under the statutory authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1)--Only One Responsible Source. The estimated period of performance of this cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) contract extension will be for one (1) year from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. SwRI along with the support of its subcontractors is the only organization currently qualified to fulfil the subject requirement. SwRI was competitively selected in May 2005, under the Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for MMS (AO-02-OSS-03), for science payload development, flight operations, and mission scientific analysis. The AO provided for the mission formulation, development, flight, and closeout phases. The MMS Science payload is a state-of-the-art field and particles science payload comprised of many individual sensors on each of the four identical MMS spacecraft. It advances the prior art by a factor of up to 100 through use of multiple linked sensors to view the entire sky without waiting for the spacecraft to spin. The entire mission science payload was conceived, planned, and managed by SwRI. SwRI and its subcontractors have performed the MMS flight science operations and data analysis/archive functions since mission operations began in September 2015. They developed the original science operations concept, designed and built the science payload consisting of more than 125 instrument detectors/components distributed across the four-spacecraft constellation, and developed the associated payload operations software, support tools, operational procedures, and data processing workflows. Over more than a decade of successful mission operations, the team has accumulated extensive mission-specific knowledge required to safely operate the instrument suite, calibrate and interpret complex science measurements, and maximize scientific return. While the Government owns or has appropriate rights to many mission assets, successfully transitioning these highly specialized science operations to another organization would require substantial knowledge transfer, operational validation, personnel training, and certification. Such a transition would introd…