Spacecraft Engineering, Software, Research and Development Services

This notice is a ‘Presolicitation Notice’ and does not constitute a request for proposal, request for quote, or invitation for bid. The intent of this notice is to provide the presolicitation notice in accordance with FAR SubPart 5.2 Synopses of Proposed Contract Action in preparation for the anticipated release of a Request for Proposal (RFP). NRL reserves the right to cancel this acquisition at any time.

RFP #N00173-25-R-HH01, titled “Spacecraft Engineering, Software, Research and Development Services” is planned to be issued in July of 2025 using full and open competition. The solicitation will use trade-off source selection procedures in accordance with FAR Part 15. Award is anticipated to be made in accordance with FAR SubPart 15.101. The resulting contract is planned to be issued as a cost-plus-fixed-fee, level-of-effort (LOE) procurement. The period of performance will be for five (5) years.

The anticipated LOE involved will be a mix of labor categories, to include key personnel, consisting of 340,000 hours for the total period of performance, evenly divided per year. The North American Industry Code Standard (NAICS) is 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). The Product Service Code is AR13 Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Experimental Development.

Interested parties may submit questions or feedback by the response deadline to the Primary Point of Contact listed above. Phone calls regarding this pre-solicitation notice will not be accepted. THIS SOLICITATION WILL BE OFFERED IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT ONLY. NO HARD COPIES WILL BE PROVIDED. Offerors can view and/or download the RFP and attachments at SAM.gov (Contract Opportunities) when the RFP is posted. Interested parties can register under the Interested Parties Vendors list.

Prospective offerors MUST register themselves on the website. Prospective offerors must also be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM in order to participate in this procurement.