Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program (CSDAP)

NASA has awarded a sole source Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program to Airbus DS GEO Inc. (Airbus), Herndon, Virginia. The Justification of Full and Open Competition (JOFOC) is attached. The total value of this fixed-price BPA is up to $7 million for each call. The BPA has a five-year ordering period from the effective date of the contract, July 29, 2021. The work will be performed at the contractor’s facility in Herndon, Virginia. The purpose of this requirement is to acquire imagery data with high spectral and high spatial resolutions, increased temporal frequency or other novel capabilities in support of existing Earth science research and application activities. Airbus operates a constellation of 11 optical satellites: Pléiades & SPOT series and 3 radar satellites: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth Observation Data: TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and PAZ, all X-band radar satellites. For information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov.