NASA has begun soliciting feedback on a draft request for proposals for the second iteration of a potential five-year contract to provide scientific research services for a Goddard Space Flight Center subdivision focused on hydrosphere, biosphere and geophysics.
According to a presolicitation notice published Tuesday, comments on the draft RFP are due April 22.
The space agency plans to compete the Hydrosphere, Biosphere and Geophysics, or HBG, Support Services II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract as a small business set-aside program.
HBG Support Services II Contract Scope
The contract requirement seeks to provide scientific research to help conceive, develop and apply space, field-deployed and laboratory-based technologies and observations to address issues related to water resources, land and ocean ecosystems, and changes in the Earth’s cryosphere, among others.
The procurement vehicle will support science and research activities within the Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory and labs that make up the HBG subdivision within Goddard Space’s Earth Sciences Division: the Cryospheric Sciences, Ocean Ecology, Hydrological Sciences, Biospheric Sciences, and Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratories.
According to the statement of work, support services are categorized into six major areas: science; computing; instrumentation development; calibration and validation; field campaigns; and communications and public outreach.
In addition to general scientific research, the science category covers modeling, simulation and data assimilation, as well as scientific mission development, planning and execution.
Meanwhile, computing services include science data processing operations and data product archiving and distribution.
In January 2020, NASA awarded Science Systems and Applications Inc. a potential five-year, $425 million contract to provide scientific research support for HBG.
