The purpose of this special notice is to inform industry of planned milestone schedule target dates for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System(EOSDIS) Evolution and Development 3 (EED-3) procurement.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has a services contract requirement for the continued improvement, reliability, availability, functionality, operability, and performance of hardware and software systems within the Earth Observing System Data and Information System(EOSDIS) Evolution and Development 3 (EED-3) for the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project, Code 423. This procurement will be a follow-on to an existing contract, NNG15HZ39C EOSDIS EED-2, contractor Raytheon. 

The contractor shall provide for the development and sustaining engineering of software and hardware systems that provide science data management for the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project within NASA’s Science Missions Directorate Earth Science Program.

A major activity under this contract will be for evolution and development engineering of several on-premise and commercial cloud-based systems. The EED-3 contractor is required to coordinate and integrate task related activities with the ESDIS Project, the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs), other Earth science data centers, the science investigator teams, the user community, as well as other Earth Observing Systems contractors. The contractor’s overall goal shall be to continuously improve the reliability, availability, functionality, operability, and performance of hardware and software systems within the EOSDIS while reducing operational and maintenance costs.

Planned CPAF/IDIQ Services and Support Requirements:

Program Management

Transition of Engineering Responsibilities

Development Engineering

Maintenance Engineering

System Engineering

Science Support

Operations Support

Studies and Prototyping

Planned Procurement Milestone Schedule Target Dates:

Draft RFP Release: April 30, 2020

Final RFP Release: July 31, 2020

Proposal Due Date: August 31, 2020

Contract Award: June 1, 2021

All milestone dates are tentative and may be subject to change.

Related Notice: RFI-2019-EED3, Published July 9, 2019, Response/Close Date August 12, 2019; Inactive.