Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition GOES-NOP Spacecraft Bus FE-Flattened Redacted

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JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION (JOFOC)

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) N, O, and P (NOP) Series Spacecraft Bus Anomalous Behavior Support
Identification Number: Requisition
1. Identification of the agency and contracting activity. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Acquisition and Grants Office (AGO) Satellite and Information Acquisition Division (SIAD) located in Silver Spring, MD, proposes to enter into a contract on the basis of other than full and open competition in support of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-NOP series spacecraft operation under the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Office of Satellite Products and Operations (OSPO). 2. The nature and/or description of the action being approved. NOAA intends to award a contract to The Boeing Company (herein referred to as Boeing) on a sole source basis. This acquisition is to provide long-term engineering support for the GOES-NOP series Spacecraft Bus which were built, tested, delivered, and launched by Boeing under National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center under contract number NAS5-98069. NASA transferred the post-launch GOES-NOP series spacecraft activities to NOAA in April 2020 under the NOAA sole source support contract number 1332KP20CNAAA0067 which has since expired. A firm-fixed-price (FFP) and firm-fixed-price level of effort (LOE) hybrid type contract is contemplated for award. 3. A description of the supplies or services required to meet the agency’s needs (including the estimated value).
This requirement is to provide long-term engineering anomaly support for the GOES-NOP series Spacecraft Bus for a period of performance of five years. The contractor will provide engineering support which consists of:
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maintaining the GOES-NOP series spacecraft operations through spacecraft decommissioning and reorbit activities;
providing recommendations for remediation to deficiencies found in spacecraft operations; researching root causes for on-orbit anomalies on the spacecraft bus; developing alterations to spacecraft bus operations to minimize spacecraft bus performance degradation due to on-orbit anomalies; and
conducting research and development as directed by NOAA to improve operation of the spacecraft bus.

This support will allow NESDIS/OSPO to operate the GOES-NOP series spacecraft to provide