NASA Acquisition Forecast
It is NASA policy to prepare an annual forecast and a
semiannual update of expected contract opportunities, or classes
of contract opportunities, for each fiscal year. The
forecast consolidates anticipated procurements (in excess of the
simplified acquisition threshold) at each NASA Center with the
aim of increasing industries' advance knowledge of NASA
requirements and to enhance competition.
The procurements described in this forecast are expected to be
solicited in this fiscal year and beyond, based on the best
information available at the time of publication. All
projected procurements are subject to revision or
cancellation. Final decisions as to the extent of
competition, small or disadvantaged business set-asides,
estimated value, etc., will not be made until each procurement is
initiated. The data is for planning purposes only; it does
not represent a presolicitation synopsis or constitute an
invitation for bid or request for proposal, nor is it a
commitment by the Government to purchase the described supplies
and services. You are urged to review
FedBizOpps.gov and the
NASA Acquisition Internet Service for the actual
notice of a pending contract action.
The following Acquisition Forecast is provided by each NASA
Center or procurement activity:
Data Definitions
- CNTR. Identifies the Center/activity
conducting the procurement.
- PSCODE. Indicates the
Product and Service Code (PSC) applicable to
the forecasted procurement as described in the Federal
Procurement Data System (FPDS) classification scheme and
required by P.L. 93-400. PSCs have up to four
alphanumeric identifiers. The first one or two
elements of the PSC generally correspond to the codings
used to categorize procurements published on FedBizOpps.gov.
As much of the PSC as possible
is used, depending on the current knowledge of the
procurement.
- TYPE. Identifies the procurement
category as Research and Development (R&D),
Services (SERV), or Supplies and Equipment (SUPS
),
according to FPDS definitions.
- VALUE. Indicates the approximate
dollar value by the following ranges:
- -- $100,000. to
$1,000,000.
- -- $1,000,000. to
$5,000,000.
- -- over $5,000,000.
- RELQTR and RELFY.
Indicates the anticipated time, by quarter and Government
fiscal year, for the issuance of the solicitation.
The Government fiscal year begins on October 1st.
- SMALLBUS. Identifies the extent to
which the procurement is presently considered to be
exclusively available for small and small disadvantaged
businesses to perform: "FULL"
indicates a full set-aside is contemplated; "
PART"
indicates a partial set-aside is expected;
"NONE"
indicates that no set-aside is currently planned;
and "TBD" means that no
preliminary determination has been made.
- COMP. Indicates whether the
procurement is expected to be competitive "Y
",
or non-competitive "N".
- POC. Identifies the name and office
code of a NASA employee at the procuring activity who is
knowledgeable of the procurement and who can assist
interested parties in assessing their abilities to
participate in the procurement, either as a prime or
subcontractor.
- PHONE. Identifies the commercial phone
number of the person named as the POC.
- DESCRIPTION. Provides a brief
description of the procurement and any other information
the procuring activity considers to be useful to
potential sources.
- UPDT. Indicates whether the
procurement data has been updated since the previous
forecast. Each time a forecast is updated, this
entry will be correspondingly annotated; e.g., a
procurement action that has had some of its forecast
information revised twice since its original publication
would have the number "2" in this
column.
Additional Acquisition Information
- Other procurements not specifically identified by PSC are
included under a miscellaneous category, providing the
total number of actions and total value.
- All questions pertaining to the forecast procurements
contained in this report should be directed to the
specified points of contact (POC) at the contracting
activity or the Center's
Small/Minority Business Contacts. Interested
firms are invited to contact the Centers' Small Business
Offices to be included on source lists for their
particular areas of contracting capability.
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