What is NASA procurement?

What is NASA procurement?

The mission of the Office of Procurement is to provide functional management, leadership, and policy direction of purchasing and financial assistance activities for NASA (excluding Space Act Agreements).

How do you get a contract with NASA?

How to Do Business with NASA

1. Identify Your Product or Service.
2. Register Your Business.
3. Identify Your Target Market Within NASA.
4. Identify Current NASA Procurement Opportunities.
5. Familiarize Yourself with NASA Contracting Procedures.
6. Investigate Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Contracts.
7. Seek Additional Assistance as Needed.

What companies does NASA contract?

Contracts

• Blue Origin (NNJ10TA02S)
• Paragon Space Development Corporation (NNJ10TA03S)
• Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems.
• The Boeing Company.
• United Launch Alliance (NNJ10TA06S)

How long are NASA contracts?

The STTR Phase I contracts last for 13 months with a maximum funding of $125,000, and Phase II contracts last for 24 months with the maximum contract value of $750,000.

Who are NASA’s partners?

Currently, NASA works with commercial partners such as SpaceX and Boeing to develop and provide crew capsules for missions to the space station. Additionally, NASA just announced that, after a competition between three companies, SpaceX received the contract to build the lunar lander for the agency’s Artemis program.

Who is NASA’s third largest corporate contractor?

In FY 2020, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received $2.81 billion in contract awards (prime contracts) or 14.9% of total contract funds awarded by NASA. Runner-up was Boeing with $1.49 billion (7.9%) followed by Lockheed Martin in third place with $1.40 billion (7.4%).

Who won NASA contract?

SpaceX
Elon Musk’s company bested Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and others in the contest to carry American astronauts to the lunar surface.

Why is NASA using private companies?

As the US plans its return to the Moon, a debate is emerging about the role of private firms. NASA has hired them to do everything from sending robots on the lunar surface to developing the landers that will carry humans there. For now, NASA has hired Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build lunar landers.

Is NASA partnering with SpaceX?

NASA announced on Friday that it had awarded a contract to SpaceX for $2.9 billion to use Starship to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon. The contract extends NASA’s trend of relying on private companies to ferry people, cargo and robotic explorers to space.

Is NASA get more funding?

President Joe Biden’s federal budget proposal for 2022 gives NASA more science funding than ever before while continuing to pave the way for the next human moon landing in 2024. Of the agency’s total proposed budget, about $7.9 billion will go to the agency’s science division, a 9% increase from 2021.

Is NASA funded by taxpayers?

As a federal agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) receives its funding from the annual federal budget passed by the United States Congress.