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NASA FFRDC at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Competitive Procurement Request for Information (RFI) / Sources Sought Notice (SSN)

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION · Pasadena, California

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Response status

Historical record

Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC

This notice is no longer open.

Posted
Aug 3, 2026
Archive date
Dec 31, 2026
SAM status
Active
This is a preserved solicitation record. The response window is closed because the published deadline passed.

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION published this special notice.
  • The place of performance is Pasadena, California.
  • The notice uses NAICS 541715 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
00444b47c0a2406aa913c5294cb46e53
Solicitation
FFRDC-26-RFI-SSN
Base type
Special Notice
Version
2 of 2

Solicitation facts

Structured fields from the current SAM notice version. A dash means the source did not publish a value.

Notice type
Special Notice
Solicitation number
FFRDC-26-RFI-SSN
NAICS
541715 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
PSC
AJ12 — GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY R&D SERVICES; GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; APPLIED RESEARCH
Set-aside
—
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Aug 3, 2026
Responses due
Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Dec 31, 2026
Archive type
autocustom
Base type
Special Notice
Organization type
DEPARTMENT
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Aug 29, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Department code
—
Subagency
—
Subagency code
—
Office
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Organization path
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Organization path codes
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Office address
US
Place of performance
Pasadena, California
City code
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State
California
State code
CA
Postal code
—
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is hereby soliciting information regarding potential sources for a new competitive procurement for the management and operation of NASA�s Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA is also seeking input regarding potential procurement strategies. See the attachment titled "2026 08 03 FFRDC RFI-SSN" for complete details.

Comparable award range

Historical award values for work matched by the fixed rubric—not an estimate of this opportunity.

No past awards scored highly enough to form a comparable range.

Comparable awards

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No comparable awards are attached to this notice.

Amendment history

A version is preserved whenever the normalized notice contents change.

VersionNotice typeObservedResponses dueContent hash
1Special NoticeAug 10, 2026Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC6ab3e878421098c6
2Special NoticeAug 28, 2026Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC8590af58642adab6

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

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Sources and method

Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Aug 29, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.