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Request for Information - Potential Research and Technology Partnership Opportunities

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION · Orlando, Florida, 32899

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Response status

Due in 12 days

Nov 20, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

Responses remain open.

Posted
Sep 18, 2026
Archive date
Dec 5, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION published this special notice.
  • Competition is listed as No Set aside used.
  • The place of performance is Orlando, Florida.
  • The notice uses NAICS 927110 (Space Research and Technology).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
7cea83f9e41a4ac5a83279a4ec583788
Solicitation
RFI-KSC-ResearchCollaboration-2026
Base type
Special Notice
Version
1 of 1

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
RFI-KSC-ResearchCollaboration-2026
NAICS
927110 — Space Research and Technology
PSC
—
Set-aside
No Set aside used
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Sep 18, 2026
Responses due
Nov 20, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Dec 5, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Special Notice
Organization type
DEPARTMENT
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Oct 21, 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
—
Organization path codes
—
Office address
US
Place of performance
Orlando, Florida, 32899
City code
—
State
Florida
State code
FL
Postal code
32899
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

**SEE ATTACHMENT FOR FULL DETAILS** The KSC Research and Technology (R&T) vision is to establish KSC as a leading hub for space technology innovation to align with the NASA Human Space Mission Directorate (HSMD) Artemis Mission. Central to this vision is the expansion of partnerships with academia, private industry, and other government agencies, particularly with institutions whose technical expertise complements KSC�s existing capabilities. Through these collaborations, KSC aims to diversity its user base, enhance competitiveness, broaden research avenues, and cultivate environments that accelerate technological innovation and advancement in a rapidly evolving landscape. **SEE ATTACHMENT FOR FULL 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

The match score is decomposed so each comparison can be challenged.

No comparable awards are attached to this notice.

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.

Comparable awards are scored on benchmark category, product and service code, industry code, buyer, place, recency, and contract type. Rubric version comparables@2026.08.1.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Oct 21, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 0 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Nov 6, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record; note 2 covers the comparable range. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.