Commercial Solutions Opening - NSSL Space Vehicle Processing

The United States Space Force (USSF) Assured Access to Space (AATS) Directorate of Operations (AA3) is issuing a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) in accordance with DFARS 212.70 Defense Commercial Solutions Opening.  Under the CSO, the AATS AA3 may competitively award proposals received in response to a general solicitation, similar to a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), to acquire innovative commercial products, technologies, or services based on a review of solutions by scientific, technological, or other subject matter expert peers within AATS AA3. “Innovative” for CSO purposes, means any new technology, process, or method, including research and development (R&D), or any new application of an existing technology, process or method, as of the date of the submission of a proposal.  Under this CSO, all products, technologies, and services shall be treated as commercial items; products, technologies and services do not have to be “commercially available” to be submitted in response to this solicitation.  If the solution meets the requirements of the regulation, the solution is treated as commercial whereby the Contracting Officer will utilize commercial procedures to develop and execute the resultant award.

This Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(b)(c)(d) and DFARS 212.70 Defense Commercial Solutions Opening, is a competitive solicitation of proposals focused on innovative technologies and services to meet the AATS AA3 SV processing mission needs.  AATS AA3 seeks the best approaches to meet the SV processing objectives within the capability areas listed below. Detailed topics associated with each capability area appear in Attachment 1.