AWARD
A -- System F6 Phase 2 - System F6 Phase 2 J&A
- Notice Date
- 12/4/2009
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-SN-09-52
- Archive Date
- 12/18/2009
- Point of Contact
- Chris Glista,
- E-Mail Address
-
christopher.glista@darpa.mil
(christopher.glista@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- HR0011-10-C-0008
- Award Date
- 11/25/2009
- Awardee
- Orbital Sciences Corporation, 21839 Atlantic Blvd<br />, Dulless, Virginia 201666850, United States
- Award Amount
- $74,599,943
- Description
- System F6 Phase 2 J&A The System F-6 program seeks to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of a satellite architecture wherein the functionality of a traditional "monolithic" spacecraft is replaced by a cluster of wirelessly-interconnected spacecraft modules. Each such "fractionated" module would contribute a unique capability, e.g., computation and data handling, communications relay, guidance and navigation, payload sensing, etc., or it could replicate the capability of another module. The fractionated modules would fly in a loose, proximate cluster orbit or potentially self-assemble into an aggregate system. Critical to this architecture is a robust, system-level approach to ensuring security, integrity, and availability, while implementing authentication and non-repudiation. The modules create a virtual satellite, delivering a comparable mission capability to a monolithic spacecraft, while significantly enhancing functional and programmatic flexibility and robustness, reducing risk through the mission life and spacecraft development cycle, and enabling incremental deployment of the system. The System F-6 architecture is designed to provide valuable options to decision makers throughout the life cycle development of future space systems that are absent in present-day monolithic architectures. The contract type is cost-plus-fixed-fee (completion.) A fixed price contract is only appropriate when the risk involved can be predicted with an acceptable degree of certainty. However, for this research and development effort, the conditions described at FAR 16.301-2 are present. Uncertainties involved in contract performance do not permit costs to be estimated with sufficient accuracy to use any type of fixed-price contract. There is not any reasonable basis for firm pricing. Therefore, use of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is appropriate for Phase 2 of the System F6 program. Phase 1 of the System F6 program was awarded on a competitive basis. The follow-on Phase 2 effort was awarded without full and open competition. See the attached Justification and Approval (J&A) for Other Than Full and Open Competition for a detailed rationale of the decision not to compete.
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