DRAFT RFP - NASA Flown Space Vehicle Multimodal Transportation Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contract

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is seeking a contractor to provide multimodal transportation services for large aerospace vehicles, spacecraft artifacts, aerospace hardware, flown space hardware, and other specialized Government cargo. The contractor will be responsible for providing planning, analysis, engineering design, rigging and cradle development, multimodal transportation options, and relocation execution. The contract will have a base period of five years and may include option periods. The Government intends to establish an enterprise transportation capability capable of supporting a wide range of transportation requirements, including movement of large aerospace vehicles, historic artifacts, launch vehicle components, spacecraft structures, flown space hardware, aerospace assemblies, scientific payloads, and other unique Government assets. • The contractor will be required to provide all personnel, management, engineering services, preservation support, transportation equipment, planning support, regulatory coordination, and operational capabilities necessary to plan and execute transportation operations under task orders issued pursuant to this contract. • The contractor will be responsible for developing and executing transportation concepts that treat flown space vehicles, historic aerospace vehicles, and significant aerospace artifacts as irreplaceable national assets requiring preservation-focused handling, conservative engineering assumptions, documented loadpath control, and deliberate operational pacing. • The contractor will be required to provide a framework for potential cost structures associated with transportation activities and identify the major cost elements and schedule drivers that would influence the overall effort. • The contractor will be responsible for structuring and managing the transportation program from initial planning through final execution, including engineering analysis, transportation planning, regulatory coordination, and operational execution. • The contractor will be required to demonstrate the ability to support transportation operations ranging from small spacecraft or capsules to extremely large aerospace vehicles requiring complex engineering analysis, artifact preservation, infrastructure coordination, public coordination, and multimodal transportation execution.