Commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Destination Contract (CLDC) Industry Day

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NASA plans to hold a public forum as the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Destination Contract (CLDC) Industry Day and One-on-One meetings with industry representatives starting on May 5, 2025. Interested parties and International Partner community representatives are welcomed. NASA is currently developing Phase 2 requirements for Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) capabilities that would be able to support NASA astronauts, international astronauts, and other spaceflight participants safely in LEO on a commercially-owned and operated space station.

Additional technical and strategic information along with a preliminary schedule can be found in the CLDC Acquisition Website: https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/jsc-procurement/cldc/

NASA will provide technical documents in the upcoming CLDC Technical Library site. Please continue to monitor www.sam.gov postings and the Acquisition Website for updates on the release of any documents.

Please note, the documents/links on the CLDC Acquisition Website listed above are for information and planning purposes to allow industry the opportunity to comment and to promote competition.

CLDC Industry Day & One-on-One Meetings

The Commercial LEO Development Program (CLDP) will host a hybrid Industry Day (In-Person & Virtual), plus One-on-One meetings. The purpose of this event is to provide preliminary information on NASA’s requirements and procurement strategy for the CLDP’s anticipated Phase 2 contract as well as solicit industry feedback. NASA plans to present updates to previously provided requirements as well as additional acquisition details. NASA intends to provide the Industry Day charts in the attachments section of this notice in advance of Industry Day to allow preliminary feedback which will help NASA provide clarifications and meaningful discussions during Industry Day and One-on-Ones. Please continue to check this site for CLDC Industry Day Chart attachment and additional instructions on how to provide feedback.

The purpose of the One-on-One meetings is to obtain industry comments and feedback on the CLDC Phase 2 Contract Requirements and Strategy and further discuss industry’s input obtained from the RFI/Sources Sought notice. The One-on-One meetings are expected to be held after the Industry Day Presentation, tentatively starting in the afternoon on May 6, 2025 through May 7, 2025, to accommodate all potential offerors attending a session. NASA plans to schedule 50-minute sessions for each One-on-One meeting and will notify interested parties of their scheduled day and time prior to the event. NASA plans for only Phase-2 CLDC potential prime offerors to participate in One-on-One meetings, but may include subcontractors or teammates.

The One-on-One meetings are planned to be open conversation sessions in which neither side will make a formal presentation. To request a One-on-One meeting, please indicate as part of your company’s RSVP (instructions below) and include any scheduling constraints regarding One-on-One dates/times, which NASA will try to accommodate.

The following topics may be discussed at the One-on-One meetings:

1. The general purpose of the anticipated CLDC procurement and any related information which NASA has already made accessible to the public or is otherwise being made available to all potential offerors;


2. Specific topics/information identified in the RFI/Source Sought Notice and supporting information provided in www.SAM.gov.


3. Information that describes the federal procurement process as defined by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS), and/or other published procurement policy documents.

The following topics will not be discussed at the One-on-One meetings:

1. Proprietary, Privacy-Act-protected, or confidential business information of incumbent contractor(s), partners, or other business entities.


2. Speculating or requesting NASA’s endorsement on a specific industry approach (e.g., technical and management approaches, technical efficiencies.)


3. CLD Phase 1 contractor’s and/or partners’ performance data or approaches.

All questions and answers from this event will be documented and posted on a non-attributable basis on www.SAM.gov. Information submitted in response to this RFI/Sources Sought marked as “Confidential Commercial or Financial Information” may be used by NASA in developing the best approach for a CLD contract strategy. However, any specific confidential/proprietary information (e.g., approach and proposal strategy) will be handled appropriately and will not be shared on www.SAM.gov.

No audio or video recordings are permitted at the Industry Day presentation or One-on-One meetings.

Attendance:

Industry Day Presentation (May 5-6, 2025):

• Space is limited and pre-registration is required to ensure availability for in-person attendance and virtual capacity.


• Each company will be limited to having a maximum of seven (7) in-person attendees. In-person attendance is not mandatory.
  
  
  
  • Additional in-person attendance may be available upon request
  
  
  
  


• A virtual attendance option will be available via Microsoft Teams.
  
  
  
  • NASA encourages interested parties to limit virtual attendees to a maximum of ten (10) people per company.
  
  
  
  


• Please indicate your attendance status (i.e., in person or virtual) with your registration.

One-on-One Meetings (May 6-7, 2025)

• In-person and/or virtual option will be available through Microsoft Teams.


• A combined in-person/virtual attendance should not exceed ten (10) people per company.
  
  
  
  • CLDC Potential prime offerors may include their planned subcontractors or teammates within this 10-person limit.
  
  
  
  


• One-on-One meetings will not exceed 50 minutes each and will be scheduled in the order they are requested. Please submit only one request per interested party.


• One-on-One meetings are reserved only for potential CLDC prime offerors.

Registration:

Interested parties are required to register by submitting a request using the following registration link and form: https://www.nasa.gov/cldc-industry-day-registration/. Please submit only one registration request per company/organization no later than noon CT on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Please include the following information in the registration request:

1. Company/Organization Name:

2. Company Point of Contact:

• name, position/title,


• email address and,


• phone number.

3. List of people attending in-person by name and position/title.

4. List of people attending virtually by name and position/title

5. If requesting a One-on-One meeting (available only to potential CLDC prime offerors), please provide the following:

• List of people attending in-person by name and position/title; and/or,


• List of people attending virtually by name and position/title

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