NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide the systems needed to return temperature-sensitive science payloads to Earth from the Moon.
The Lunar Freezing System contract is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award with orders for delivery at cost plus a fixed fee. The contract begins Thursday, December 4, with a base period of 66 months plus two option periods that could extend the award until June 3, 2033. The contract has a total estimated value of $37 million.
Under the contract, the awardee will be responsible for providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective hardware and software systems that NASA needs to preserve temperature-critical scientific materials, including lunar geological samples, human research samples, and biological experiment samples, as they travel aboard the Artemis spacecraft to Earth from the lunar surface. The successful contractor was selected after a thorough evaluation by NASA engineers of the submitted proposals. NASA’s Source Selection Authority made the selection after reviewing the evaluation materials based on the evaluation criteria contained in the Request for Proposals.
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Tiernan Doyle
Headquarters, Washington
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