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The Space Development Agency reissued the Transport Layer Tranche 1 request for proposals under Other Transaction Authority on 2022-10-28.
The Space Development Agency intends to have full and open competitions and to create a stable market that incentivizes companies to invest by allowing bidding every two years, according to Director Derek Tournear.
The Space Development Agency asserted that the Transport Layer is a new constellation prototype and therefore can be procured using an Other Transaction Authority contract.
Maxar Technologies challenged the Defense Department procurement of 126 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 due to the financial burden on contractors.
Airbus and Raytheon filed GAO protests after SDA selected L3Harris and SpaceX to produce eight Tranche 0 missile-tracking satellites, and those protests were settled after SDA agreed to reevaluate proposals.
The Transport Layer Tranche 0 constellation is projected to launch in 2022 and consists of eight missile-tracking satellites produced by L3Harris and SpaceX under previous SDA selections.
The Space Development Agency issued a new solicitation for the Transport Layer Tranche 1 on 2021-10-28 under Other Transaction Authority.
The Space Development Agency considers the Transport Layer a prototype program even though the plan is to use commercially produced satellites, with the prototype being the constellation and its integrated system behavior.
The Space Development Agency plans to award contracts for new satellites every two years to a diversity of suppliers instead of relying on long-term single-vendor awards.
The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency canceled a solicitation issued 2021-08-30 for 126 satellites and reopened a new procurement on 2021-10-28.
Since becoming SDA director two years ago, Derek Tournear has focused the agency on acquiring and deploying systems at a faster pace than is typical in Pentagon programs.
Capella Space signed and maintained contracts with the US Navy, US Air Force, National Geospatial Agency, In-Q-Tel, the Space Development Agency, and the US Space Force to provide on-demand, high-resolution SAR data and analytics for the US government.
York Space Systems is building communications satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency under a $94,000,000 contract awarded in 2020.
All feedback on the Draft T1DES RFP must be provided via email to osd.pentagon.ousd-r-e.mbx.hq085022r0001@mail.mil no later than 2021-11-08 at 12:00pm EST with the subject line "SDA Draft T1DES RFP Feedback."
The Space Development Agency issued a request for proposals for the Transport Layer Tranche 1 on 2021-08-30.
Proposals for the SDA Transport Layer Tranche 1 were due on 2023-10-08.
The Space Development Agency said as many as three suppliers could be selected to produce the 126 satellites for Tranche 1.
SDA selected Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems last year to produce the first 20 satellites of the Transport Layer Tranche 0.
Maxar Technologies filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on 2021-10-08 challenging a Space Development Agency solicitation for industry bids for 126 satellites.
Maxar Technologies offers commercial space capabilities to the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 request for proposal.