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The Space Enterprise Consortium was created in 2017 to attract space companies to work on military contracts.
One SpEC OTA objective is to improve the timeline from solicitation to award for Department of Defense prototypes.
Advanced Technology International was awarded a five-year agreement to oversee up to $100,000,000 worth of projects for SpEC in November 2017.
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center released a solicitation for bids on 2020-03-18 for a 10-year contract to manage the Space Enterprise Consortium.
The Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) was created in 2017.
Proposals for the 10-year Space Enterprise Consortium manager contract are due 2020-04-20.
SpEC uses Other Transaction Authorities (OTA) as a nontraditional contracting process to solicit bids from member companies.
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium selected L3Harris in 2018 for an $84,000,000 contract as the prime system integrator to design, develop, integrate, and test NTS-3, including ground mission applications.
The Space and Missile Systems Center plans to release a solicitation in 2020 for a follow-on to the Space Enterprise Consortium.
The Space Enterprise Consortium started in 2017 with a $100,000,000 budget and 50 members.
The Space Enterprise Consortium has spent $410,000,000 on 59 projects to date.
The Space Enterprise Consortium grew to include 350 members and a $1,400,000,000 budget in 2020.
The contracts announced in January on the Space Enterprise Consortium website are part of the Air Force’s effort to improve space weather monitoring.
SpEC has additional projects soon to be awarded that are worth $197,000,000.
By 2018 the SpEC funding ceiling was increased from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000.
When the original SpEC contract was awarded in 2017, the funding ceiling for projects was $100,000,000.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center aims to select a new contractor next year to manage SpEC.
SpEC has awarded 54 prototype contracts across 16 project areas worth about $312,000,000.
ATI received a five-year contract to manage SpEC in November 2017.
SpEC’s current funds available for projects total $500,000,000 and the Air Force is considering increasing that to $12,000,000,000 over the next decade.