Justification (Sole Source)Posted Feb 27, 2025

Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator Mission Operations Follow-On (PTD Follow-On) Contract

NASA · NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER

Stage
Justification for other than full competition
NAICS
541715
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
80ARC025PA001
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AR11
Place
Irvine, CA, USA
Contact
Tiffany Goodwin (tiffany.n.goodwin@nasa.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 80ARC025PA001 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Dec 16, 2024
    Special Notice
    Open
  • Dec 19, 2024
    Special Notice
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Feb 27, 2025
    Award Notice
    Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. · $1.8M
    Open
Other notices
  • Feb 27, 2025 · this notice
    Justification (Sole Source)

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What the notice says

Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator Mission Operations Follow-On

Who won similar work

14 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (NASA), same product/service code (PSC) AR11.

Single-winner award sizes (14): middle half $1.0M to $11.4M, median $2.0M; range $238K to $282.2M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
SIERRA LOBO INC1$282.2MDec 13, 2024
MILLENNIUM ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION SERVICES, LLC1$58.6MApr 6, 2026
Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Llc1$25.2MSep 11, 2026
Fort Wayne Metals Fort Wayne IN 46809 USA1$14.0MSep 29, 2025
ELECTRA.AERO INC.1$3.5MNov 13, 2024
AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION1$3.3MNov 13, 2024
JETZERO, INC.1$2.2MNov 13, 2024
Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc.1$1.8MJul 7, 2025
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP1$1.4MNov 13, 2024
RTX CORPORATION1$1.2MNov 13, 2024

Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.

Latest awards

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Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) since 2024 (1 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 16 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Companies are matched to tickers by exact name, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.