Freelancer Wins Task Order with NASA Langley Research Center
December 08, 2021 at 05:47 pm EST
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Freelancer Limited announced that NASA had updated clause JSC 52.216-90 IDIQ Minimum and Maximum Ordering Limits (AUG 2018) to increase the maximum ordering limit which may be awarded cumulatively across all NOIS2 contracts from $24.9M by $150.1M to USD 175M. Nothing is required from the current NOIS2 contractors under this On-Ramping solicitation to remain part of the existing NOIS2 multi-award contract. The existing NOIS2 awarded contracts will remain in full force and effect with the existing NOIS2 vendors until contract end. Under NOIS2, NASA is effectively acting as a Centre of Excellence facilitating contracts with departments across the US Government. Freelancer, a consistent bidder in these task orders, looks forward to pushing forward as a NOIS2 participant with this new budget. To date Freelancer has won task orders worth AUD 2.7 million of the original USD 24.9 million in funding, of which Freelancer estimates approximately US$12 million remains to be awarded. To date, Freelancer has won task orders with NASA, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Commerce, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and US Bureau of Reclamation. The task orders to date span the fields of electrical & power engineering, data science, network science, computational fluid dynamics, software development, information security, machine learning and UI/UX design. At the same time, Freelancer has won a new task order with NASA's Langley Research Center (LaRC) Structural and Thermal System Branch under NOIS2. The new task order, called the Spacecraft Shock Propagation Prediction Challenge, is worth USD 100,000 and aims to develop novel, discipline-advancing techniques to predict shock propagation. The ultimate goal of this project is to give NASA the ability to accurately account for shock when selecting components in spacecraft designs. This task order, being taken under partnership with LMI, a government-focused consultancy with over 60 years of experience in delivering computational science solutions, continues an ever-growing list of task orders Freelancer has won in the NOIS2 program, and that trend is expected to continue with the expansion of the NOIS2 program's budget.
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