Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP): Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)

Amendment #1: The response date is extended and a new PDF file is added under Attachments called “2nd AFPP Email”, which is a copy of an NSPIRES email sent to SMD List Serv subscribers.

NASA is exploring partnerships with external organizations for the operations and data collection of Earth Science satellite missions to enable more impactful exploitation of NASA resources and to advance the commercial remote sensing industry. This Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP) invites proposals for innovative partnerships for the OCO-2 mission in the Earth Science Division (ESD). This AFPP envisions one or more partnerships for OCO-2 with clear benefits to the selected partner(s).

On or after the publication date of this SAM.gov special notice, the full, final text for this AFPP will be available for download from the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) at https://nspires.nasaprs.com by searching on the SAM notice ID (called a solicitation number on NSPIRES) or via the link provided below.

NASA may periodically update the NSPIRES landing page to add other documents such as questions and answers or to revise and amend this AFFP. To stay up to date, interested parties must visit NSPIRES regularly to ensure that they have the latest information available.

The attached PDF file entitled “1stEmail” is a copy of the text of an email NSPIRES sent to Science Mission Directorate (SMD) List Serv subscribers and includes other important dates not shown on this SAM.gov landing page.  After downloading and carefully reading the full text from NSPIRES, by email only address questions (or other comments) with a subject line to read “OCO-2 AFPP” to the listed point(s) of contact.