Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: parabolic flight services
Deadline: 02 Mar 2026
Posting Date: 30 Jan 2026
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 134730467
Document Ref. No.: 80AFRC26SS007
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is hereby soliciting information from potential sources for Parabolic Flight Services for the Flight Opportunities Program.
The Flight Opportunities program is conducting this market research to gather information from industry regarding capabilities to deliver reduced gravity environments, including microgravity, through parabolic flight that meet NASA's technical and operational requirements, enabling the testing of new technologies and conducting of research experiments.
Respondents are encouraged to submit capabilities statements with innovative approaches to delivering Parabolic Flight Services. This may include the use of aircraft platforms not traditionally used for parabolic fight services (e.g., business jets, experimental aircraft, supersonics, autonomous systems). NASA is interested in flexible, scalable, and novel operational concepts with the potential to help NASA expand access to reduced-gravity environments and accelerate space technology readiness.
NASA AFRC is seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including all socioeconomic categories of Small Businesses and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI) for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for parabolic flight services. The Government reserves the right to consider a Small, 8(a), Women-owned (WOSB), Service-Disabled Veteran (SD-VOSB), Economically Disadvantaged Women-owned Small Business (EDWOSB) or HUBZone business set-aside based on responses received.
Information Sought:
Programmatic Information: Please describe your business model and prior parabolic flight experience. Is your organization fully U.S owned and operated?
Aircraft: What aircraft brand(s) and model(s) does your organization have available to provide parabolic flight services?
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Notice ID: 80afrc26ss007
Department/Ind. Agency: national aeronautics and space administration
Sub-tier: national aeronautics and space administration
Office: nasa armstrong flight research cntr
Product Service Code: v121 - transportation/travel/relocation- transportation: air charter
NAICS Code: 481219 - Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation
Inactive Dates: mar 17, 2026
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
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