Performance Enhanced Real-time Ground Environment (PEREGRINE) Sentry

What they want

• Lead platform integrator for the SDA ground segment framework: bring in existing and new third-party application developer capabilities and manage the software ecosystem lifecycle
• Hybrid cloud and edge compute infrastructure, including contractor-furnished edge equipment at Operations Centers
• Modular open-systems architecture built on loosely-coupled microservices
• Common development environment / software factory with automated CI/CD, infrastructure as code and cloud cost controls
• Multi-level security, cross-domain solutions (CUI to SECRET), zero trust and continuous authorization to operate
• Enterprise data architecture (data lakehouse) and MLOps pipelines for AI/ML
• Developer portals, tools and a high-fidelity simulation environment to onboard third-party developers
• Model-based systems engineering, agile program management, and phased migration of legacy ground applications under a strict 'do no harm' approach, plus operations, maintenance and Tier 1/2/3 service desk

What to include when you submit

• Include business name and address, company representative and title, business size and type, and CAGE code (the notice also asks for a DUNS number)
• Include a statement on whether, as a prime, you can keep an active Top Secret clearance and a Top Secret facility clearance (including JWICS access) for the whole contract
• Describe teaming or joint venture plans and split the work between prime and partners
• Give relevant contract examples with contract number, size, place of performance and points of contact
• Appendix: similar services provided to Government or commercial customers in the past three years and whether the work can be done commercially
• Suggest best-fit CLIN structure and contract types, other suggestions, and any major performance, schedule or cost risks
• Clearly mark proprietary information and keep it segregated; you are responsible for confirming the email was received
• Questions go by email to the same address by 06 October 2026, 1700 ET; answers will be posted on SAM.gov

You must have

• Ability to obtain and keep active Secret and TS/SCI clearances, with enough cleared staff at contract start Sufficient staff must be cleared at the Secret and TS/SCI levels at contract start to
• Facility clearance able to receive (JWICS-enabled), process and store Secret and Top Secret material at the prime contractor's facility JWICs enabled network access), process, and store Secret and Top Secret material at the
• No set-aside is used; the anticipated NAICS 541715 has a 1,000-employee size standard

Current contractor

No contractor is named. The effort evolves the current PWSA ground segment and works with existing ground segment contractors, so incumbents exist but are not identified.

Not in the notice text

• Estimated value or budget is not stated.
• Evaluation criteria for any later solicitation are not given.
• Industry Day date, format and registration details will come in a later amendment or posting.
• Specific CLIN structure and milestone payment schedule are not defined.
• The notice asks for a DUNS number although SAM.gov now uses a Unique Entity ID; confirm what to provide.
• Final set-aside decision for the later contract is not stated (the notice shows no set-aside).