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Handbook to Inform Major Fixed Price, Commercial, and COTS System Selection, Procurement, and Insight

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This handbook provides guidance to help inform decisions to choose fixed price, commercial, or Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) procurements of major systems as well as the implications for development and product delivery phases, whether the product is selected as the only solution to meet a specific need or as an approach to obtain the most reliable product given the constraints of the project. A major system is one at the spacecraft component level or above (e.g. star tracker, power supply, up through a full constellation of spacecraft). For guidance in selecting a standard or COTS product based on its history, refer to Goddard Procedural Requirement (GPR) 8705.4, Risk Classification and Risk-based SMA for GSFC Payloads and Systems and GPR 8730.5, Safety and Mission Assurance Acceptance of Inherited and Built-to-Print Products or contact the GSFC Standard Components Commodity Risk Assessment Engineer (CRAE) in Code 371.
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