The Procurement Pipeline: Moon Base Awards and CLPS 2.0
What contracts will lunar companies compete for between 2026 and 2035, and how large are they?
Chapter summary
On 30 June 2026 NASA awarded about $590–600 million for four Moon Base deliveries in late 2028: Astrobotic $297.9 million for two landings, Firefly $144.2 million and Intuitive Machines $148.3 million for one each.
Key takeaways
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A follow-on programme, reported as CLPS 2.0, is expected to fund larger landers on a monthly cadence with a pot of about $6 billion over ten years, and missions spread over fifteen.
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Alongside cargo, NASA buys lunar terrain vehicles (two builders at about $220 million each, May 2026), relay services (an Intuitive Machines contract with a ceiling of $4.82 billion to 2034) and, from 2026, power.
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Setcoin puts the contract pool open to Western lunar companies at $3.5–5 billion a year to 2030.
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