Subject: [NEXTEL-1] NASA awards $2 billion in contracts

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:19:31 -0400

NASA awards $2 billion in contracts

 BY Randall Edwards
 Oct. 10, 2003

 NASA awarded three information technology contracts Oct. 9,
 including two of the five work packages contained in the Space
 Mission Communications and Data Services solicitation, at an
 estimated total maximum value of nearly $2 billion.

 Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. won the Mission Operations
 and Mission Services (MOMS) and the Near Earth Networks
 Services (NENS) contracts. In the third deal, NASA's Ames
 Research Center awarded a contract to QSS Group Inc. to
 provide centerwide IT services, including computer and
 communications security.

 Honeywell's MOMS contract is the richest of the three, with a
 maximum estimated value of $900 million. The contract contains a
 five-year base period and two one-year options.

 Under the agreement, Honeywell will support the Goddard Space
 Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for all flight mission phases.
 Services under the contract include flight operations, mission
 services integration, mission communications and flight-dynamics technology.

 The five-year NENS contract is a two-part deal with a total estimated value of
$785.2 million.
 The core component is worth approximately $185.2 million and the
indefinite-delivery,
 indefinite-quantity component has a limit of $600 million. Honeywell will support
NASA's
 Space and Ground Networks managed by the Mission Services Program at Goddard. The

 vendor will provide technical and management services for tracking and data
acquisition
 operations at seven facilities.

 NASA's deal with QSS is valued at $281.5 million, and contains an initial
one-year period of
 performance with four one-year options. The Applied IT Division at Ames will
manage the
 contract.

 QSS will provide information services, including computing and communication
security and
 system software maintenance. The vendor will also maintain Ames' IT software
applications,
 along with data storage and network communications.

 The company also will disperse IT to customers through Ames' Web sites and data
systems.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/1006/web-nasa-10-10-03.asp

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