NASA Awards Engineering, Technology and Science Contract

Feb. 08, 2013

Rachel Kraft
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov

Dan Huot
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov


CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-009

NASA AWARDS ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE CONTRACT

WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma,
Tenn., for an engineering, technology and science contract at the
agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The cost-plus-award-fee services contract has a potential value of
$1.93 billion, including options. The contract begins May 1 with a
five-year base period followed by two two-year options and includes
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity task orders.

Work under the contract will support Johnson's Engineering Directorate
and Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate.
Services will include: engineering design and development; sustaining
engineering; engineering analysis and assessment, technology
development; test services; laboratory and facility operation and
maintenance; planetary mission research; physical science research;
and astromaterial curation. Contract services will be performed at
Johnson and facilities owned by Jacobs and major subcontractors. It
will be managed in Houston.

NASA programs and offices that will be supported by the contract
include the International Space Station, Orion, Advanced Exploration
Systems, the Chief Technologist and Commercial Crew and Cargo and
Mars Science Laboratory science research and operations.

Companies that will support Jacobs on this contract include Aerodyne
Industries of Oldsmar, Fla.; HX5 of Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; Hamilton
Sundstrand of Windsor Locks, Conn., and Barrios Technology, ERC Inc.,
GeoControl Systems Inc., Oceaneering Space Systems and MRI
Technologies, all of Houston.

For information about NASA and other agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov


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