NASA Increases Value of Bioastronautics Contract

Jan. 30, 2013

Trent J. Perrotto
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov

William Jeffs
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov

CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-005

NASA INCREASES VALUE OF BIOASTRONAUTICS CONTRACT

HOUSTON -- NASA has increased the value of a contract with Wyle
Integrated Science and Engineering Group of Houston to provide
continuing support to the Human Health and Performance Directorate at
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The modification increases the not-to-exceed indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity value of the contract by $49 million, from $914.5
million to $963.5 million. This value is just a portion of the
contract. The overall value of the contract with this change is $1.2
billion. Wyle has held the cost-plus-award-fee contract since May 1,
2003. The contract ends April 30. A follow-on competition, known as
the Health and Human Performance Contract (HHPC), is under way.

Services provided under the current contract support the International
Space Station and Orion programs. Work includes medical services,
research, technology development, engineering, operations and flight
hardware development to support the health, safety and productivity
of crews living and working in space. Wyle maintains readiness of
facilities and laboratories and provides services for program
integration, habitability and environmental factors, human adaptation
and countermeasures, space medicine, flight hardware development and
human research.

Work under the contract is performed at Johnson and Ellington Field in
Houston, as well as NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces,
N.M.

Major subcontractors include Lockheed Martin Space Operations, Barrios
Technology Inc., Enterprise Advisory Services Inc., Bastion
Technologies and Muniz Engineering Inc., all in Houston, and Futron
Corporation in Bethesda, Md.

For more information about NASA and its programs, visit:

http://wwww.nasa.gov


-end-



To subscribe to the list, send a message to:
hqnews-subscribe@mediaservices.nasa.gov
To remove your address from the list, send a message to:
hqnews-unsubscribe@mediaservices.nasa.gov