NASA Announces Information Technology Contract Extension

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan. 31, 2011

Katherine Trinidad 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-3749 
katherine.trinidad@xxxxxxxx 

Angela Storey 
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 
256-544-0034 
angela.d.storey@xxxxxxxx 

CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-003

NASA ANNOUNCES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONTRACT EXTENSION

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA extended the Unified NASA Information 
Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications 
International Corp. of San Diego. 

The sole source contract extension provides agency-wide information 
services and integration support for the NASA Information Technology 
Service Network. The extension also supports the NASA Enterprise 
Applications Competency Center by providing system administration and 
mainframe operations administered by NASA's Marshall Space Flight 
Center in Huntsville, Ala. 

This extension begins Feb. 1 and includes an eight-month base period 
valued at approximately $36.4 million. The action extends the 
contract period of performance by a potential 14 months for the 
continuation of activities through March 31, 2012. 

If all options are exercised, the period of performance will end in 
March 2012 with a potential value of $62.7 million. The UNITeS 
contract began Jan. 1, 2004 and has a total value, including this 
extension, of approximately $1.4 billion. 

Marshall's responsibilities for information technology include 
managing software applications; web and computer server systems; 
audio-visual information; telecommunications; information technology 
procurement and security; documentation storage; protection hardware 
maintenance; encryption security systems; computer networking; and 
digital imaging. 

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