March 4, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@xxxxxxxx William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 william.p.jeffs@xxxxxxxx CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-015 NASA AWARDS HUMAN HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Wyle Laboratories Inc. of Houston to provide biomedical, medical and health services in support of all human spaceflight programs at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The contract begins May 1 and has a maximum potential value of $1.76 billion. This indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-award-fee task orders has a five-year base period and two option periods that could extend the contract through 2023. The new Human Health and Performance contract will support many NASA programs and offices including the International Space Station, Orion, Advanced Exploration Systems, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Human Research Program and Commercial Crew and Cargo programs. Services provided under this contract include fundamental and applied biomedical research; biotechnology development; operational space medicine; occupational health and medicine; and management of clinical, biomedical, space food and environmental laboratories. The contractor also will support behavioral sciences; human factors engineering; spacecraft environment monitoring and management; biomedical engineering; biomedical flight hardware requirements, design, fabrication, testing and operation; and payload and hardware integration with the International Space Station. Lockheed Martin Services Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., is a subcontractor. Services will be performed at Johnson and Wyle facilities. For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
