March 4, 2013

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa gov

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

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

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