Allard Beutel<br />Headquarters, Washington Nov. 5, 2003<br />(Phone: 202/358-4769)<br /><br /><br />James Hartsfield<br />Johnson Space Center, Houston<br />(Phone: 281/483-5111)<br /><br /><br />RELEASE: c03-rr<br /><br /><br />NASA AWARDS SPACE STATION MISSION INTEGRATION CONTRACT<br /><br /><br /> NASA has awarded a contract with a potential value of <br />$145.1 million for support of International Space Station <br />mission integration services to Barrios Technology, Inc. of <br />Houston.<br /><br /><br />The International Space Station Mission Integration Contract <br />is among contracts being awarded as part of a restructuring of <br />Station contracts seeking to consolidate work, increase <br />efficiency, increase accountability, and transition the <br />program's contract strategy from development and construction <br />of hardware to orbital operations.<br /><br /><br />Work under the contract will provide products and services <br />that support mission planning, mission integration, mission <br />operations, international partner integration, and Russian <br />language and logistics services. <br /><br /><br />The basic period of the cost-plus-award-fee contract is four <br />years and nine months, with an estimated value of $99.9 <br />million. Two one-year extension options to the basic period <br />are available and would bring the total contract value to <br />$145.1 million. <br /><br /><br />Tech Trans International, Inc., of Houston will be a major <br />subcontractor. Work on the contract will be performed at <br />NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA's Kennedy Space <br />Center in Florida and its immediate surrounding areas, and <br />other locations inside and outside the United States. <br /><br /><br />More information about the Space Station contract strategy, <br />including a complete background and history, is available on <br />the Internet at:<br /><br /><br />http://jsc-web-pub.jsc.nasa.gov/bd01/ISS/Default.asp