NASA Contract Modification for Support at Michoud Assembly Facility

Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington                                   

Angela Storey

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.

WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a one-year contract option with Jacobs Technology, Inc., of New Orleans to continue manufacturing support and facilities operations at the Michoud Assembly Facility in eastern New Orleans.

The one-year contract option begins on May 1, 2012. The performance based, cost- plus-award-fee, mission services contract with an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity portion has a potential mission services value of $37 million and a potential maximum order quantity value of $137 million, with the exercise of this first option period. The contract was originally awarded in May 2009.

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