SAIC wins NASA IT services contract - Science Applications International Corp

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, Jan 26, 2004

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has announced a contract award of the Unified NASA Information Technology Services (UNITeS) contract, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, to provide information technology (IT) management service functions.

This cost-plus-award-fee contract is a follow-on contract to the current Program Information Systems Mission Services (PrISMS) contract. The total estimated cost-plus-award-fee contract value of the UNITeS core requirements is $823.6 million. The UNITeS indefinite-delivery/requirements maximum order limitation is $500,000 per year, or $2.5 million total. That brings the total contract value to $826.1 million, which includes the value of a three-year base period and two one-year options.

Under the terms of the contract, SAIC will perform information technology (IT) management service functions agency-wide with the principal place of performance being the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, Ala. Agency-wide services include support for the Integrated Financial Management Program (IFMP), wide area network, IT security, and NASA's digital television. MSFC services include IT systems and services support for programs and projects for which MSFC is responsible. SAIC will be drawing upon its expertise in the areas of federal telecommunications/network management, IT security, software development, IT infrastructure support and ERP implementations to support this contract.

"Together with an outstanding team of subcontractors, SAIC has incorporated the best capabilities throughout our corporation that are needed to support NASA and continue a successful long-standing relationship," said Mark Hughes, executive vice president and manager of SAIC's Information and Technology Systems Sector. "This contract win solidifies our growing business base in Huntsville, and positions SAIC well to expand our offerings within the civilian agencies."

The SAIC team consists of IBM Corporation, based in Bethesda, Md.; Honeywell Technology Solutions, based in Columbia, Md.; Cortez, based in Las Vegas, Nev.; Booz Allen Hamilton, based in McLean, Va.; Metters Industries, based in McLean, Va.; Alabama State University, based in Montgomery, Ala.; General Dynamics-Network Systems based in Needham, Mass.; and Morgan Research, New Millennium Technologies, AZ Technologies, B.G. Smith and Associates, InfoPro Corporation, Media Fusion, and Oakwood College, all based in Huntsville, Ala.

SAIC is the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics.