GRC NEWS RELEASE 00-013




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For Release: February 24, 2000



Pamelia Caswell
Media Relations Office
(216) 433-5795
p.caswell@grc.nasa.gov


<h3>NASA Glenn Awards $63.5 Million Contract for Plum Brook Station 
Operations</h3> 

The Plum Brook Operations Group, a joint venture of Diversitech, Inc., 
a Cincinnati, OH, small disadvantaged business, and Call Henry, Inc., 
a Cocoa, FL, small business, has been awarded a contract to provide 
operational services at the NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook 
Station in Sandusky, OH.



The performance-based contract provides for a base period of three 
years and, subject to overall contractor performance, up to seven 
one-year award term periods for a potential full contract life of 10 
years. The total contract value, including the one-year periods, is 
estimated to be $63.5 million.



The company will provide security, custodial, and facility and grounds 
maintenance services and will operate Plum Brook Station's unique 
aerospace testing facilities.



The contract consolidates two existing contracts for operations and 
test site support services and is expected to provide overall work 
efficiencies to NASA.



Plum Brook Station is a 6400-acre facility that operates several 
large-scale aerospace test facilities. Recent tests completed at Plum 
Brook Station includes a thermal control system for the International 
Space Station and the upper stage payload shroud for the European 
Space Agency's Ariane V spacecraft.




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