January 15, 1997

Brian Welch
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

Linda Copley
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

Release: C97-a

Krug Life Sciences, Inc. Awarded $82 Million Medical Support and Integration Contract at Johnson Space Center

The Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, TX, has selected Krug Life Sciences, Inc., of Houston for award of JSC’s Medical Support and Integration Contract (MSIC). The subcontractor performing the contract with Krug is Enterprise Advisory Services, Inc., Houston.

The total awarded cost and fee of the five-year contract effort is approximately $82 million. The five-year effort is divided into a three-year base period and one two-year option period. Krug held the previous contract.

Other proposals for the MSIC were submitted by Systems Research Laboratories, Inc., Dayton, OH, and Kelsey Seybold Medical Group, P.A., Houston, TX.

Services provided under the MSIC include: medical operations and program planning supporting flight crew health care, flight vehicle crew compartment and environmental monitoring, and life sciences space flight investigations; medical sample acquisition and analysis; laboratory maintenance and operations for the JSC biomedical laboratories; and medical operations and medical research flight equipment requirements development and integration for flight projects.

The majority of the work will be performed at JSC, with the remaining work completed at the contractor’s facilities, remote locations at the U.S. launch and landing sites, and associated sites in Russia.

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