Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington              Dec. 11, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

Bruce Buckingham
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)

RELEASE: c01-y

NASA AWARDS LIFE SCIENCE SERVICES CONTRACT

     NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., has awarded a cost-
plus-award-fee/performance-based contract to Dynamac Corp., 
Rockville, Md., to perform a variety of life science and 
personnel services at the center.

Under the contract, Dynamac will provide services that 
include medical planning operations for the Space Shuttle and 
International Space Station; environmental compliance and 
stewardship; life sciences payloads operations; agency 
occupational health services; biological sciences; life 
sciences payload development; workforce protection, fitness 
and musculoskeletal rehabilitation; and education outreach.

The contract features a three-year, nine-month basic period 
of performance beginning Jan. 1, 2002, with two options for a 
potential seven-year, nine-month contract term. The basic 
contract's estimated cost plus award-fee is more than $54 
million with a potential value that exceeds $119 million over 
the entire period, inclusive of both options.

The work will be performed at Kennedy and at NASA facilities 
located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Dynamac is 
the incumbent contractor currently performing this work under 
the Life Science Support Contract.

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