NASA Awards Test Evaluation And Support Team Contract

HOUSTON, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA selected Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., to provide test evaluation and support services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M.

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The Test Evaluation and Support Team – or TEST – contract calls for a three-year base period with a potential value of $300 million, and two one-year options with a potential value of $200 million, bringing the total potential contract value to $500 million.

Examples of the type of work that Jacobs Technology will provide under the TEST contract include propulsion systems testing; propellants and aerospace fluids materials and components testing; remote hazardous testing; quality assurance; test and institutional safety and health; hypervelocity impact testing; flight hardware processing; technical services; training; facility maintenance; and communication systems and construction management.

The three-year base period of performance for the contract is scheduled to begin on May 1 and extend through April 30, 2014, with the two one-year options available in the following two years. The TEST contract is an award fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract.

Subcontractors include ERC Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., and GeoControl Systems Inc. and MEI Technologies Inc., both of Houston.

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