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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 77058 AC 713 483-5111

Rh Linda Matthews Copley Release No. 90-011

Hernandez Engineering Awarded Information Support Contract

NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, has awarded a contract to Hernandez Engineering, Inc., Houston, for technical information and public affairs support. The basic period of performance began Jan. 1, 1990.

The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for a basic year effort plus four l-year options. Estimated cost and fee for the basic year is valued at $7.7 million. If the options are exercised, the contract value will increase by $8.1 million for the first option, $8.5 million for the second option, $9.1 million for the third option and $9.7 million for the last option.

The effort involves approximately 205 employees, both at JSC and in other designated locations. The contract includes providing public affairs support services, correspondence and communications management, security support services, information resource management, documentation management, technical information support services and duplication, reproduction, microforms and distribution management.

The new contract was awarded under the 8(a) Small Business Administration program. The previous contractor, Omniplan, Inc., had provided these services to JSC since 1981 and is no longer under the 8(a) program.