Dave Steitz                                July 27, 2001
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone:  202/358-1730)

Ed Campion
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 
(Phone: 301/286-0697)

RELEASE: c01-n

NASA AWARDS SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING COMPUTING CONTRACT

     NASA has awarded a fixed price, indefinite delivery, 
indefinite quantity contract to 8 Maryland and Northern 
Virginia companies for the Scientific Engineering and 
Workstation Procurement (SEWP III).   The contract award has 
a minimum value of $60,000 and a maximum value of $4 
billion.  The SEWP III contract is a follow-on to the SEWP 
II contract, which expired July 15, 2001

The Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement 
(SEWP) supports NASA's requirements for high-performance 
information technology that will provides flexibility, 
functionality, high-speed connectivity and performance 
growth. This procurement makes available state-of-the-art 
commercial hardware and software products, improves 
compatibility between systems and maximizes flexibility 
through established government and industry standards. This 
objective will ensure a cost-effective growth path for the 
government by providing for competition in information-
technology acquisitions.

A list of the companies can be found online at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/contract/2001/c01-nlist.txt

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