Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington             May 24, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

Jerry Berg
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256/544-0034)

RELEASE: c02-k

NASA AWARDS $100 MILLION CONTRACT TO CONTINUE 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT SERVICES

     NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., 
has elected to continue an existing contract with Computer 
Sciences Corporation (CSC), Falls Church, Va., to provide 
information technology services to Marshall and certain 
services to all other agency centers and facilities.

The contract-extension modification, valued at $100.6 
million, covers the period May 1, 2002, through April 30, 
2003. It continues services under a contract entitled 
"Program Information Systems Mission Services (PrISMS)," 
originally awarded to CSC in 1994. A full and open 
recompetition of the PrISMS effort will also be initiated 
during this period.

Work performed by CSC and its subcontractors under PrISMS 
includes support for NASA computer systems, applications 
software, telephone systems and audio-visual services. It 
also includes a range of services, including support of 
information management systems, the NASA Automated Data 
Processing Consolidation Center at Marshall, and the NASA 
Incident Response Center.

The extension of this contract brings PrISMS's total value to 
approximately $1 billion since it was first awarded in 1994.

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