Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington, DC	July 9, 1996
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

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


RELEASE: C96-h

QSS GROUP SELECTED FOR NASA COMPUTER CONTRACT 

The QSS Group, College Park, MD, has been selected for a 5-year, $53 million center-wide contract to 
provide business, administrative, and technical computing support services to the Information Technology 
and Services Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 

This cost-plus-award-fee contract will provide support to the Desktop and Distributed Systems Branch, and 
Business Computing Support Branch. The support required under this contract will include: management 
and administration; network systems and services; microcomputer hardware maintenance; systems 
development integration and sustaining engineering; host computing operations; security; quality assurance; 
and the scientific and engineering workstation procurement business and operations workstation laboratory.

The contract period of performance is scheduled to begin Aug.1, 1996. The basic contract award is for one 
year with following options: two one- year options and one two-year option.

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