RELEASE NO: 98-180

NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER SELECTS RMS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC. TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

NASA has selected RMS Information Systems Inc. of Vienna, Va. to provide information technology services to the Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.) under the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN). This is the first delivery order to be issued by NASA under the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative. Under the ODIN delivery-order process, each NASA center will place orders exclusively with one vendor.

The services to be provided to Goddard under this delivery order are comprehensive desktop computer, server, and intra-center communications services to NASA Goddard employees and its contractors.

The period of performance for this delivery order is three years beginning on Nov. 2, 1998 for a total price of $19.6 million.

More information on ODIN can be found at the following web site: http://outsource.gsfc.nasa.gov

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