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Susan Hendrix 
Susan.M.Hendrix.1@gsfc.nasa.gov 
Phone: (301) 286-7745
Dec. 15, 2000

Release No: 00-149

NASA SELECTS CORTEZ III SERVICE CORPORATION FOR LOGISTICS CONTRACT

NASA has selected Cortez III Service Corporation of Albuquerque, N.M. for the award of a Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee, Award Term logistics contract. The new contract has a basic three-year period of performance. Seven additional one-year option periods are available for a contract total of 10 years.

Cortez III will provide program and business management, information systems, project logistics support, supply support operations, transportation, equipment management and administrative services at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Total contract value for the three-year basic period is $70,978,468. Contract value for all seven optional periods totals $186,475,199. The portion allotted to the Wallops Institutional Consolidated Contract (WICC) option amounts to $930,699.