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Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington                   April 16, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1979)

Sally Harrington
Glenn Research Center, Cleveland
(Phone: 216/433-2037)

RELEASE: c03-m

NASA AWARDS MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT 
TO VIRGINIA SMALL BUSINESS

     NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, has selected RS 
Information Systems (RSIS), Inc., a small business in McLean, 
Va., for professional, administrative, computational, 
engineering and information-technology support services. The 
estimated value of the contract, including options, is 
approximately $61 million.

The contract, which begins on June 1, 2003, is a follow-on 
contract to an existing agreement for similar services. This 
is a cost plus fixed-fee, task order, performance-based 
contract. The contract period of performance is for a three-
year base period plus one two-year option, for a total of 
five years. 

Support of center-wide information technology requirements 
under this contract will include: business systems and 
applications, computational scientific services, advanced 
networking systems, technology development, facilities and 
emerging technology.

RSIS is a Small Business Administration 8(a) company and the 
recent winner of NASA's George M. Low Award.

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