NASA Awards Rapid Response Space Works Contract

WASHINGTON -- Serving as a contracting agent for the Department of
Defense's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, NASA has
selected Millennium Engineering and Integration Co., of Arlington,
Va., to receive a contract for Rapid Response Space Works (RRSW).
This is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, cost-plus
fixed-fee single award contract that begins Wednesday. The contract
consists of a five-year period of performance.

Under the terms of the contract, the company will provide support for
the ORS Office within the Department of Defense. In partnership with
the DOD, NASA will play a role in planning, acquisition and
operations of ORS efforts.

Specifically, the company will design, develop, build, operate and
sustain the RRSW to enable rapid access to space for DOD. The RRSW
activities include mission coordination, design, development,
procurement, assembly, integration, test, on-orbit support, launch
support and ground system support.

NASA released a Request for Proposals to industry on Feb. 1, 2010, to
solicit two individual requirements, including this RRSW contract and
a Modular Space Vehicles (MSV) contract, which will be awarded at a
later date. The RRSW and MSV contracts share a maximum value of $500
million.

The work will be performed at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque,
N.M. The contract with Millennium Engineering and Integration Co.
includes a subcontract with Raytheon Co., of Tuscon, Ariz.

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Source: NASA