NASA extends launch vehicles contract

WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has awarded the Analex Corp. an option for the Expendable Launch Vehicles Integrated Support, or ELVIS, contract.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said its second three-year option period award is a hybrid performance-based, cost-plus-award-fee, fixed-price-award-fee, fixed-price indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract. It extends ELVIS through Sept. 30, 2011, and has a potential value of approximately $90 million.

Analex, a Fairfax, Va., corporation, currently is performing work under the contract's first option period that ends Sept. 30. NASA said the potential contract period, if all options are exercised, is nine years and three months, with a total approximate value of $258 million.

The contract provides integrated support services in the areas of business and administration, safety and mission assurance, engineering, and technical, facility and launch operations. Launch vehicles include the Atlas, Delta, Pegasus, Taurus and Falcon rockets.