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WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Hp Enterprise Services of Virginia has been contracted by NASA to provide, manage, secure and maintain essential IT services for the agency.
The award is a firm fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity agreement. It has a four-year base period with two three-year options. The value of the contract is $2.5 billion, HP Enterprise said, and will be managed at the NASA Shared Services Center in Mississippi.
HP Enterprise said the Agency Consolidated End-user Services contract is to develop a long-term outsourcing arrangement with the commercial sector to provide and manage most of NASA's personal computing hardware, agency-standard software, mobile information technology services, peripherals and accessories, associated end-user services and supporting infrastructure.
NASA personnel use IT to support NASA's core business, scientific, research and computational activities.
Additional ACES contract details weren't disclosed.
The NASA Shared Services Center is a partnership involving the space agency, Computer Sciences Corp. and the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. The NSSC performs selected business activities for all 10 NASA centers.
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