NASA Awards Ground Equipment Contract for Kennedy Space Center

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected
contractors for a multiple award contract to provide fabrication of ground
support equipment for Constellation and other space programs at NASA's Kennedy
Space Center in Florida. The multiple award, indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity contract has a maximum value of $400 million during a
five-year ordering period, with potential for a one-year extension.

NASA awarded the electrical ground support equipment contract to Engravers
Metal Fabricators of Cocoa, Fla., Jackson & Tull of Seabrook, Md., Spectrum
Laser & Technologies Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo., and TJ Inc. of
Christmas, Fla.

The fluids ground support equipment contract was awarded to Hydraulics
International, Inc. of Chatsworth, Calif., Precision Fabricating & Cleaning
Co., Inc. of Cocoa, Fla., Sierra Lobo, Inc. of Milan, Ohio, and United
Paradyne Corp. of Santa Maria, Calif.

The mechanical ground support equipment contract was awarded to Coastal Steel,
Inc. of Cocoa, Fla., Engravers Metal Fabricators of Cocoa, Fla., Met-Con, Inc.
of Cocoa, Fla., Oregon Iron Works of Clackamas, Ore., Precision Fabricating &
Cleaning Co. Inc. of Cocoa, Fla., Rogers Associates Machine and Tool Corp. of
Rochester, N.Y., Samson Metal & Machine of Lakeland, Fla., and Specialty
Maintenance and Construction of Lakeland, Fla.

The contract covers all required management, labor, facilities, materials and
equipment to fabricate, mark, package, deliver, clean, assemble, precision
clean, and test equipment, ground systems and other hardware for Kennedy as
firm fixed price delivery orders.

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SOURCE NASA

Grey Hautaluoma of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-0668,
grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, or Allard Beutel of NASA Kennedy Space Center,
Fla., +1-321-867-2468, allard.beutel@nasa.gov