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I_.,TIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION<br />

MANNEDSPACEC_l IImCE TERm{_/___>._m_,. FT_.,<br />

_Hous'to--'roxas<br />

483-5111 July 2, <strong>1970</strong><br />

MSC 70-78<br />

HOUSTON_ TEXAS--The _SAManned Spacecraft Center has awarded a<br />

contract to UNIVAC Division of Sperry Rand Corp., St. Paul_ Minn., for<br />

lease and maintenance of four UNIVAC 1108 computer systems.<br />

The fixed-price supply contract for an initial three-month period<br />

April 1 through June 307 1_)70 is valued at $600,000. The agreement<br />

contains options for two alditional one-year renewals_ which could bring<br />

the total value to $%283,345.<br />

The computers, locater in Building 12 at MSC, are used for management<br />

and administrative tasks, analysis of test data, mission support<br />

and trajectory analysis, and scientific problem solving. Since 1966 the<br />

computers have been in use at the Center under a General Services Administration<br />

contractual agreement with Sperry Rand.

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