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8/24/70
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The NASA Manned Spacecraft Center today announced plans to restructure
and consolidate a number of its Support Service contracts_ reducing the
number of such contracts from 28 to 17.
MSC Associate Director Frank A. Bogart said the plan will cover
a five year period, with all consolidations and recompetitions to be
completed in about 2 years.
Consideration will be given to current contract periods, program
impacts and budget cycles_ he said; and five support services contracts
will be set aside for competition among small businesses.
General Bogart said MSC should realize benefits in terms of better
utilization of personnel and reduced overhead through the consolidation
and restructuring of support contracts.
Current contracts for photographic sciences, the photographic
laboratory operation and the making of precision slides for the Mission
Control Center will be consolidated into a single photographic support
contract.
Contracts for facility support, public affairs support, and logistical
and technical information support will be combined into a single institutional
support contract.
A consolidated electronic and computation services contract will
replace present contracts for general electronic and instrumentation
support; computer prograznmin_ operation and maintenance; and hybrid
computer maintenance.
Presant contracts for Mission Control Center engineering and
operational support; Skylab flight crew procedures development, simulator
maintenance and operation and communications command and telemetry system
support will be consolidated into a new flight support contract.
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