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483-5111 February 4, 1970
MSC 70-20
HOUSTON_ TEY_S--The NASA Manned Spacecraft Center announced a
one-year extension of its contract with the Zia Company of Las Cruces,
New Mexico_ for maintenance and operations support to NASA's White
Sands Test Facility_ Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The estimated _lue of the one year extension is $3,270,897 and
brings the total value of the contract since November 1966 to about
$17.9 million.
Under terms of the cost-plus-award-fee contract, the Zia Company
is responsible for maintenance, repair and operation of buildings_
equipment_ and systems; emergency fire protection; medical services
for employees; electrical and mechanical engineering support; altitude
simulation system support; administrative support of supply, warehousing_
transportation and heavy equipment operation; and minor construction and
alteration of facilities.
The contract extension extends the Zia Company's period of
performance through January 1971.
The White Sands Test Facility provides major support services
to NASA's M_nned Spacecraft Center, Houston, in testing Apollo spacecraft
propulsion systems_ components and materials.
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