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483-5111 MSC70-31
March 9, 1970
HOUSTON_ TEXAS--The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
has awarded a cost-plus-fixed fee contract to the General Electric Co.
for Spacecraft Checkout (ACE-S/C)_ Reliability and Quality Assurance
Engineering and Systems Engineering in support of NASA's Apollo and
Skylab programs. This contract definitizes a letter contract with
General
Electric.
The period of performance for this work will be from October 1969,
through December 1972. The value of the cost-plus-flxed-fee contract
is $57,264,989.
The contract provides for equipment and engineering required for
the continued use of Acceptance Checkout Equipment - Spacecraft (ACE-S/C)
stations, reliability and quality assurance engineering and other
engineering efforts required by the Apollo and Skylab Program Offices
of the NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center.
General Electric will be required to modify, program_ maintain_
and operate the ACE-S/C stations as required through December 1972.
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