NASA chooses 8(a) company for $359M software & engineering contract
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Ross Wilkers
NASA awards a $359 million contract to an 8(a) small business for software operation and other broad engineering support services.
Mitchell Vantage Systems has won a potential five-year, $359 million to provide software products, engineering support and other related services to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The company will help the agency’s engineering and technology directorate operate software platforms and systems for data and coding to fulfill the Software Engineering Support III contract’s requirements.
Work under this new iteration of the SES program is slated to begin on April 1, NASA said Wednesday. Only 8(a) small businesses were eligible to bid for SES III.
ASRC Federal is the incumbent contractor and first won the work in 2015 at a $246 million ceiling value. That contract is slated to expire on March 31.
NASA’s engineering and technology directorate uses the contract to acquire support for flight software, ground software and science data systems that feed into the development of reusable, secure flight and ground architectures and frameworks.