NASA Awards Safety and Mission Support Services Contract
NASA has selected Safety and Quality Assurance Alliance of Cleveland to provide safety and mission assurance services at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
The contract, to be administered through NASA's Office of Safety and MissionAssurance at NASA Headquarters
in Washington, is valued at approximately $33 million. Safety and
Quality Assurance Alliance is a joint venture with N&R Engineering
and Mainthia Technologies Inc., both of Cleveland.
The
cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract will take effect June
25. The base contract lasts 23 months and has three one-year options.
The
contractor will support all of the programs and activities necessary to
provide a safe environment for Langley's workforce. Safety and mission assurance support services will cover aeronautical and
spaceflight projects, as well as quality assurance activities
associated with the design, fabrication, assembly, test, delivery of
spaceflight-quality hardware, and material testing functions within the
Materials and Quality Assurance Laboratory.
Additionally,
support services will provide inspection and quality assurance elements
administered through the Center Operations Directorate. These include a
variety of quality assurance support services to ensure
research facilities and institutional infrastructure are maintained in
accordance with standards of quality as specified by its contracts and
facility management programs.
The inspection and quality
assurance elements support the monitoring of numerous government
construction, maintenance and operation contracts, including all
activities of the Research Operations, Maintenance, Engineering
contract and all facility or research-related construction projects.
For more about NASA's Langley Research Center, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/langley
For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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