NASA Issues Up To $36 Million Facilities Maintenance Contract

NASA gave Pride Industries a contract worth up to $36 million for facilities maintenance.

The company, of Roseville, Calif., is to provide facilities support and maintenance operations at Dryden Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

The contract has a base period of two years with two additional two-year options and a potential value of approximately $36 million if all options are exercised.

The first two-year base period, valued at approximately $12 million, started April 1 and will extend through March 2009. Follow-on option periods, valued at approximately $12 million each, could extend the work through March 2013.

Pride Industries is a nonprofit corporation creating employment for people with disabilities. Some of the employees working on the Dryden contract will be people with severe disabilities.