NASA Awards Wackenhut Agency-Wide Protective Services Contract

June 24, 2009

Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1979


CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-030

NASA AWARDS WACKENHUT AGENCY-WIDE PROTECTIVE SERVICES CONTRACT

WASHINGTON -- NASA has announced the selection of Wackenhut Services
Inc. of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., to perform an agency-wide
consolidated contract for protective services. The initial contract
value for a possible 10-year period totals approximately $1.2
billion.

Wackenhut will provide fire services, security services, emergency
management, export control, protective services training, and
protective services information assurance and information technology
security.

The contract is a performance-based, indefinite delivery, indefinite
quantity contract enabling protective services to be provided to all
NASA installations under a single agency-wide contract. This
consolidated approach will promote coordinated and efficient
operations throughout NASA.

It is anticipated that 14 firm-fixed priced task orders will be
issued
under the contract. Each task order will authorize work to be
performed at NASA locations throughout the United States. The basic
period of performance will be for five years. The contract will
contain five one-year option periods. The contract also contains an
option to increase the maximum value by 20 percent, if needed.

The major subcontractor for the contract is Chenga Security and
Protective Services of Ashburn, Va.

This selection is pursuant to re-evaluation of the proposals and a
new
selection decision ordered by the U.S Court of Federal Claims
directing NASA to take corrective action relative to its initial
source selection decision. Pursuant to the court order, NASA
appointed a reconstructed source evaluation board, appointed a new
source selection official, issued reconsidered findings, and made a
new selection decision.

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