President Barack Obama and the First Family are visiting NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Endeavour's launch was scrubbed for a technical issue; the earliest attempt will be Monday at 2:33 p.m. EDT. Courtesy of NASA

Palo Alto, Calif., USA - April 28, 2011

HP Enterprise Services has been chosen for a single-award firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract worth up to $2.5 billion over a four-year base period with two three-year option periods by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

HP will provide end-user desktop services and devices that will increase NASA’s efficiency and allow its employees to more easily collaborate in a secure computing environment.

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday, Apr. 29. Courtesy of NASA

As a part of NASA’s Agency Consolidated End-User Service (ACES) Program, HP will modernize NASA’s entire end-user infrastructure by delivering a full range of personal computing services and devices to more than 60,000 users.

The modernization is expected to deliver significant productivity gains and cost savings to NASA.

First Family Views Shuttle Atlantis. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia, left, Sasha, Mrs. Obama's mother Marian Robinson, astronaut Janet Kavandi and United Space Alliance project lead for thermal protection systems Terry White, walk under the landing gear of the space shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 29, 2011. Courtesy of NASA

“NASA personnel use IT to support NASA’s core business, scientific, research and computational activities,” said Michael Sweigart, procurement officer, Shared Services Center, NASA.
“HP will provide, manage, secure and maintain these essential IT services for the agency.”

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Under the ACES contract, HP will provide a variety of Computing Seat, Tier 2/3 Service Desk Support and Collaboration Services to more cost-effectively manage NASA’s end-user infrastructure at all NASA sites across the United States.

Computing seat and cellular seat services are designed with security and collaboration capabilities to help the NASA team safely share information.

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“The ACES contract will help evolve NASA’s IT environment to a centralized, adaptable IT infrastructure to enable economies of scale, agency-wide visibility and improved management and security,” said Dennis Stolkey, senior vice president and general manager, U.S. Public Sector, HP Enterprise Services.
“HP will build on our deep industry, infrastructure and end-user services expertise to support this significant work for the agency that is pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.”

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HP will be teaming with numerous small businesses to meet NASA’s small business participation guidelines and diverse mission needs.

The contract will be managed at the NASA Shared Services Center in Stennis, Miss., and will serve all NASA centers and facilities.


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