NASA plans to spend $4.2 billion on IT

NASA is going on an IT spending spree. The space agency is preparing to spend large sums of money on an acquisition program that includes five projects to consolidate its IT and data services. Federal Computer Week reported that the total estimated value for the five contracts, based on NASA's draft RFPs, is $4.28 billion, according to Stephanie Sullivan, an analyst for federal opportunities with INPUT, a market research firm.

The five proposals that NASA plans to put out for bid are:

* A contract for program management, support for personal computers, cell phones and personal digital assistants. The agency says that the RFP could be issued as early as Oct. 2 and could be worth $2.5 billion over 10 years.

* A contract enterprise application services. The agency says the RFP could be issued as early as Sept. 22, and could be worth $100 million over five years.

* A contract for data center operations, facility management, storage and hosting services. The agency says this RFP could be issued as early as Sept. 22 and the contract could be worth $1.5 billion over five years.

* A contract for wide-area network services, local area network services, telecommunications services, video services, and data services. The RFP could be issued as early as Sept. 22, and the contract could be worth $100 million over 10 years.

* A contract for website hosting, web content management, messaging and calendar services. The RFP could be released as early as Oct. 2, and could be worth $80 million over five years.

For more on NASA's IT needs:
- see this Federal Computer Week article

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