CLEVELAND — NASA has selected Vantage Partners LLC of Lanham, Md., to provide engineering and scientific services to the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

Under this contract, Vantage Partners LLC will perform a wide range of engineering, research and technology development, operations and project management services at Glenn. These services will support the aeronautics and space exploration work assigned to the center by the agency, and will include delivering engineering products ranging from initial concepts through complete flight systems.

This contract provides for a cost-plus-fixed-fee base effort and a cost-plus-award-fee indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity effort. The maximum value of the contract, including both work elements, is $240 million during a possible five-year performance period.

Vantage Partners LLC is a Small Business Administration 8(a) joint venture formed by Vantage Systems Inc., of Lanham Md., and Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. of Greenbelt, Md.

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