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The Abacus Technology Corp.'s cost-plus-award-fee contract commences Oct. 1, with a five-year base period and four one-year options to extend performance. If all options are exercised and the maximum amount of work is ordered, officials said the potential value of the contract would be approximately $898 million.

Abacus will furnish resources, including management, personnel, equipment and supplies to support Kennedy's work, including voice communications, visual imaging and timing, transmission and cable systems, administrative phones, institutional computer networks, network IT security, publications, library and computer services, NASA said, with some services also provided to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Patrick Air Force Base.

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