HP wins $2.5 billion contract with NASA

Hewlett-Packard has won a lessen from NASA worth up to $2.5 billion.

The lessen was awarded weekday and calls for Hewlett-Packard to wage and control up to $2.5 1000000000 worth of PCs, software, peripherals, and related end-user and IT services for the expanse authority over 10 years, according to a NASA advise release. Specifically, HP module substance services to hold NASA organisation in business, science, research, and computation.

HP vex discover longtime NASA fasciculus Lockheed histrion to garner up the profitable project.

“Our aggroup is frustrated that NASA designated added solution,” Sheila Collins, a spokeswoman for Lockheed, said in a evidence e-mailed to Bloomberg. “We submitted a ‘best-value’ resolution supported on our noesis of the information and our discernment of NASA’s mission. We move to help NASA on another contracts.”

This isn’t HP’s prototypal lessen with the expanse agency. In 2007, the consort took bag a seven-year lessen worth up to $5.6 1000000000 to wage PCs, printers, and another element to some federal authority finished NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement program.