NIH AWARDS I.S. CONTRACT TO SRA.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded SRA International, Inc. a contract to provide network engineering, software development, and user support services to help NIH increase system availability and efficiency of a network that supports 30,000 users across the United States. The task order was awarded under the Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 2 (CIO-SP2) contract. This one- year contract, with nine additional option years available, has an estimated value of $68 million over ten years should all options be exercised.

SRA and its teammates have supported NIH with network services since 1997. Under this new contract, the SRA team will work with NIH's Center for Information Technology to maintain and enhance the reliability and availability of NIHnet, which provides the network infrastructure for scientific, administrative, and business applications accessed by users across NIH. Services provided by the SRA team will include network and systems engineering, operation and maintenance, software development, and network security. Team members include SAIC, CIBER, JIL Information Systems, People Processing Information, and Universal Hi-Tech Development.

"We are pleased to continue our long-term working relationship with NIH," said Kathleen Adams, SRA Vice President of Health Systems. "Our team understands the organization's critical mission and its reliance on dependable network connectivity. The comprehensive set of technical services we deliver will focus on customer satisfaction and sustaining and improving the reliability and availability of the network infrastructure."

SRA provides information technology services and solutions to business and government. The Company specializes in network integration and management, Internet systems development, systems and software engineering, information security, enterprise systems management, knowledge discovery, and e-mail management systems. SRA serves clients in health care, national defense, civil government, and financial services.