PAE Keeps NASA’s $277 Million Houston Space Center Contract

Amentum Services Inc. failed to show NASA conducted a flawed past performance evaluation before awarding PAE Applied Technologies LLC a $277 million contract for operation and maintenance services at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, the GAO said in a decision released Thursday.

NASA reasonably considered two operations and maintenance contracts Amentum performed for the U.S. Army Chemical Defense Training Facility that had “minor problems” despite Amentum’s claim they weren’t relevant, the Government Accountability Office said.

NASA didn’t violate solicitation terms, which said the agency would exclude contracts from consideration only if they involved “little or none” of the ...