Nasa has selected Vantage Partners to provide engineering and scientific services to the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, US.

The five-year contract, worth $240m, is to provide support for aeronautics and space exploration work assigned to the centre by Nasa and will include delivering engineering products ranging from initial concepts to complete flight systems.

The contract involves a cost-plus-fixed-fee base effort and a cost-plus-award-fee indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity effort.

Vantage Partners is a joint venture between Vantage Systems and Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies.