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May 02, 2007

New Business

Unisys Corporation has received final approval for a four year extension of the Los Angeles Eligibility, Automated Determination, Evaluation and Reporting (LEADER) contract. The four-year extension is valued at an estimated $108 million. Each year of the four-year extension is partly firm-fixed-price and partly time and materials. The LEADER system provides an online, real-time method for determining eligibility and benefits for the Department of Public Social Services’ assistance programs, including CalWORKs (the state’s public assistance program), Medi-CAL (the state’s Medicaid program), Food Stamps and General Relief.

Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V., the largest Coca- Cola bottler in Latin America and second largest in the world, has signed a three-and-a-half year contract extension with EDS for information technology (IT) services that will help the company manage its growth. The agreement extends delivery of numerous IT services EDS has provided for Coca-Cola FEMSA since 2000 and integrates its new operations into the existing Coca-Cola FEMSA IT infrastructure.

Posted by jbowles at May 2, 2007 07:30 PM