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December 17, 2008

New Business

EDS, an HP company, has been awarded a $111 million contract by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide security readiness reviews for the Department of Defense (DoD). These readiness reviews will support DISA’s mission to provide integrated, agency-wide protection and operational restoration capability to counter security threats.

The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded Unisys a firm fixed price contract to provide maintenance and IT support for GSA.gov, one of the federal government’s most-visited websites, and for GSA’s internal portal, GSA InSite. The agreement, a recompete of a contract that Unisys has held since April 2003, was awarded under GSA’s IT Schedule, a procurement vehicle that assists federal agencies with IT purchasing. The contract consists of one base year and four one-year options, which are exercisable at the discretion of the government.

Perot Systems Corporation announced that the Daughters of Charity Health System (DCHS) has awarded the company a contract extension for IT services. Under terms of the agreement, Perot Systems will continue to provide full IT outsourcing services to include application implementation and support, desktop support, local and wide area network design and maintenance, data center management, server design and control, help desk and incident management.

BancTec, Inc., a global provider of advanced, high-volume document and payment processing solutions and services, has signed an agreement with Concentra Inc., one of the largest providers of health care services in the U.S., to manage the receipt and data capture of Concentra’s supplier invoices. The agreement covers invoices in both paper and electronic formats, and will provide Concentra colleagues and vendors with online visibility and improved workflow capabilities.

Adecco Group North America has been awarded a multiyear recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) contract with the Corporate Executive Board. Adecco's RPO division will provide the Corporate Executive Board with a comprehensive, full-lifecycle solution for recruitment of Corporate Executive Board sales executives for worldwide deployment.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization have awarded Unisys Corporation a task order to provide services supporting and maintaining a myriad of mission-critical Department of Defense applications at DISA’s Systems Management Center (SMC) in Ogden, Utah. The award, valued at approximately $15 million if all options are exercised, is a recompete of a contract for services Unisys has provided since 1992. The new agreement will run one base year followed by four one-year options, exercisable at the discretion of the government.

Posted by jbowles at December 17, 2008 07:38 PM