Re: GTSI
DOD sends GTSI back to school
10/16/06
To meet the needs of 98 Defense Department dependents’ schools in Europe and the Middle East, GTSI Corp. will deliver and install more than 8,000 notebook, tablet and desktop computers over the next five years.
GTSI won three blanket purchase agreements, worth potentially $12.7 million, from the Defense Department Dependents Schools-Europe, which runs schools for children of military and defense employees stationed overseas.
In addition to the hardware and software, GTSI also will offer a range of services stateside to the Defense Educational Activity, including asset tagging and imaging.
GTSI partnered with Gateway Inc. and Prism Point Technologies to develop a service solution to meet the needs of students, faculty and executives. Gateway is supplying the laptops, tablets and desktops. GTSI also recently teamed with Gateway to provide its computing solutions to Air Force Academy cadets.
GTSI Corp.
provides information technology (IT) solutions primarily to federal government customers worldwide.
It provides various hardware solutions, such as workstations, desktops, laptops, notebooks, servers, facsimile products, and Internet and extranet products; peripherals, including disk drives, CD-ROM and DVD drives, printers, monitors, scanners, modems and related products; and networking products, such as local area networks, wide area networks, metropolitan area networks, and personal area networks.
GTSI also offers supplementary services, which include assisting customers in selecting, configuring, installing, and maintaining networks.
The company sells its products and services primarily to federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as to systems integrators, prime contractors, and other companies reselling information technology to various government agencies.
It has strategic relationships with Sun Microsystems, HP, Panasonic, Cisco Systems, Network Appliance, IBM, Dell, Gateway, Apple, APC, and SGI.
As of December 31, 2004, GTSI offered access to approximately 350,000 IT products from approximately 1,380 manufacturers.
The company, formerly known as Government Technology Services, Inc., was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.
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