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Dell Wins Contract Worth up to $100 Million from U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration; Agreement Includes Clients, Servers and Peripherals; Available DOT-Wide
Business Wire - September 20, 2005 11:00

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Sep 20, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for desktops, notebooks, servers, storage and peripheral products such as printers.

The one-year agreement, valued up to $20 million per year with four one-year renewal options, is available to contracting officers and IT purchasing agents throughout the Department of Transportation.

Over the past several years, the FAA has worked toward maintaining an efficient, reliable and standardized computer environment. Through the BPA process, the FAA has successfully driven configuration consistency, helped reduce maintenance and administrative costs, and maximized its buying power. With the newly awarded BPA, all of the Department of Transportation can begin to realize the same benefits.

The agreement is also designed to reduce the administration's total cost of IT ownership, create a standard method of purchasing IT equipment agency-wide, and create a method of reporting and measuring outcomes. It also includes asset recovery services for disposing of the systems at end-of-life in an environmentally sensitive way.

"The FAA's approach to IT procurement, particularly its focus on total cost of ownership, is a model for other agencies to reference," said Troy West, vice president of Dell Federal. "Acquisition cost represents a small portion of a computer's total cost, and it's important for agencies to factor in elements such as maintenance, systems management and asset recovery or recycling when purchasing their systems."

The agreement was awarded and will be managed by DOT's Enterprise Services Center in Oklahoma City.

About Dell

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