The US Army has awarded a 10-year contract worth up to
$2bn to General Dynamics to provide IT products to the US
government.
The contract creates a catalogue of IT products from a variety
of suppliers with prices negotiated by the defence technology
company and the Army. The product list and prices will be updated
throughout the life of the contract.
The products include both conventional IT products as well as
"rugged" products, adapted to withstand severe weather conditions
and to operate in difficult places, such as battlefields.
The most likely buyers of these products will be US Department
of Defense agencies, such as the Army, the Marine Corps and the Air
Force, but all other federal agencies are also eligible to purchase
from this catalogue.
The contract is called the Army's Common Hardware/Software III
(CHS-3) and includes a broad variety of IT products, such as PCs,
handheld devices, networking equipment, commercial software,
application development tools and printers.
Juan Carlos Perez writes for IDG News Service