Thursday, May 30, 2002
FHWA 21-02
Contact: Ron Zeitz
Tel: 202-366-0660
FHWA Awards 10-Year Performance-Based Contract For Information Technology Support Services
The
U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
today announced it has awarded a contract that will save the agency as much as
$2 million a year over 10 years in information technology support services.
“Finding innovative ways to contract for services is one of the ways FHWA uses to get the most for taxpayer dollars,” FHWA Administrator Mary E. Peters said. “Multi-year contracts that include periodic performance evaluation are among the most effective contract instruments we have at our disposal.”
The
10-year contract, divided into five two-year segments, is valued at $174
million. It was awarded to a
minority-owned, Vienna, VA-based firm called INDUS Corporation. The contract
contains requirements that the firm earn sustained superior contract performance
evaluations on each two-year segment in order to be considered for the next
segment.
Under
the contract, INDUS will supply enterprise architecture support, document
management support, video conferencing, data communications management,
applications software management and web support to the FHWA.
It also will supply help desk and LAN support, application/database
server support, mainframe support and information technology security to the
agency.
By
consolidating of all these information technology support services into one
contract with one vendor, the agency will realize considerable savings.
Instead of accountability spread over several suppliers, one firm will
have overall responsibility for providing these services, many of which are
interrelated.
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