The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded three small businesses positions on a potential $5, 314, 335, 810 contract for information technology equipment.
Alliance Technology Group, Red River Computer and Valador will compete for orders to provide the VA desktops, laptops, servers, switches, routers, storage services and tablet computers over five years, according to a March 19 FedBizOpps post.
More than 50 bidders were interested in the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Commodities Enterprise Contract, Nextgov reports.
Bob Brewin writes the VA intends for the to function as a second contract vehicle for buying desktops and monitors as Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) holds a four-year contract to provide the VA up to 600, 000 computers.
Dell’s contract is scheduled to complete in April 2015 and the VA has also included Apple, Google Android and Windows tablet PCs in the CEC, according to Nextgov.
