MetTel Lands $54M VA Contract to Modernize Landlines

MetTel was awarded a potential $54 million contract from the U.S. Veterans Administration to modernize the agency’s landlines.

Utilizing POTS Transformation to Enhance VA Landlines

The digital transformation and communications company said Tuesday under the multi-year, single vendor contract, MetTel will leverage its multi-carrier POTS Transformation offering to enhance the agency’s 15,000 telephone landlines in 1,875 sites. The task order, awarded through the GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, will cover standard voice lines and specialty lines supporting elevators, fire and burglar alarms, emergency 911/call boxes, fax machines and modems. The work will involve transitioning circuit-switched phone signals to a networked, multi-path IP system.

Aside from enhancing VA voice connectivity, the POTS Transformation service utilizing the DataRemote “POTS in a Box” platform, will also provide detailed port-level analysis, continuous monitoring, multi-path failover and advanced reporting.

Remarks From MetTel’s Don Parente

“We provide connectivity via multiple paths from space-based broadband to LTE, supported by a network of data centers and points of presence across the U.S.,” said Don Parente, vice president of sales & solution architecture at MetTel Federal. “Given the variety of access pathways and robust infrastructure, MetTel can ensure reliability in communications – an attribute that is core to VA’s mission to support our military veterans.”

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