Avaya gets Treasury purchase agreement

Avaya Inc. announced March 6 it has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Treasury Department to provide voice and data solutions to the agency and its bureaus.

The award was issued without a value cap, though the company characterized it as a multimillion dollar agreement, and will run for almost five years.

The national award is called the Treasury Telecommunications Solutions Blanket Purchase Agreement, and is open to all Treasury bureaus, including the Internal Revenue Service, Customs Service, Secret Service, U.S. Mint and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

The award replaces a previous contract held by Avaya of Basking Ridge, N.J., which was limited to telephone switches and cabling for the Eastern corridor.

Among the products and services now available through this purchase agreement are the full range of the company's communications systems and equipment, including customer relationship management solutions, unified communication solutions, converged voice and data networks and multiservice networking infrastructure products and cabling.

"Communication is critical to the Treasury and its bureaus, from the IRS communicating with taxpayers to the ATF and Customs communicating with remote agents and sites," said Greg Jewell, Treasury team leader for the agreement.