Qwest nets Treasury Web-hosting contract

Qwest Communications International Inc., a Denver-based telecommunications company, announced July 23 that it won a five-year Web hosting services contract from the Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt.

The specific dollar value was not released, but Qwest characterized it as a multimillion-dollar contract. It was awarded under Qwest's "crossover" deal with the General Services Administration.

Crossover refers to GSA allowing companies who previously won Metropolitan Area Acquisition contracts for local telecommunications services to modify their works to provide long-haul and managed services under the FTS2001 long-distance contract.


Qwest will provide the bureau with a managed hosting solution for a PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning application, with monitoring and management of the client's equipment, operating system and applications.


Qwest will host the application at a secure, state-of-the-art Qwest CyberCenter in Northern Virginia, which is connected directly to the company's 190,000-mile global fiber network.