GTSI wins mobile, wireless pacts from USDA
- By Mary Mosquera
- Aug 11, 2005
GTSI Corp. of Chantilly, Va., has been awarded a pair of blanket purchase agreements worth $50 million from the Agriculture Department for mobile and wireless hardware and software to provide advanced networking capabilities for employees who work remotely.
The first contract provides rugged convertible tablet PCs meeting Agriculture's advanced communications requirements for field, state, regional and headquarters offices. The Panasonic Toughbook 18 MIL-STD-810F is designed to handle fieldwork in bad weather and provides integrated capabilities for wireless wide-area network and global positioning systems.
Under the second contract, GTSI will provide Agriculture wireless infrastructure technology and services in partnership with Cisco Systems Inc.
Each of the contracts, which were awarded July 25 and were off the GSA Schedule, are valued at $25 million and have a one-year duration with four option years.
GTSI is ranked
No. 19 on
Washington Technology's 2005
Top 100 list of federal prime contractors.
Mary Mosquera is a staff writer for Washington Technology's
sister publication, Government Computer News.
About the Author
Mary Mosquera is a reporter for Federal Computer Week.