Unisys awarded $15.7M contract from state department for program support and systems support services

Business Wire, May 6, 1997

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1997--Unisys Corp. Tuesday announced that its Federal Systems Division has been awarded a $15.7 million contract for program and systems support services from the Department of State, Office of Foreign Missions (OFM) to support compliance with the 1982 Foreign Missions Act.

The single-award, five-year contract (one-year base period with four one-year options), will provide OFM with program support in the Diplomatic Motor Vehicle, Tax, Custom and Property/Travel programs, as well as systems support for the transition of legacy systems to a client/server relational database management system with state-of-the-art imaging technology.

OFM offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles will be able to take advantage of the services.

Unisys Federal Systems Division has been providing systems support to the State Department for over 10 years.

Unisys team members on the OFM contract are: Aspen Personnel Services, and Systems Engineering and Management Associates.

Unisys Federal Systems Division

Unisys Federal Systems Division has been successfully serving the federal market for more than four decades. The division has a large share of federal government IDIQ contracts and is a leading provider of systems integration and information technology solutions and services. Last year, for the second year in a row, the division won more than $1.5 billion in new contracts.

Some of those included the Department of Transportation, Information Technology Omnibus Procurement; Social Security Administration, IWS/LAN; Defense Information Systems Agency, DEIS II; National Institutes of Health, Image World, and Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners; and NASA SEWP II Networking Products and Workstations.

Awards in 1997 include SSA, Consolidated Local Area Network Maintenance; Department of Agriculture, ADP Support Services; General Services Administration, Virtual Data Center; and State of Virginia, Year 2000. Further information is available at: http://www.federal.unisys.com

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CONTACT: Unisys Corp.

Mark Root, 703/556-5345

Internet: rootm@federal.unisys.com