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Dell Unit Nabs $92M Coast Guard Contract for IT Support Services

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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

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Dell Inc. [DELL] has received a five-year, $92 million contract from the Coast Guard to provide enterprise-wide support services for the entire service, to include its eventual new headquarters at the St. Elizabeth site in Washington, D.C. The Standard Workstation and Communications Infrastructure Support Blanket Purchase Agreement contract is an expansion of work the company's Perot Systems Government Services business unit has been providing to the Coast Guard for the past decade. The Coast Guard will be the first agency…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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