A news release today also announced the award of the Army's "ITES2"
(Information Technology Enterprise Services - 2) contract. Not much detail
in the news release, but, by extrapolation, sounds a lot like the 'most
common denominator' wins: not the worst, and not the best -- mediocrity -
but at its newest and finest.
~~
George Polich
Deputy Director
Army Public Affairs Center, HQDA
TEL: 301.677.7172
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On 17/04/2006 09:42, "Betsi Lynch" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Folks
> I've been in the Apple federal group for 15 years and saw this RFP.
> This, as with most others, say "Must run windows, out of the box" which
> meant at that time, adding Virtual PC which adds to the cost and added
> RAM. Low cost solution won here which is mostly Dell in a
> competitive situation. In the reseller/integrator community where they
> get to see all manufacturer's pricing for an RFP, Dell for the most part
> will be the lowest.
>
> Although our new boxes will support running windows, the purchase of a
> windows OS will still be necessary for us to be compliant with this
> solution which will also add to the cost.
>
> Bets
>
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Zinnato, Ronald NAVAIR wrote:
>
>
> The NMCI contract was not bid on by the hardware manufacturers. I don't
> know the specifics from the RFP, but I'm sure the RFP was written so
> that it didn't specifically SAY you had to use Windows, but was strongly
> implied. It was up to the winning bidder (EDS) to determine what
> hardware vendor to choose to fulfill the terms of the contract.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Out of curiosity, was Apple even given the chance to bid on the NMCI
> contract that Dell has ever-so-apparently won?
>
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