L-3 Awarded Role on General Services Administration's Alliant Contract
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2007--L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that it has been selected as one of 29 companies to compete for projects under the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) "Alliant" government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC), which has a ceiling value of $50 billion. Alliant will be available for all federal agencies to obtain IT services, products and solutions for the next ten years.
Through the GSA's Alliant program, a new multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract that has a five-year base and five one-year options, L-3 will provide a variety of Information Technology (IT) services to both civilian and defense agencies. Included among the services are infrastructure development, application services and IT management in support of federal agencies' integrated IT solutions requirements.
"We're pleased that GSA selected L-3 for the Alliant contract and we're proud of our well-coordinated team - one that will bring a multitude of skills to the table every day for our customers," said Les Rose, President of L-3's Enterprise IT Solutions. "I know L-3 will serve Alliant customers well."
"Many L-3 divisions combined their efforts and extensive expertise in IT services to address the broad range of requirements that GSA detailed in the Alliant RFP," continued General (Retired) Carl E. Vuono, President and Chief Operating Officer of L-3 Services Group. "I'm confident our team will deliver solutions and services that far exceed expectations. With our Enterprise IT Solutions' GWAC Management Center centrally coordinating all efforts, Alliant customers will find their task orders simple and straightforward to fulfill. Our accomplished staff and time-tested processes will help customers acquire and implement exactly what they need quickly and easily, and swiftly move on to achieve their mission critical goals."
Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications employs over 63,000 people worldwide and is a prime system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems and government services. L-3 is also a leading provider of high technology products, systems and subsystems. The company reported 2006 sales of $12.5 billion.
To learn more about L-3, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com.
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