Pentagon awards $9.7 billion in contracts to Dell, Microsoft to provide software, stop license sprawl, and cut costs…
- Dell has won a Pentagon contract worth $9.7 billion
- The technology services company will act as a single procurement point
- The Pentagon, intelligence community, and Coast Guard will jointly procure software
The Pentagon is looking to cut costs and stop software license sprawl in its latest contracts with Dell and Microsoft.
A $9.69 billion contract has been awarded to Dell to act as a single procurement point for Microsoft licenses across the US Defense Department, the intelligence community and the Coast Guard. The contract will move the Pentagon and other military departments away from duplicative spending on Microsoft licensing.
Defense Department Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies said the contract would allow the Pentagon to save $422 million annually by consolidating “existing IT budgets from across the services and the agencies into a single efficient vehicle.”
Annual savings of $422 million
The contract awarded to Dell - known as the...
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