SACRAMENTO - The State of California plans to award statewide contracts for Unix-based servers that are projected to save taxpayers more than $4.5 million over the next three years, the Department of General Services announced today.
The three-year contracts, reached through the California Strategic Sourcing Initiative, offer discounts of 3 percent to 20 percent off the average prices previously paid by the State for comparable equipment.
"This represents the latest in a string of successes for strategic sourcing," said Fred Aguiar, Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency. "By modernizing the State's procurement system, we are getting better values for the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars."
The competitively bid contracts cover Unix-based enterprise-level servers. These are high-capacity computer servers used by large data-processing centers. In order to ensure that departments can select equipment that is compatible with their existing systems, the State is awarding contracts for servers manufactured by IBM, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. Both manufacturers and resellers were allowed to bid.
The winning bidder for Sun-manufactured servers was West Sacramento-based GovStor, a certified California small business. The contract has an estimated value of more than $15 million.
