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AVAYA AWARDED MULTI $MILLION PURCHASE AGREEMENT BY TREASURY.


Avaya a global provider of voice and data networks to businesses and government, has announced that it has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to provide voice and data solutions to the agency and its bureaus. The award was issued without a value cap and covers a 4 3/4-year term.

Called the Treasury Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications.  Solutions Blanket Purchase Agreement, it is national in scope and is open to all bureaus of the U.S. Treasury-including the Internal Revenue Service, Alcohol Tobacco Firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants.

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The award replaces and enhances a previous Avaya contract with the Treasury, which was limited to telephone switches and cabling for the Eastern corridor. Through this previous contract and other government buying agreements, Treasury has purchased more than 150 Avaya voice switches and has implemented one of the largest voice messaging Using voice mail as an alternative to electronic mail, in which voice messages are intentionally recorded, not because the recipient was not available.  networks in the world.

"Communication is critical to the Treasury and its bureaus -- from the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws.  communicating with taxpayers to the ATF and Customs communicating with remote agents and sites," said Greg Jewell, Treasury team leader for the agreement. "We look forward to working with Avaya through this new purchasing agreement to develop solutions that help each of our bureaus excel."

Avaya products and services available through the Treasury purchase agreement include the full range of the company's communications systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole.  and equipment, including:

-- Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) Solutions that will allow Treasury and its Bureaus to manage work flow and to interact with constituents via the Web, telephone, fax, e-mail or mail.

-- Unified Communication Solutions that will allow personnel to access e-mail, voice mail and faxes through a common interface on a computer or telephone.

-- Converged Voice and Data Networks that will allow the agency to reduce its costs by using a common infrastructure for voice and data transmissions.

-- MultiService Networking Infrastructure products and cabling to support the simultaneous, real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example.  transmission of voice, data and video via multiple transmission protocols.

"We're delighted to be able to offer the Treasury and its bureaus a convenient way to buy the breadth of Avaya's product line," said Bob Fortna, president of Avaya's D.C.-based Government Solutions business. "With this new award we can offer a much broader set of solutions, ensuring immediate, reliable and secure communication-to and from anywhere-and over any medium."
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Date:Mar 11, 2002
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