Amdahl Strengthens Enterprise Computing Market Position With $70 Million Services Contract Win; U.S. Postal Service, One of the World's Largest Employers, Awards Five-Year IS Support Contract for Information Systems, Field Computing, Information Technology and Information Security Requirements.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 1996--Amdahl Corporation, the enterprise computing company, today announced a new, five-year $70 million contract win to provide technology support services over a five (5) year period for Information Systems of U.S. Postal Service. The contract was effective April 1, 1996 and is renewable annually through the year 2001.

The Operations Services group of Amdahl Customer Services will provide consulting services, management and support services for U.S. Postal Service Information Systems, Production Operations, in the areas of Field Computing, Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Security and other areas of support through a team of "best in class service providers." This team includes BDM International Inc., API Corporation and 3SI Corporation.

"Amdahl was selected for this contract on the basis of the unique solution which they proposed to meet the requirements of the organization. Amdahl understood what we needed and provided a winning solution," said Jim Healy, manager of Information Systems, Production Operations for U.S. Postal Service.

Amdahl will be the single point of contact in providing overall management for the team of service providers and for the total solution. The Amdahl Operations Services group will manage the contract, with BDM and API providing PC/NT, LAN and WAN expertise and 3SI providing VAX support.

"Amdahl put all of its combined resources together to be able to deliver this winning proposal for Postal Service," said Amdahl Client Executive, Barry Josephson. "This is truly a joint effort of all the Amdahl services organizations in providing a complete and comprehensive solution across the enterprise," said Amdahl Account Executive, Rob San Martin, Jr.

"Amdahl is very pleased to win this important contract and to continue our long standing relationship with Postal Service," said Johnny Batten, vice president for the Amdahl Operations Services group. "This is one of the best examples of how Amdahl is extending its superior reputation and expertise for mission critical support throughout the entire enterprise. We will continue to leverage the core competencies in our world class service organizations to provide our enterprise customers with industry leading service and support."

Amdahl is applying its mission critical expertise to the increasingly complex needs of the world's largest, IT intensive organizations. For over 25 years, Amdahl experts have helped customers implement, service and support their solutions. It has developed a world class service infrastructure to support customers' multi-vendor, multi-functional information systems needs across the enterprise.

Through the DMR Group, acquired in 1995, and the Amdahl Operations Services and other Customer Services groups, Amdahl has broadened its offerings to address the needs of the entire computing enterprise. Amdahl recently announced the acquisition of Trecom Business Systems. As a result, over half of Amdahl annual revenues and more than six thousand personnel will be dedicated to providing services that support its customer in all stages of their Information Technology life cycle.

About Amdahl

Amdahl Corporation (AMEX: AMH) is a worldwide supplier of large-scale System/390 compatible processors, UNIX systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software and a variety of educational and consulting services. Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use across all types of computing environments. -0-

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