EDS gets approval from U.S. General Services Administration to begin accepting task orders for eTravel Services: Fedtraveler.com provides government agencies a proven solution for their travel needs.EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. has announced that its federal government eTravel Service, FedTraveler.com, has received Full Operational Capability from the U.S. General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. (GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. ). The GSA decision allows EDS to begin immediately signing task orders to provide travel services to federal government agencies. EDS was one of three companies selected by the GSA to provide the government-wide travel management system. EDS' FedTraveler.com, is a proven, end-to-end end-to-end a pattern of anastomosis in which severed ends are matched and united, in contrast with other patterns such as end-to-side or side-to-side. Usually applied to anastomosis of the intestine. travel service solution designed and built from the ground up for federal travelers. "EDS has relationships with more than 300 transportation industry clients in more than 50 countries," said Al Edmonds Edmonds, city (1990 pop. 30,744), Snohomish co., NW Wash., a residential suburb of Seattle, on Puget Sound; inc. 1890. There is boatbuilding and the manufacture of lighting equipment, machinery, and laboratory apparatus. , vice president, Global Sales and Client Solutions - U. S. Government. "Being able to offer a proven solution backed by such considerable travel experience greatly reduces the anxiety level for customers transitioning to this new travel management program." FedTraveler.com provides Web-based, one-stop shopping for integrated, end-to-end online travel approval, procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. , and expense management in compliance with federal travel policies, procedures and security requirements. FedTraveler.com also provides access to weather reports, maps, ATM locations, airport parking, exchange rates, restaurant information and passport passport Document issued by a national government identifying a traveler as a citizen with a right to protection while abroad and a right to return to the country of citizenship. It is normally a small booklet containing a description and photograph of the bearer. services. "For several months, the three contractor teams have been demonstrating their solutions to government agencies," said FedTraveler.com program manager Soo Morehouse. "The advantage of our solution is that it's a proven eTravel Service and we have built in a unique set of tools that includes fraud detection and other travel-related financial functionality at no additional cost." The goal of the GSA eTravel Service is to deliver an easy-to-use, integrated travel service tool to the desktops of government customers, simplifying federal travel management, and at a substantially lower cost to the taxpayer. |
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