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PC Mall Gov Awarded $100 Million GSA Global Supply Agreement.


CHANTILLY, Va. -- PC Mall Gov, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of PC Mall, Inc. (Nasdaq:MALL), announced today that it has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. ) to provide IT products through the 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.  Global Supply's Expanded Direct Delivery (EDD Noun 1. EdD - a doctor's degree in education
DEd, Doctor of Education

doctor's degree, doctorate - one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
) Program. The BPA provides PC Mall Gov, the opportunity to generate up to $100 million in sales over a three year period. This award will broaden GSA Global Supply's commercial product offerings by over 12,000 products such as desktops, notebooks, printers, accessories, memory, modems, monitors, scanners, and storage devices.

"The EDD Program is designed to take advantage of PC Mall Gov's strengths in exceptional service and high speed delivery of products at competitive prices," said Alan Bechara, President of PC Mall Gov. "Customers throughout can shop `the Mall' for whatever they need without leaving their desks."

The EDD Program encompasses all products on PC Mall Gov's GSA Schedule 70, and is designed to provide the GSA Global Supply's customers with a flexible one-stop-shop to meet the individual agency's requirements and budgets.

PC Mall Gov utilizes an efficient distribution center, shipping many orders the same day as order placement. PC Mall Gov also processes a significant volume of orders via the Internet, which fits within the GSA's strategic objectives, including real-time electronic commerce transactions via EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect.  for streamlining the procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases.  process and supply chain management.

About PC Mall Gov

PC Mall Gov, Inc., headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia Chantilly is an unincorporated community located in western Fairfax County and southeastern Loudoun County of Northern Virginia. Recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census designated place (CDP), the community population was 41,041 as of the 2000 census. , is a rapid response supplier of technology solutions for government and educational institutions. PC Mall Gov offers 125,000 different products from companies such as Compaq, Microsoft, Apple, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  and Hewlett-Packard. The company makes these products available to federal agencies, state and local governments and educational customers on a variety of contracts as well as through open market and procurement card purchases. PC Mall Gov, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

Notes:
In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
 of PC Mall, Inc.

This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements include the statements regarding the Company's expectations, hopes or intentions regarding the future, including but not limited to statements regarding PC Mall Gov's award of the GSA EDD contract, the potential sales under the contract, and the benefits provided by PC Mall Gov's service and product offerings. Forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those discussed in any such statement. There can be no assurance that the company will receive any sales or any specified amount of sales or profits from the GSA EDD contract. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: the BPA does not guarantee any sales; variations in government funding could cause sales under the BPA to be less than expected; availability of third party suppliers at reasonable prices; Factors that could cause actual results to differ are discussed under the heading "Risk Factors " and in other sections of the PC Mall Inc.'s public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange commission including its Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
 for the 2005 fiscal year. All forward-looking statements in this document are made as of the date hereof, based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
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