Unisys Awarded $50 Million Contract To Integrate Local Area Networks For Year 2000 Census.

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1998--

Bureau of Census - earliest commercial computer customer - taps

Unisys again for new-generation technology and services for

millennium population count

Unisys Corp. Wednesday announced that it has received a $50 million contract from the United States Bureau of the Census to create the automation infrastructure for the Local Census Offices program, which creates an estimated 450 to 520 temporary, local field offices to support the year 2000 census.

Unisys will install hardware and software and provide integration and maintenance services for all local offices under the two-year contract.

The contract marks another milestone in the long-term relationship between Unisys and the Bureau of the Census. In 1951, the Bureau purchased the UNIVAC I -- the first large-scale commercial computer -- to tabulate the results of the 1952 census.

Now the Bureau is relying on Unisys to integrate a solution based on new-generation distributed systems technology and services to address the complex task of supporting the compiling and tracking of census data in the millennium year.

Using leased hardware and software, Unisys will integrate the systems and connect each local area network (LAN) to one of 12 Regional Census Centers, which manage the field operations. After the census is completed, Unisys will divest itself of the equipment. The first 130 field sites are expected to open in December 1998, and the remaining sites will be operational a year later.

"We started working with the Bureau of Census 47 years ago and have been working with them ever since," said Joseph Santamaria, vice president and general manager, Integrated Government Solutions, Unisys Federal Systems.

"We were chosen to support the Local Census Offices program because of our past performance in this long-term relationship, as well as our success in similar network integration work for the Social Security Administration's Intelligent Workstation/Local Area Network program."

The contract is a single-award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract which incorporates aggressive socioeconomic goals, as evidenced by an overall subcontracting goal of 57% for small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned firms.

The Unisys team includes small businesses Andrulis, CNSI, Presidio and Tri-Com. Comdisco, CompuCom and Entex are our other partners. Unisys Global Customer Services organization will provide the network and solution integration services.

About Unisys

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