Judging from public presentations made by some of the bidders, they expect an award sometime in May. Ten companies have lined up for the contract, including traditional telecom companies AT&T, BT, CenturyLink, Frontier Communications and Verizon, and less traditional providers Core Technologies, Hughes, Level 3 Communications, MetTel and Windstream.
Amando Gavino, director of GSA’s Office of Network Services Programs, told FCW the EIS contract is designed to be a total solutions vehicle that embraces “the full array of enterprise infrastructure services and capabilities necessary for an agency to fulfill its overall telecom requirements.”