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Business/Financial

DHS Awards HP $1 Billion For Data Center Services, Plans Similar Contract With CSC

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

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DHS Awards HP $1 Billion For Data Center Services, Plans Similar Contract With CSC

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday awarded a potential $995.9 million contract to Hewlett Packard [HPQ] to continue providing services to its Data Center 2 while the department continues to work toward an Enterprise Computing Services (ECS) model of data center support.The department also said it shortly plans to award Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC] a potential $967.5 million contract to continue providing support to Data Center 1, which is government-owned and has been operated by CSC sine July 2008.…

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