SAIC Awarded IT Services Contract to Support Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
May 21 2007 - 1:38PM
PR Newswire (US)
SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Science
Applications International Corporation [NYSE: SAI] announced today
that it won a recompete contract to continue to provide information
technology (IT) outsourcing services to Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company. SAIC has provided these services since 2002. The single
award, five-year fixed-unit-price contract is valued at $35
million. The contract contains two one-year options for recurring
services for an estimated value of $14 million. If all options are
exercised, the total value of the contract could reach $49 million.
"Alyeska has had a productive business relationship with SAIC over
the past five years. At the termination of the original contract,
SAIC participated in a recompete for Alyeska's future services
contract," said Erv Barnes, chief information officer for Alyeska.
"They were challenged to provide even better service and support
with cost efficiencies. This competitive process resulted in
Alyeska and SAIC entering into a new contract for the next five
years." Under the terms of the agreement, SAIC will provide IT
services including local and wide area network support, security,
application maintenance and enhancement, and cross functional
services. SAIC also will support approximately 1,800 desktops and
approximately 100 servers and multiple storage area networks. "SAIC
is pleased to continue our long-term commitment to Alyeska to
deliver high-quality IT outsourcing and technical services," said
Doug Charles, SAIC senior vice president and manager of the
Commercial Services Business Unit. "We have developed a strong
relationship over the last five years, and we look forward to
leveraging SAIC's upstream oil and gas industry knowledge and
capabilities to help drive further value to their business."
Services in Alaska will be performed in Anchorage, Fairbanks,
Valdez, and along the 800 miles of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. SAIC
is a leading provider of scientific, engineering, systems
integration and technical services and solutions to all branches of
the U.S. military, agencies of the Department of Defense, the
intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
and other U.S. Government civil agencies, as well as to customers
in selected commercial markets. With more than 44,000 employees in
over 150 cities worldwide, SAIC engineers and scientists solve
complex technical challenges requiring innovative solutions for
customers' mission-critical functions. SAIC had annual revenues of
$8.3 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2007. SAIC: FROM
SCIENCE TO SOLUTIONS(TM) Statements in this announcement other than
historical data and information constitute forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of
factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements
or industry results to be very different from the results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are
not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC's Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2007, and such other
filings that SAIC makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such
uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of
the date hereof. DATASOURCE: SAIC CONTACT: Ron Zollars, San Diego,
+1-858-826-7896, , or Melissa Koskovich, McLean, +1-703-676-6762, ,
both of SAIC Web site: http://www.saic.com/
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