Veterans Affairs Awarded Nearly $500 Million To Dell For 600,000 New Computers

The Veterans Affairs Department has quietly awarded a nearly $500 million contract to Dell for 600,000 new computers. NextGov reports neither VA nor Dell made the typical press announcement of such a large deal. Instead, the VA put a notice in the FedBizOpps web site. The award follows a Dell contract from 2007 to lease a quarter million PCs. That deal, valued at $248 million, drew criticism from the VA's inspector general. The new contract runs for eight years. VA's first batch of new PCs will consist of 70,000 machines.