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U.S. Government Finalizing Negotiations in Anti-Virus Software Selection

Jason Miller wites on GCN.com:

General Services Administration officials leading the enterprise software licensing program known as SmartBuy expect to have in place by the end of the month at least the first of five governmentwide deals with antivirus vendors.

Tom Kireilis, SmartBuy senior program manager, said yesterday that his office is evaluating proposals from five major vendors that serve the agencies.

GSA last fall announced on FedBizOpps.gov that they were negotiating with Computer Associates International Inc., McAfee Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., Sophos AntiVirus Inc. of Wakefield, Mass., Symantec Corp. and Trend Micro Inc. of Cupertino, Calif.

“There are about 22 publishers of antivirus software, and the government buys five main ones,” Kireilis said during a panel discussion at the FOSE trade show in Washington [...]

posted by Fergie @ 3/09/2006 09:18:00 AM