Unisys to Provide Managed Services Supporting Minneapolis 911 Emergency System in $6.8 Million Engagement

May 31, 2006

City embraces outsourced management of infrastructure for newly acquired 911 computer-aided dispatch application

BLUE BELL, Pa., – The city of Minneapolis awarded Unisys Corp. (NYSE: UIS) a contract to provide managed services supporting the city’s 911 computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system, the company announced today. Unisys will provide support and management services for the server, desktop and network environment on which the system runs to help ensure that this critical system is continually available to city employees so that they can respond to citizens’ requests for emergency services. The five-year, fixed-price contract is valued at approximately $6.8 million.



Unisys teamed with city officials and with TriTech Software Systems, the city’s 911 CAD application supplier, to design a secure solution with the redundancy and reliability required to support real-time response and delivery of emergency services.



Agents employed by the city will continue to answer calls to 911 at the Minneapolis Emergency Communications Center. The Unisys service desk will be available to them and their supervisors 24x7x365.



Under the contract, Unisys will provide data center management and hosting; remote server monitoring and operations services; remote network and firewall management; procurement and implementation services; and data support services. Unisys also will provide the city with patch and security management, virus protection and network monitoring tools. Unisys Managed Services Centre in Blue Bell, Pa, will monitor the network.



“Minneapolis is a pioneer in outsourcing its non-core activities and using a managed services approach. They entertain the uncommon notion that the 911 mission-critical application and the accompanying services could be entrusted to a private sector partner to relieve them of oversight and management, allowing them to focus on answering and responding to 911 emergencies,” said Greg Baroni, president, Unisys Global Public Sector.



Unisys support of the 911 CAD system expands the scope of the management and support services that Unisys has provided for the City of Minneapolis’ IT infrastructure since the beginning of 2003.





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