Telecommunications Fts 2000 Cost Comparison

Abstract

FTS 2000 provides intercity telecommunications to almost 1.7 million federal government users nationwide. The program provides five principal services: switched voice, switched data, dedicated transmission, packet switched, and video transmission. When the program began in 1988, GSA awarded two 10-year contracts, one to AT and T (Network A) and one to Sprint (Network B). As permitted by the contracts, in 1992 and 1995, GSA conducted price redetermination/service reallocation competitions, where each vendor could bid for a share of the others FTS 2000 traffic. As a result of the 1995 recompetition, AT and Ts revenue allocation increased from 60 to76 percent, while Sprints dropped from 40 to 24 percent. New prices resulting from the 1995 recompetition took effect in December 1995.Current contracts expire in 1998.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1996
Accession Number
AD1103084

Entities

People

  • Jack Jr L. Brock

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Communication Systems
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Digital Communications
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • Postal Service
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Computer Networking
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.