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Ginnie Mae awards MicroTech $11.8M IT services contract

MicroTech was selected as a prime contractor to the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), or Ginnie Mae for their Hardware and Software Services Contract (HSSC).

HSSC is an $11.8 million contract providing user support in the following areas, but not limited to, purchasing, licensing, performing cost/benefit analysis, architecture design, enterprise tool development, integration, deployment, maintenance and upgrades, security, configuration, program and asset management needed to consolidate its data center and infrastructure operations.  The effort also includes providing telephone technical support for Ginnie Mae users on an as needed basis and providing general status updates on a monthly basis, says Microtech.

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