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Canada : Government of Canada Chooses Allstream for 7-Year Multi-Million Dollar Contract
Publish Date : 16-May-2015
Allstream, Canada’s largest all-business communications provider, is pleased to announce that The Government of Canada, through the work of Shared Services Canada (SSC), has selected the company as one of two suppliers for “GCNet WAN Services – Stream 1.” SSC’s GCNet WAN will provide IP data communications services to 43 federal government departments and agencies including the RCMP, National Defence, Canada Revenue Agency and Environment Canada.
“Allstream’s IP network is ready to handle the needs of customers with the most demanding network requirements,” said Allstream President Michael Strople. “We are well-known for our expertise, professionalism and commitment to Canadian business and our network security, advanced infrastructure and reliable network make us a logical choice.” We are especially pleased that the Government of Canada trusts us to handle even more of their data networking.
After a rigorous qualifying process that includes meeting current and future bandwidth, security and reliability requirements, Allstream was awarded the business earlier this year. The project was established to consolidate, modernize and streamline the Government’s existing 50 wide area networks into a single network service for data and Internet access.
Allstream was awarded an initial 1,000 circuits representing a little over 20 per cent of the total circuits covered by this project. Although not fully determined, the total value of the contract is expected to exceed $100M, will last through 2022, and could extend to 2025. Implementation planning and preparation is well underway and the first circuits will be deployed later this year.
