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HP may have to fight for Navy contract

Criteria widen the competition

By Nick Taborek

 |  Bloomberg News  

  January 10, 2012

Hewlett-Packard Co. may have to fend off more bidders to keep its largest US government contract, a $1.5 billion-a-year deal to operate the Navy’s communications network. The Navy is widening the competition by reducing a key requirement on the Next Generation Enterprise Network, known as NGEN. Companies with experience operating a network with at least 40,000 computers will be allowed to bid, down from the initial minimum of 100,000, Steven A. Davis, a Navy spokesman, said in a Dec. 27 e-mail.

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