Granite
Earns Authority to Operate on $50B Government Contract
Prime contractor fully approved to supply critical
infrastructure solutions to federal agencies
QUINCY, Mass. – December 19,
2019 – Granite Telecommunications, LLC, a provider of communications solutions
to businesses and governmental agencies throughout North America, announced
today that it has received the Authority to Operate (ATO) under the General
Services Administration’s (GSA) $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions
(EIS) contract.
The EIS program, which is
administrated by the GSA, is the federal government’s contract vehicle for
procuring next-generation information technology, telecommunications, and
infrastructure services from select contractors for up to fifteen years. Granite
is one of nine prime contractors approved to provide services under the EIS contract. In parallel with its ATO activities, Granite
has actively expanded the scope of EIS products and services that it is
eligible to offer under EIS, and offers the largest portfolio of approved
services of any non-incumbent carrier (36 of 37 EIS services across the entire
geographic area approved by GSA for EIS).
ATO is the final requirement
in the GSA’s approval process before prime contractors are permitted to accept
and process task orders under the EIS contract vehicle. To achieve ATO, Granite
successfully completed extensive Business Support System testing to demonstrate
its readiness to manage business-critical operations for more than 140 federal
agencies and organizations. The ATO award is confirmation of Granite’s ability
to act as a contractor for its largest and most critical
organizations for next generation IT and telecommunications infrastructure.
“I’m very proud of the hard
work our team has put in to reach ATO,” said Granite CEO Rob Hale. “This
achievement is confirmation that Granite has met the U.S. government’s requirement
for cybersecurity standards to protect government information in our business
support systems and overall ability to operate as a contractor for the
country’s most visible information technology infrastructure contract. We’re excited
to get to work on task orders and start delivering bottom-line savings and enhanced
performance to federal agencies.”
“We
are thrilled to help federal agencies obtain best-in-class voice and data
infrastructure solutions,” added Tim Heaps, General Manager of Granite
Government Solutions. “Granite looks forward to helping agencies better
manage the services they have, while upgrading and enhancing performance and
delivering savings and efficiency across Granite’s platform of products and
services. This is an exciting time not just for Granite, but for the
agencies that we will serve for years to come.”
Granite has a distinguished
track record as a contractor in the public sector, having provided voice and
data services to many federal, state and governmental agencies. In 2011, Granite
was presented with the U.S. Postal Service’s prestigious “Supplier Excellence
Award” in recognition of its “outstanding contributions to the success of the
Postal Service.” Under the GSA’s EIS program, Granite hopes to provide even
greater cost savings and efficiencies to even larger segments of the U.S.
government’s various agencies and organizations.
About
Granite
Granite
delivers one-stop communications solutions to multilocation
businesses and government agencies throughout the United States and Canada. The
$1.5 billion company serves more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100 companies
in the United States, and has 1.75 million voice and data lines under
management. Granite launched in 2002 and grew quickly by helping businesses to
simplify sourcing and management of local and long distance phone services with
one point of contact and one invoice for all their office locations nationwide.
Today, Granite is the leader in aggregating Plain Old Telephone Services
(POTS), and has extended its unique value proposition – “one company, one contact, one
bill” – to include a range of advance business communications services,
including Internet access, SD-WAN, wireless WAN, hosted PBX, SIP trunking, mobile voice and data, mobile device management,
managed security, network integration and more. Granite employs more than 2,200 people at its headquarters
in Quincy, Mass., and nine regional offices located in McLean, VA, Atlanta, GA,
Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, West Palm Beach, FL, Orlando, FL, New York, NY, Philadelphia,
PA and Providence, RI. For more information, visit www.granitenet.com.
Media
Contacts:
Jeremy Robison
Executive Assistant
617-837-4027
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