Computer Equipment Purchase Rules from State DOA

MNJ Technologies www.mnjtechnologiesdirect.com/wiscgov.html
Contact: Brian
Ford 800.870.4340 x 8317
Bill
Casale 800.870.4340 X8319

Insight Public Sector www.insight.com/stateofwisconsin
Contact Amy Maniowski-Tschopp
800.568.9812
Mike
Mueller 800.321.2437 x6869

DISYS www.disys.com/government/wi/htm
Contact Pankaj Sharma 888.286.3896

bIT360, Inc www.bIT360.com
Contact Virginia
Zezulka 608-223-6115

AVI Midwest www.avimidwest.com
Contact Jennifer
Vosz 608.221.8888


The Purchasing Office is very interested in receiving your input on
how well these contracts serve you, including any feedback in
pricing or service concerns. If you have specific examples, please
send them to dcharkowski@bussvc.wisc.edu.

Information on contract rules:

The contract for computer peripherals is a mandatory state contract
issued by the Department of Administration, State Bureau of Procurement.
This contract does not include computers/systems, networking equipment
or servers. The DoIT Tech Store and MDS/Dell are still options to be
used as usual. There is no change there.

If you obtain pricing quotes from other vendors and find that their
pricing is better than the contract vendors, please forward copies of
the quotes or a summary of the pricing to me. I've very interested in
getting examples of pricing issues with the current contract. We don't
want the University to be paying more money for items simply because of
a contract, so if you do get more advantageous pricing elsewhere, you
can feel comfortable in proceeding with that purchase. I would ask, in
all fairness to the contracted vendors, to please make those contacts
and get pricing and give them an opportunity to submit quotes to you.
That's why I'm asking for the help of folks out in the departments in
providing their pricing experiences with me. If we hope to build in
more flexibility in some of these mandatory contracts, we'll be needing
some good data, collected from our end-users.