Unisys Gets DHS Contract Worth Up to $750 million

feamsr00 writes "In an affirmation of its business relationship with Unisys Corp., the Department of Homeland Security awarded the Blue Bell firm a "bridge" contract worth up to $750 million. Some controversy erupted in the fall after it was reported that the government was auditing a Unisys contract because the company had possibly overbilled the Transportation Security Administration by as much as 171,000 hours of labor and overtime. TSA is a division of the Homeland Security department. Unisys is also to upgrade the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters facility in Washington."

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pardon me?

[Combas]

Man I wish I was in security right now.

I just find it amazing how security experts are getting paid such big bucks yet according to recent audits show they arent really making things all that much safer.

Re:pardon me?

[biocute]

They don't have to make things much safer, they only have to make people feel that things are much safer now.

Re:pardon me?

[university chica]

I work for TSA. We really don't get paid that well, and our overtime and staffing have been cut drastically. Maybe if we weren't understaffed by almost 30% of our federally allotted screeners and prohibited from doing overtime, security would be better.

that's great.

[User 956]

It makes me feel much better, considering they cut the CyberSecurity budget to $16 million.

Re:that's great.

[aywwts4]

Dont worry, once you see the heaps of giant flatscreen monitors and really cool custom "Terrortracking" GUIs just flashing random information on the screens faster than anyone could processs the information you will feel much safer. Oh and its all going to make cool Beeps and Boops, alienware is supplying the cases, and Dont let me forget to mention the tinted glass walls everywhere and blue and red gelled accent lighting, oh, and the lasers!

I mean, atleast, if its anything like TV.

I work for Unisys....

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.

Reading a story about 'us' overbilling, generally being corrupt is a bit of a non event. Breaks my fucking heart to see some of the shit that goes on with middle and upper management, coming into the office every day means giving up a bit (read: a lot) of self respect, unfortunately I've got bills to pay :(

Re:I work for Unisys....

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would I bother with lies? There's nothing for me to gain by spinning bullshit to anybody.

I work for Unisys, they're a pack of assholes. We sell expensive services to PHB's and effectively do very little. Front line workers are treated like imbeciles, customers are milked more than I thought could have been possible.

Management is little short of insulting, the day I recieved training manuals on "How to ensure you're not dealing with a terrorist organisation", was the day I started looking elsewhere for income. A company like this wasting money feeding the ol' terror machine is something I just don't want to be a part of anymore.

A lot of the time a problem arises, there's more discussion on how to avoid fixing it, or making it an "out of scope" issue than there is discussion on how to fix the problem and avoid it in the future.

Believe what you like, but maybe somebody will read this and look elsewhere for an outsourcing solution, maybe they won't. Clearly that won't have any impact on you.

DHS Windows upgrade

[SpaceLifeForm]

Unisys is also to upgrade the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters facility in Washington.

WMF patch rollout Tuesday.

I wonder

[Comatose51]

the Department of Homeland Security awarded the Blue Bell firm a "bridge" contract worth up to $750 million

Does this "bridge" contract involve the sale of a bridge somewhere in New York City to someone?

Re:A more corrupt version of IBM

[doubtless]

When I worked for Unisys about 4 years ago, they had 32 way xeon machines. They were the company that provided the biggest windows server, OEM to HP too. Not that I'm saying it's necessarily a great product, but do give them some credits.

Overbill ?! of course !!

[Gates82]

I work for Unisys, worst job I have ever had. I was working for IBM. IBM lost the service contract and I ended up working for Unisys.

Unisys is one of the most unethical companies I have done business with. What can you expect though, our major contract is with Dell. So Dell is awarded a contract and then Unisys fullfills the service end of that agreement. So not only do I work for an awful company I get to deal with crappy Dell hardware, and a Dell Helpless desk (as the customers on my site have come to call them).

It is no surprise that Unisys overbilled the TSA. We are constantly told to put time on both our tickets and another accounting method. In effect this often double bills our customer or increases the time that we put on calls. In an eight hour day I have often done 15-20 hours worth of work. I often work reimaging one or two systems an complete other calls, but on a busy day a may really only perform 10-12 hours worth of work in 8 hours.

I am currently looking for a new job. I try to be as honest as I can and still follow this screwed up system. Although when a company chooses the lowest bidder they do get what they pay for. And the Dells and Unisyses of the industry are going to make the profit margin by cheating their customers. It's a good thing I like the company that I support.

If anyone has a desktop position open in Phoenix, AZ check out my resume

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