The OEM and Granite Data Solutions (GDS) will provide printers to the state of California.
Lexmark reported that it and GDS have partnered to win the printer contract, with GDS awarded the “state-wide” printer contracts to provide the OEM’s single-function printers, including its “award-winning monochrome and colour products”, while “enterprise-level hardware devices are available with Lexmark OEM warranty and supplies”. The contact is available to “state agencies” as well as “city and county government, K-12 schools and higher education institutions”.
GDS is a disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE) as well as a small business enterprise (SBE), with Lexmark stating that it “holds contract status” in California to provide companies “that purchase select Lexmark printers” with a “100 percent DVBE and SBE expenditure credit”. GDS will also “provide value-added services” such as “basic installation, asset tagging, DoD data wipe” and “disposition and disposal services”.
Lexmark also noted that the contract’s terms “are environmentally friendly”, as they feature printers from the OEM that “meet the latest Energy Star requirements” as well as including a “take-back programme for end-of-life printers and consumables” to help “reduce waste disposal”. Scott Mitchell, Director of Sales and Operations at GDS, stated that “the cohesion between our organisation and Lexmark is tremendous. Our partnership focuses on the customer, their requirements and the process necessary to get their products up and running in their environment”.
Marty Canning, Executive Vice President of Lexmark and President of its Imaging Solutions and Services unit, added: “As partners, Lexmark and GDS understand the shrinking budgets and increasing demand for government services. Together, it’s our goal to unify print and digital information to help our government customers analyse business mission processes, do more with less and better serve their constituents.”