GSA Awards OpenGeo IT Schedule 70 Contract
New York, NY, November 3 - OpenGeo announced that it has received a Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract from the General Services Administration (GSA). The new contract, number GS-35F-0034X listed on the GSA Information Technology Schedule 70, makes the OpenGeo Suite and related support services available to US government purchasers at a discounted rate. This would be the first time a complete, supported open source geospatial software solution has been listed on the GSA.
Chris Holmes, President of OpenGeo, commented on the GSA award: "Interest in the OpenGeo Suite by US government GIS professionals has been rapidly increasing. Agencies are making more data available to wider user groups, and new tools are necessary to extract intelligent, usable information. The web-based design of the OpenGeo Suite means that we are able to meet this requirement and facilitate the changing needs of users in a way that other solutions cannot."
Ken Bossung, OpenGeo Senior Vice President of Sales added, "The OpenGeo Suite provides a top-to-bottom web-mapping platform that can be used by anyone at any government agency, regardless of experience. The OpenGeo Suite is designed to combat some of the most common criticisms of open source software; namely that it lacks support and has a complex installation process. Our platform is exactly the opposite, offering unlimited support and bug fixes. The OpenGeo Suite is extremely user-friendly and intuitive, installs quickly and allows users to extend and complement the functionality of existing GIS and web-mapping platforms."
The OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition is the first geospatial web-mapping solution to offer unlimited support on a complete open source mapping stack. The OpenGeo Suite, which includes a robust geospatial development environment, is also the first to include PostGIS, a powerful spatially enabled database built on top of PostgreSQL, to eliminate lengthy implementation processes. Other key components of the OpenGeo Suite include GeoServer, a Java-based web mapping platform, GeoWebCache for accelerated map tile delivery, and GeoExt, a powerful JavaScript toolkit built on OpenLayers and Ext JS. The OpenGeo Suite is ideally suited for government GIS executives and IT professionals, combining full support for the open source stack with expertly tested software that is secure, certified and approved for production.
About OpenGeo
OpenGeo is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology. The company brings the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web. OpenGeo also supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. the company has provided successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, Ordnance Survey Great Britain, Portland TriMet, MassGIS, Landgate, and the Federal Communications Commission. OpenGeo is the geospatial division of OpenPlans, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that informs and engages communities through journalism and open source software. All of OpenGeo's revenue has been and will continue to be re-invested into innovative and useful software in support of the OpenPlans mission.