CARMEL, IND. - August 1,
2008 - Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that it has been
awarded a contract by the University of Texas-Dallas for its new student housing
building and to ultimately replace the access control system presently used
and to install a new system that includes the Software House access management
system. The Dallas system will include hardwired proximity card readers at all
the exterior and hallway doors in the student housing building.
The Ingersoll Rand Security
Technologies Integration Office in Plano, Texas, used the Texas Multiple Award
Schedule (TXMAS) contract vehicle to identify the opportunity. After submitting
their proposal and making a presentation, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
was awarded the contract.
"We did a request for
information from vendors authorized to sell the Software House brand under the
State of Texas TXMAS program," reports Paul Watson, C.P.M., purchasing
and hub program manager for the University of Texas-Dallas. "We did site
visits and analyses of the top local companies. We decided to make an award
to Ingersoll Rand as the 'Best Value' vendor for this project because they had
the best level of training, support and the best proposal of all the companies.
All vendors were offering the same contract pricing."
The state of Texas procurement
rules allow Texas agencies to purchase goods and services from suppliers who
have converted their existing Federal Government GSA contract into a Texas contract.
About the University of Texas-Dallas
For the past three years, UT Dallas students' average SAT score was the highest
in Texas among public universities. This brainpower is evident in its national
champion chess team, its 86 percent acceptance rate to law school, and its high
number of National Merit Scholars--in the top 100 colleges and universities
in the U.S. UT Dallas is the only North Texas university with members of the
National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and a Nobel Prize winner among
its faculty. Founded in 1969 by the original partners who started Texas Instruments
- Cecil Green, Erik Jonsson and Eugene McDermott. UT Dallas is known for its
university-industry collaborations and its entrepreneurial nature. With seven
schools, 15,000 students, (a third of them graduate students) UT Dallas offers
very strong programs in Engineering, Management, Arts and Technology and Brain
and Behavioral sciences.