Eaton Corp. nails $568.7 million UPS contract at Utah military base
Eaton Corp., Cleveland, has been awarded a contract to provide the U.S. Air Force's Air Logistics Center (ALC), at the Hill Air Force Base, Utah, with power reliability products and complete turnkey services including engineering, project management, system integration, installation, training and onsite maintenance services. The contract could be worth as much as $568.7 million and will be divided among two suppliers over its five-year life with one single two-year option period. Eaton's Electrical Service & Systems Division's Federal Systems Business Unit will manage the work for the contract.
This contract represents the fourth such award by the U.S. Air Force to Eaton for uninterruptible power system (UPS) equipment and system integration. The previous contracts were awarded in 1988, 1996, and 2001 to Powerware Corporation, which was acquired by Eaton in 2004. According to an Eaton press release, it's one of the largest UPS suppliers to the U.S. Government and has been recognized for providing the highest quality products and services to some of its most critical and classified operations in the world.
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