Virginia signs nearly $300 million contract with Verizon for voice and data services

StateScoop: Virginia officials announced Tuesday that it will pay Verizon $297.3 million over five-and-a-half years for voice and data services across state agencies. The deal is one of many new information technology contracts the commonwealth has struck recently, as it ends a long-running arrangement with the Northrop Grumman in which the defense firm was Virginia's single vendor for IT services.

The Verizon contract, which takes effect Dec. 15, follows a half-dozen other deals the state has entered into recently as it transitions toward a multi-vendor regime that will allow it to sign shorter IT contracts from a variety of providers, rather than depend on Northrop for all its needs.

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