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ACS Signs Five-Year, $100 Million Deal to Provide Technology Services to UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.
Date:7/31/2008

DALLAS, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) today announced a five year contract, totaling $100 million, with UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc., a Worcester, Massachusetts-based hospital system, to provide extensive information systems services. The contract will extend an existing six-year business relationship.

Under the terms of the agreement, ACS will provide a cost-effective method of expanding UMass Memorial's IT systems through planned deployment of servers and data storage based on the hospital system's specific IT infrastructure needs. ACS will provide networking, data systems, data center hosting, desktop, help desk, telecommunications, disaster recovery, and resource planning services.

"This new agreement will enable UMass Memorial to continue our successful relationship with ACS to tackle upcoming challenges, including growing demands for storage, high availability computing, clinical information systems and the increasing service levels the technology requires," said George Brenckle, senior vice president and chief information officer, UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. "We are confident our extended partnership with ACS will elicit continued success and help reposition our hospital system for future growth."

Through it subsidiary unit, ACS Healthcare Solutions, the company has a legacy in healthcare information technology and clinical transformation by providing a full array of services to healthcare delivery systems to help them operate more efficiently and effectively, including world-class healthcare transformational outsourcing services.

"UMass Memorial is demonstrating its leadership by taking proactive steps to anticipate and increase its capabilities
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