Jabber Awarded Five-Year GSA Schedule Contract

Jabber, Inc. announced that it was awarded a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contract for its presence and messaging solutions. The five-year GSA Schedule contract (GS-35F-0239U), effective from February 7, 2008 through February 6, 2013, makes Jabber’s real-time presence and messaging applications widely available to federal, state, and local governments.

As a vendor on the GSA Schedule Group 70 contract program, Jabber has been approved to provide the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform™ (Jabber XCP™), optional client software, a full range of interoperability gateways, and additional services to all government entities. Jabber is the leading provider of secure, always-on, low bandwidth, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) chat. Jabber’s open, standards-based platform delivers the interoperability, scalability, and security capabilities that enable government and civilian agencies to eliminate information silos, create a shared information space, promote synchronous collaboration, increase decision velocity, and improve situational awareness.

“The GSA Schedule simplifies and shortens the procurement process for government agencies to purchase Jabber’s presence and messaging solutions,” said Harry B. Heisler, general manager of Jabber Government. “Being on the GSA Schedule is an important part of our government sales efforts and improves our ability to quickly and easily serve current government customers across the Department of Defense, Directorate of National Intelligence, and Department of Homeland Security as well as new customers within the entire federal and public-sector marketplace.”