FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
"Government Blasts Off"

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When it comes to data management, nobody can touch Uncle Sam. Every day in the United States, federal employees harness the power of computers to manage a galaxy of data. Reports that once took a roomful of workers a week to generate now just take a couple of clicks. Increasingly, those clicks happen on Gateway 2000 PCs. More and more cow-spotted boxes are showing up around the hallowed halls of the Congressional, Judicial and Executive branches these days. Our combination of quality, price, product and service have launched Gateway as the choice for high Value of Ownership.

Number One
Since hitting the GSA Schedule in 1994, Gateway has climbed the rankings like a jet fighter going vertical, rolling out as the number-one direct marketer of PCs on the schedule at the end of fiscal years 1995 and 1996. But the service certainly doesn’t stop after the sale at Gateway. We’re just getting started. If our government customers need service on their systems, their account executives are just a toll-free call away. Gateway also supplements its internal sales team with regional managers. In the March 3, 1997 issue of Government Computer Computer News, Bill Jones, publishing chief at the Air Force Reserve, said Gateway service shined when he needed replacement components. "I called and they had (the components) here in under two days," Jones said. "I’ve never had that kind of support before. Oh, yes, we love Gateway." The same GCN issue included a survey of feds who named Gateway as their overall perferred machine and tops in seven of 10 categories.

PCs Made Fresh Daily
When you choose Gateway 2000 PCs, you know you’re getting fresh technology. Gateway PCs don’t exist until someone orders them. We build each system only after each customer has selected the components that go inside. The choices are yours. Your account executive will help you configure systems that meet your unique needs. Once you select a system configuration, we send the order to manufacturing. There our skilled crew installs the quality hardware and software components working from a configuration sheet that travels with the case down the assembly line.

What if your large volume order needs special hardware or software? No problem. Gateway’s Custom Integration Services can incorporate a wide range of hardware and software into your Gateway PCs, even things we don’t normally sell.

With qualified purchases, CIS lets you cut out the third party vendors who load custom software or hardware into your new PCs. Instead, Gateway will build the system to the configuration you choose, install or load the specialized products, test it all at our manufacturing plant and ship the systems out. Before you know it, your office can be hip deep in cow-spotted boxes containing PCs ready to start working for you.

Howdy, Neighbor!
In part to help serve our federal government clients, Gateway opened a new manufacturing plant in 1996 just down the interstate from Washington, D.C. in Hampton, Va. Powered by the area’s technically-skilled work force, our ultra-modern Hampton plant started producing PCs in July 1996. Plans to expand production have quickly moved ahead of schedule. Combined with our headquarters’ manufacturing plant in North Sioux City, S.D., Gateway is poised to meet growing demand into the next century.

Simple Procurement
Just check our offerings on GSA contract #GS-35F-3349D and give us a call. Or check our site on the GSA Advantage! Web site (use keyword search "Gateway"). You can even order on-line. You already have to conquer a formidable number of procedures, paperwork and conditions just to buy office PCs without the vendor adding to the hurdles. Our goal is to make the process of paying for your Gateway PCs as easy as the process of getting them ordered and shipped. That’s why we include a member of our accounting department on the team that serves each customer. So just pull out your government IMPAC card or send us a purchase order and we’ll help you peel yards of red tape off purchasing procedures. Or, if your department plans to call for bids on computer hardware, let us know. We’ll sharpen our pencils and make the other bidders sweat.

Value For Tight Belts

The sum of all this is high-value PCs for government offices at prices that fit into shrinking budgets. We’re ready to put our PCs on a mission to keep order in your galaxy of data. Call Gateway at 800-779-2000 today and put our quality and service to work for your office.

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