### For Immediate release
May 5, 2002
Los Angeles, CA
Acquiring Technology Simplified for California Schools
Cusato & Company Inc., one of California’s largest system integrators, specializing in the school market, is pleased to announce state approved “piggybackable,” DVBE compliant contracts. These contracts enable School Districts throughout the state to purchase; Cabling, Cisco Switches and Routers, HP/Compaq Computer’s complete line of desktops, notebooks file servers and imaging products and accessories, without the costly, time consuming, process of going to bid. Cusato and Company also offers one of the areas most comprehensive lines of engineering services to design install, manage and secure the most sophisticated local and wide area networks.
Competitive pricing, outstanding service from a single source will make your school’s step into today’s complex technologies easy, painless and efficient.
Cusato and Company is one of Compaq’s
largest certified education partners in the country. Utilizing Glendale USD
Compaq Bid #P1599, schools can buy products and services for as
low as 27% below the already discounted HP/Compaq National
Education Price list. (The new HP)
Cisco Bid #P12-01/02 allows districts to buy the entire line of Cisco products and services at discounts as high as 40% off list.
The company’s cabling partner, Checkpoint Communication holds Bid #25-99/00 for data cabling and related services, and can handle all your district’s cablings needs. Checkpoint has an excellent reputation for quality work and solid project management capabilities
Cusato & Company’s engineering service offerings are one of the most comprehensive in the area. From simple LAN design and installation to the more sophisticated hardware and software driven security solutions, our engineers are not only certified but have hands-on practical experience derived from both the public as well as the private sectors. Whether it’s Novell, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Extreme, or Internet/Web site development, Cusato and Company, though it’s strategic partner Affidia Systems Inc., has the resource and certification to best meet the problem at hand.
In addition to the discounts listed, Cusato & Company offers over 10 years experience in working with K-12 school districts of various sizes in Southern California. The Company’s primary goal has been to help these districts cope with the challenges of integrating technology into the classroom and into enterprise functions of district management.
It is this kind of on going commitment to education that has facilitated Cusato and Company’s growth to where it ranks among the largest K-12 system Integrators in the country. .
As a service driven company, its mission is to insure that the technology works and that the total cost of ownership decreases. In this regard, Cusato and Company offers to the district the following services at no charge.
· Assistance in short and long term integration planning
· Help in facilitating the vendor’s selection process by identifying quality products, and uncovering companies with a
desire to help education beyond selling product
· Presales assistance in product selection, and configuration
· Project management
· Review of material and labor cost to insure accuracy and cost efficient purchasing
· Acting as the liaison between the district and vendors to clarify needs, to deal with problem situations that
lead to a constructive solution while avoiding unnecessary and unproductive confrontation.
· Coordinating project review meetings to insure that objectives have been met
· Assurance that the district stays current with the rapid changes inherent with technology.
For more
information contact:
Carl Cusato
Cusato & Company, Inc.
310.459.8574
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For
more information on strategic partners, see their web sites:
Affidia
Systems Inc - www.affidia.com
Checkpoint
Communications – www.checkpointcomm.com
HP/Compaq Computers www.compaq.com