Black Box Awarded Major Healthcare Telecommunications and IT Infrastructure Agreement by Premier Healthcare Alliance
July 22 2009 - 9:08AM
Business Wire
Black Box Corporation (NASDAQ:BBOX), an industry-leading
provider of voice communications, data infrastructure, and product
solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a
telecommunications and data infrastructure services and technology
product agreement from Premier Purchasing Partners, LP., the group
purchasing unit of Premier, Inc. The agreement, which became
effective May 1, 2009, is available to acute care and continuum of
care members of the Premier healthcare alliance�. Under the
agreement, Black Box Network Services will provide voice
communications, data infrastructure, and technology products to the
Premier healthcare alliance and its members.
The Premier healthcare alliance is comprised of more than 2,100
U.S. hospitals and 58,000 healthcare sites working together to
improve healthcare quality and affordability. Premier works with
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services and the United
Kingdom�s Health Service North West to improve hospital
performance. Hospitals and healthcare sites can save significant
costs simply by converting to Premier contracts for supplies.
Communications services offered by Black Box include traditional
telephony, voice over IP, unified communications, mobility, and
maintenance services.
Infrastructure offerings include start-to-finish services for
new data infrastructure installations and systems upgrades as well
as structured cabling, data centers, data networking, wired and
wireless networks, CATV and video systems, and digital signage.
Premier healthcare alliance members can also procure more than
16,000 technology products in numerous categories, including
cabling, cabinets and racks, digital signage and multimedia,
networking, KVM, testers and tools, peripheral switching and
sharing, data communications, environmental monitoring and control,
and power and surge protection.
�By providing comprehensive communications and infrastructure
solutions to Premier healthcare alliance members through the new
agreement, Black Box can help hospitals and other healthcare sites
reduce operating and procurement costs and improve services,� said
Terry Blakemore, President and CEO. �We are honored to be awarded
the agreement and look forward to working with the Premier
members.�
About Black BoxBlack Box is the world�s largest technical
services company dedicated to designing, building and maintaining
today�s complicated data and voice infrastructure systems. Black
Box services 175,000 clients in 141 countries with 192 offices
throughout the world. To learn more, visit the Black Box Web site
at http://www.blackbox.com.
Black Box� and the Double Diamond logo are registered trademarks
of BB Technologies, Inc. Any third-party trademarks appearing in
this press release are acknowledged to be the property of their
respective owners.
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