Introducing the U$ave Program

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Introducing the U$ave Program

The University of Massachusetts is pleased to bring to the University's primary constituents-the campuses and their students, faculty, and staff-the second generation of the U$ave purchasing program for personal computers. This purchasing program, originally conceived and launched in 2002, takes advantage of the volume purchasing power of all five University campuses and returns substantial discounts to the purchaser. U$ave, while designed primarily to serve the computer purchasing needs of the campuses, also extends its benefits to personal purchases by University students, faculty, and staff.

A recent competitive bidding process conducted by the University President's Office in collaboration with all five campuses has resulted in a three-year contract award for desktop and notebook computers to Dell, Inc. With the growing adoption of Tablet PC's, and with rapid changes coming from the various vendors, the University has gone with a one year award of preferred configurations from Gateway and HP for these devices. U$ave also supports purchases of computers from Apple, Inc. We encourage you to do your computer shopping through this web site and take full advantage of the substantial savings you will find here. The prices are the best available for the models that have the UMass-specified features.

If you have any questions about the recommended or other personal computer models, please contact the representatives named on the following Web Pages.

Sincerely,

David Gray
Vice President for Information Services and CIO,
CEO of UMassOnline,
University of Massachusetts