Dell has been awarded PC technology and services contract by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to provide client PC technology and services for approximately 1,200 sites nationwide.

Under the four-year, $476m contract, Dell will provide the VA with approximately 600,000 PCs and monitors.

Dell will also provide deployment services and support to the VA and will help the agency to continue to transform its end-user computing environment to improve access, manageability and security.

The new offerings will improve flexibility and mobility among VA employees and enable the organisation to quickly transition to efficient offerings like desktop virtualisation, the company said.

Further, Dell has selected other service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses to support managed deployment services to the VA’s 1,200 sites.

The selected partners include Four Points Technology, HMS Technologies, Arma Systems, Cliveden and Alpha Ten.