Department of Veterans Affairs, Austin Automation Center

The AITC remains dedicated to offering the highest quality services at the most competitive prices. To consistently accomplish this, we’ve improved service every year since we became a Franchise Fund entity in 1997.

The AITC’s CPU and disk data storage workloads and rates over the past 5 years are available.

PROCESSING SERVICES

	UNIT	RATE
ONLINE/BATCH PROCESSING Enterprise Server	CPU/Hour*	$169.32
TAPE MOUNTS	Mount	$1.53

DATA STORAGE

Disk Storage	Gigabyte/Month	$6.32
Tape Storage	Reel/Tape/Month	$1.14

PRINTING AND MAIL SERVICES

Non-Impact	Images	$.03
Outgoing Mail - Machine	Piece	$.11
Outgoing Mail - Hand Paced	Piece	$.08

PRODUCTION SERVICES

Job Setup, Scheduling, and Breakdown

Hour

$92.28

SYSTEMS SUPPORT

Computer Systems Programmer	Hour	$106.11
Computer Systems Analyst (Database)	Hour	$120.14

ENTERPRISE SERVICES
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT/ENHANCEMENT

Project Manager	Hour	$106.49
Senior Computer Systems Analyst	Hour	$102.79
Computer Systems Analyst	Hour	$80.63
Computer Programmer/Analyst	Hour	$67.44

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

FEES

Acquisition Services

Orders against existing contracts	2% of obligated dollars
New contract awards	3% of obligated dollars
AITC Customer Discount	For current AITC customers, once expenditures for IT professional or processing services in a given fiscal year surpass $500K, customer receives a 50% discount (1% for orders against existing contracts or 1.5% for new contract awards).
Volume Discount	For customers who guarantee total procurement awards of $100M or more in a given fiscal year, customer receives a 75% discount (0.5% for orders against existing contracts or 0.75% for new contract awards).
Breakpoint Discount	For single contracts/orders awarded of $5M or more, customer receives a 50% discount.

*CPU rate has been normalized to an IBM ES/9021-9X2 processor