U.S. State Dept. Asks Amazon For Kindle Contract

The U.S. State Department is working with Amazon to potentially supply its employees with Kindle Touch eReader devices. The government agency has asked Amazon to bid on what could become a 5 year, $16.5 million contract.

According to a solicitation document for the bid, Amazon will host private government documents. Here is more from the document: “The Contractor shall provide an exclusive, private online document repository from which the Department of State may distribute USG public domain material accesible via 3G or Wi-Fi from the locations listed in Attachment A.

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