In order to take account of the increasing use of Apple devices in the research community, the GWDG has taken on the task of tendering a new Apple framework agreement for scientific institutions. For all institutions that have declared their participation, this will seamlessly follow the current Apple framework agreement, which expires on March 31, 2024.<\/p>\n
After all the necessary deadlines had expired, the contract was again awarded to Cancom<\/a>, which submitted the most cost-effective bid.<\/p>\n The framework agreement involves 53 scientific institutions and includes the purchase of Apple hardware as well as optional maintenance and first level support.<\/p>\n In addition, credit for the Volume Purchase Program (VPP)<\/a> for apps can be purchased on request and it will also be possible to book Automated Device Enrolment (ADE)<\/a> for use with the MDM solution deployed in the organization via the web shop provided by Cancom.<\/p>\n As part of the optional maintenance extension, Apple Care for Enterprise<\/a> has also been added to the new framework agreement as an option for the devices purchased. Apple Care for Enterprise not only includes worldwide<\/a> on-site hardware support, but also a support number that can be contacted for all Apple hardware and software-related problems, thus also relieving the burden on support staff at the institutions.<\/p>\n The framework agreement has an initial term of two years and can be extended by mutual agreement for one year at a time until March 31, 2028.<\/p>\n Further information on the Apple framework agreement can be found here<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In order to take account of the increasing use of Apple devices in the research community, the GWDG has taken on the task of tendering a new Apple framework agreement for scientific institutions. For all institutions that have declared their participation, this will seamlessly follow the current Apple framework agreement, which expires on March 31, … Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23706,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705\/revisions\/23706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}