Networx Enterprise, whose contract award has been postponed to May 2007 from September of this year, is a more tailored piece of the project designed to give smaller companies without global reach a chance to bid for part of the work. Beyond that they will bid for individual agency projects.

Winners of Networx Universal, whose award date has been delayed until March 2007 from July of this year, will share $525 million in guaranteed revenue.

Networx Universal, the larger and more lucrative piece, requires bidders to serve more than 15,000 locations in the United States and overseas, providing noncombat communications for the military and U.S. The telecom contract, the largest ever to be awarded by the GSA, is the grand prize in federal communications work and attracted bids from groups led by AT&T Inc., Qwest Communications International Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp.

The General Services Administration yesterday told bidders on its estimated $20 billion, 10-year 'Networx' telecommunications contract that it had postponed the award dates until 2007 but gave no specific reason for the delay.

Gsa networx enterprise awardees