CARMEL, IND. – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the University of Texas-Dallas for its new student housing building and to ultimately replace the access control system presently used and to install a new system that includes the Software House access management system.  The Dallas system will include hardwired proximity card readers at all the exterior and hallway doors in the student housing building. The Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies Integration Office in Plano, Texas, used the Texas Multiple Award Schedule (TXMAS) contract vehicle toentify the opportunity.  After submitting their proposal and making a presentation, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies was awarded the contract. “We did a request for information from vendors authorized to sell the Software House brand under the State of Texas TXMAS program,” reports Paul Watson, C.P.M., purchasing and hub program manager for the University of Texas-Dallas.  “We did site visits and analyses of the top local companies.  We decided to make an award to Ingersoll Rand as the ‘Best Value’ vendor for this project because they had the best level of training, support and the best proposal of all the companies. All vendors were offering the same contract pricing.” The state of Texas procurement rules allow Texas agencies to purchase goods and services from suppliers who have converted their existing Federal Government GSA contract into a Texas contract. About the University of Texas-Dallas For the past three years, UT Dallas stu­dents’ average SAT score was the highest in Texas among public universities. This brainpower is evident in its national champion chess team, its 86 percent acceptance rate to law school, and its high number of National Merit Scholars--in the top 100 colleges and universi­ties in the U.S. UT Dallas is the only North Texas university with members of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and a Nobel Prize winner among its faculty. Founded in 1969 by the original partners who started Texas Instruments – Cecil Green, Erik Jonsson and Eugene McDermott. UT Dallas is known for its university-industry collaborations and its entrepreneurial nature.With seven schools, 15,000 students, (a third of them graduate students) UT Dallas offers very strong programs in Engineering, Management, Arts and Technology and Brain and Behavioral sciences. About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies is a leading global provider of products and services that make environments safe, secure and productive. The sector’s market-leading products include electronic and biometric access control systems; time-and-attendance and personnel scheduling systems; mechanical locks; portable security; door closers, exit devices, architectural hardware, and steel doors and frames; and other technologies and services for global security markets.  Website is www.securitytechnologies.ingersollrand.com. For more information, contact:  Jana Lasch, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies Phone: (317) 810-3791 Tom Brigham, Brigham Scully Phone: (207) 941-1100