The company's Asset Recovery Services program features two unique components. End of Life (EOL) Certified Disposal and Used Equipment Remarketing Service. EOL Certified Disposal removes and recycles outdated hardware in compliance with changing local, state, federal and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines, while also cleaning data from hard drives to protect confidential data. Used Equipment Remarketing Service provides cash or credit toward future Gateway hardware purchases depending on the condition of the equipment and whether it can be refurbished and resold.
"We used Gateway Asset Recovery Services to upgrade to Gateway Profile 4 computers in service agencies city-wide -- from the mayor's office to our municipal courts to the city zoo," said Neil Wilson, user system consultant II for the City of Topeka. "Gateway collected the old units, scrubbed information from the machines, insuring that the city's confidential data was completely removed, and then gave us credit for the units they were able to refurbish and resell. So far, we've made money on our old computers."
As part of the paid service, Gateway also manages the palletizing, shrink- wrapping and transporting of the equipment, and provides asset tracking documentation. Ultimately, this service saves organizations time and money by taking care of processing and inventory management for the units. In fact, the City of Topeka has removed or upgraded more than 500 units to date, saving of one hour of processing per unit -- or more than 62 eight-hour workdays.
