Gainesville, FL, October 11, 2010 - Main Street Softworks, Inc., a leading developer of integrated payment processing solutions for retail point of sale, e-commerce, and embedded applications, today announced that the U.S. General Services Administration has awarded the company a multi-year contract under the GSA's Information Technology Schedule 70. This award will facilitate purchase of Main Street's cost-effective, high-performance transaction processing solutions by federal, state, county and city governments.

“For almost a decade, Main Street Softworks, Inc. has been providing payment processing solutions to businesses and government agencies of all shapes and sizes. The hard work required to obtain a GSA schedule award illustrates our continued commitment to serving this important market segment,” said Darryl Wright, the company's president. “Demand among government agencies for affordable and secure payment acceptance solutions has been growing rapidly, and we at Main Street Softworks are very pleased that our products are now approved for purchase as off-the-shelf solutions for IT Schedule 70 government purchasers,” he added.

The GSA's IT Schedule 70 allows for choice, flexibility, ease of use and access to the highest quality of IT products, services and solutions. Main Street Softworks' products are available under contract number GS-35F-0640W. Authorized state and local government entities may procure through that contract under the GSA's Cooperative Purchasing program.

Main Street's offerings include the Monetra® transaction processing software that routes directly to all major transaction processors, and CardShield®, a suite of data protection tools providing “tokenization” and “end to end” encryption features which isolate sensitive card data from point-of-sale systems, application software, and legacy environments for high security and rapid PCI compliance.

To learn more visit: www.monetra.com/content/government.html