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Savantage Team Named One of Five Winners of PMSS-2 Contract
| Source: Savantage Solutions
ROCKVILLE, MD--(Marketwire - March 24, 2008) - Lisa Kazor, President and CEO of Savantage
Solutions, announced today that the Army's Program Executive Office for
Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) has awarded one of the Program
Management Support Services - 2 (PMSS-2) contract vehicles to the Savantage
Team. The PMSS-2 IDIQ contract vehicles, worth approximately $478.6 million
over the next 5 years, were awarded to 5 companies in total, including 3
large businesses and 2 small businesses. Tasks will be competed amongst
the 5 winning offerors.
Savantage, a woman-owned, small business, is the leader of a powerful,
integrated, 15-member team, composed of Federal Contractors who will
leverage their functional and technical experience to assist PEO-EIS with
program management and administration. The Savantage team members include
a variety of companies -- large and small, veteran-, woman- and
minority-owned businesses with expertise across all of the nine functional
areas identified by the Army in their RFP. With Savantage as the prime,
the members of Savantage Team include American Management Association, ASM
Research, BAE Systems, CGI Federal, DigiTelLink, E & M, Madison Research,
Pivotal-Insight, RWD, Savvis, Serco, SI International, TechTeam and
Vizornet. The team brings a strong world-wide presence, experience and
knowledge of PEO-EIS customers' missions and business processes and
procedures.
PEO-EIS is the largest of the Army's Program Executive Offices. Its
mission is to develop, acquire, integrate, deploy and sustain
network-centric systems aimed a providing a variety of mission-critical
capabilities to the Army by leveraging commercial and enterprise
capabilities. PEO-EIS is responsible for developing enterprise services,
managing hardware purchases and supporting the extension of the Army's
networking capabilities.
"Our Team is comprised of dedicated experts who are familiar with the
PEO-EIS customers and their businesses. We bring the expertise they need
to achieve their complex and challenging mission," said Ms. Kazor.
The functional areas covered by the PMSS-2 contract include program,
product and project management; business process reengineering; information
systems security; contingency planning; physical security; enterprise
design, integration and consolidation; systems operation and maintenance;
integrated logistics support; and other IT related services. PEO-EIS
customers will be able to use the contract to issue performance based task
orders.
"We are very excited to work with PEO-EIS to achieve their program
management and operational objectives," Ms. Kazor added. "This award
recognizes the important role that small, as well as large, businesses play
in supporting Federal Program management. This contracting vehicle is also
a major step for us as a company to expand our presence in the Army."
About Savantage Solutions
Savantage Solutions provides a wide range of consulting, integration,
technology and support solutions and services to Federal agencies. One of
only five vendors of financial management systems certified for federal use
by the OMB's Financial Systems Integration Office (FSIO), Savantage also
provides enterprise e-business solutions to government agencies. A
woman-owned business headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, Savantage takes
pride in its emphasis on service excellence.