GSA Awards $90.5M U.S. Department of Agriculture Task Order to SRA
November 07 2006 - 4:05PM
PR Newswire (US)
Company Wins Five-Year Contract to Design and Maintain Web-Based
Supply Chain Management System FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 7
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRA International, Inc. (NYSE:SRX), a
leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services
and solutions to federal government organizations, announced that
it has been awarded a competitive task order by the U.S. General
Services Administration's Federal Systems Integration and
Management Center (FEDSIM). The SRA team will provide the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) with a broad range of information
technology services to develop and maintain a new system to improve
the procurement, delivery, and management of commodities for
domestic and foreign food assistance programs operated throughout
the world. The SRA team includes Accenture and six small
businesses: ECCO Select; M.K. Brown Consulting; Preferred Systems
Solutions, Inc.; The Talmadge Group, Inc.; TSymetry, Inc.; and
World Perspectives, Inc. The performance-based task order, awarded
under the Millennia contract, has an estimated value of $90.5
million over five years if all options are exercised. Four USDA
agencies, as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development,
manage commodity distribution programs serving over 30 million
Americans and 280 million people abroad. The Web-based supply chain
management system designed and maintained by the SRA team will
support the annual purchase of over $2.4 billion in commodities and
improve service for customers, suppliers, and business partners.
SRA team services will include program management; requirements
analysis; integration of commercial off-the-shelf products; systems
design, development, and integration; information security;
operations and maintenance; and training. "We are pleased to be
part of this mission-critical program that manages the purchasing
and ordering for all USDA domestic and international food aid
programs," said Tim Atkin, SRA Vice President and Director, Civil
Sector. "Our team is excited about supporting USDA in designing a
flexible and scalable program that will improve order cycle times,
financial processing, and other customer relationship management
areas to reduce costs for both USDA and its customers while
improving service." About SRA International, Inc. SRA is a leading
provider of technology and strategic consulting services and
solutions - including systems design, development, and integration;
and outsourcing and managed services - to clients in national
security, civil government, and health care and public health
markets. The Company also delivers business solutions for
contingency and disaster response planning, information assurance,
business intelligence, environmental strategies, enterprise
architecture, infrastructure management, and wireless integration.
FORTUNE(R) magazine has chosen SRA as one of the "100 Best
Companies to Work For" for seven consecutive years. The Company's
5,100 employees serve clients from its headquarters in Fairfax,
Virginia, and offices across the country. For additional
information on SRA, please visit http://www.sra.com/. Any
statements in this press release about future expectations, plans,
and prospects for SRA, including statements about the estimated
value of the contract and work to be performed, and other
statements containing the words "estimates," "believes,"
"anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," and similar expressions,
constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results
may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking
statements as a result of various important factors, including: our
dependence on our contracts with federal government agencies,
particularly within the U.S. Department of Defense, for
substantially all of our revenue, our dependence on our GSA
schedule contracts and our position as a prime contractor on
government-wide acquisition contracts and other multiple-award
contracts to grow our business, and other factors discussed in our
latest quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on November 3, 2006. In addition, the
forward-looking statements included in this press release represent
our views as of November 7, 2006. We anticipate that subsequent
events and developments will cause our views to change. However,
while we may elect to update these forward-looking statements at
some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation
to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied
upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to
November 7, 2006. DATASOURCE: SRA International, Inc. CONTACT:
Laura Luke of SRA International, Inc., +1-703-803-1856, Web site:
http://www.sra.com/
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