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Local firms among those splitting $50 billion government contract

Aug 2, 2007 12:00 AM (488 days ago) by Melissa Frederick, The Examiner
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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Eighteen local firms, including major contractors and midsized companies, are among the 29 winners of a federal contract worth up to $50 billion.

The firms will spend the next 10 years providing information technology services to government customers; all federal agencies are eligible to bid on the contract, known as Alliant. The contract replaces two previous federal IT programs, ANSWER and Millennia, according to U.S. General Services Administration spokeswoman Eleni Martin.

Under the Alliant, each competitor offers a number of services at reduced prices, and agencies choose based on their prices. Martin said Alliant is distinctive from other similar programs because there are a number of different contract structures clients can use. Agencies must request a minimum of $1 million worth of service per order, Martin said.

“It’s a huge win; it’s the largest in the company’s history,” said Shiv Krishnan, chief executive officer of Indus Corp of Vienna. “There’s been a huge void of government contracts given to companies making between $1 million and $1 billion per year and this is a significant opportunity to move from a midtier to a large company.”

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The contract award was designed to promote midsized companies in addition to major firms. One such winner is McLean-based Alion Science and Technology Corp., a 3,500-employee company with between $700 million and 800 million a year in annual revenue.

“We’re very excited about being selected; it’s kind of an elite group,” spokesman Peter Jacobs said. “But what’s really exciting to us about this is that the government is looking for more enterprise IT solutions and that’s one of our strengths.”

Below is a list of the firms and where they are headquartered:

Advanced Management Technology, Arlington

Alion Science and Tech Corp, McLean

AT&T Govt Solutions, Vienna

BAE Systems, Rockville

BearingPoint, McLean

Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean

Caci International, Arlington

General Dynamics, Falls Church

Indus Vienna ITS Corp, Arlington (East Coast)

Lockheed Martin, Bethesda

ManTech Fairfax NCI Info Systems, Reston

QSS Group, Lanham

RS Information Systems, McLean

SAIC, McLean

SI International, Reston

Systems Research and Applications, Fairfax

melissa.frederick@dcexaminer.com

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9:12 PM MST on Sat., Aug. 9, 2008 re: "Minority contractors complain about bid process"

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HR 1873 does not require immediate recertification of companies registered as a small business. This goes directly against the spirit of the Small Business Act of 1953. HR 1873 has absolutely no provisions of any kind that would stop Hundred's of Fortune 1000 firms and international firms that have received federal small business contracts from continuing to receive billions in federal small business contracts until 2012.

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