SAIC Wins Enterprise Information Technology Acquisition Contract
(SAN DIEGO) Jul 13, 2004- A team led by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced it has been awarded the Enterprise Information Technology Acquisition (EITA) contract from the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Electronic Systems Center (ESC) Materiel Systems Group (MSG).
The SAIC team will provide enterprise information technology (IT) services to the MSG and Standard Systems Group (SSG). Customers include the Air Force and other government agencies in the combat support, national security and business operations arenas such as supply, maintenance, transportation, materiel management, business information, financial management, procurement, human resources, medical and other areas as needed.
This five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract has a ceiling value of $498 million. The contract vehicle will be a key element in the AFMC and the Air Force's transformation activities.
“This important win allows SAIC to continue a proud tradition of 20 years of service to the AFMC (previously AFLC),” said Jim Cuff, SAIC senior vice president and manager of the Logistics and Engineering Solutions Business Unit. “This contract positions SAIC as a premier provider of transformation services to the Air Force.”
The MSG expects to leverage the use of commercial-off-the-shelf and other reusable technologies to build needed solutions to include enterprise resource planning, financial resources management, human resources management, manufacturing resource planning, advanced planning and scheduling, collaborative resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management, document management, enterprise data and metadata management tools.
EITA will provide for information technology services such as pre-development and new development, technical refresh, legacy system maintenance and process improvement support.
Members of SAIC's team include Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, based in New York, N.Y.; Hewlett-Packard Services, based in Palo Alto, Calif.; Keane Federal, based in Boston, Mass.; Robbins-Gioia, based in Alexandria, Va.; Main Sail LLC, based in Cleveland, Ohio; Advanced Management Technology, Inc., based in Arlington, Va.; Avexus, based in San Diego, Calif.; Booz Allen Hamilton, based in McLean, Va.; Digital Concepts Inc., based in Dayton, Ohio; IFSNA, based in Chicago, Ill.; I.M. Systems Group, Inc., based in Kensington, Md.; MATCOM/SI International, based in Reston, Va.; Manugistics, based in Rockville, Md.; Mercury Interactive, based in Mountain View, Calif.; Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash.; ML Technologies, Inc., based in Saint Anthony, Idaho; Oasis, based in Bedford, Va.; Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif.; Professional Data Resources, based in Cincinnati, Ohio; Proficient Information Technologies, based in Dayton, Ohio; Quantrum LLC., based in Dayton, Ohio; SAP, based in Walldorf, Germany; and VCI, Inc., based in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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