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BTG on Winning Unisys Team for NIH CIOSP Award; IT Services and Products Contract Has Potential Value of $100 Million to Unisys Team.


VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 1996--BTG, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTGI) announced that it is a subcontractor on the Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined.  team for an omnibus contract awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak.

NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health.
). The Chief Information Officers Solutions and Partners (CIOSP CIOSP Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners
CIOSP Common Inspection Onsite Software Package
) contract will give CIOs in federal agencies a purchasing vehicle for a broad range of information technology (IT) products and services.

CIOSP is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite- quantity (IDIQ IDIQ Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (contracting/procurement) ) contract open to all federal departments and agencies. UNISYS estimates that the team's potential revenue from CIOSP is $100 million over the contract's five-year term. The Unisys team will compete against other contractors for up to 5,000 task orders in systems integration, telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework.  services, data center outsourcing, Year 2000 solutions, telecommunications engineering and installation, and information technology security. The total value of CIOSP is open-ended; it is unique in that its ceiling is measured in number of task orders rather than dollars.

BTG's specific focus on the Unisys team is telecommuting, an area of increasing importance to federal, state and local governments. The company worked with the General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records.  on the first telework See telecommuting.  centers set up for government employees in the City of Hagerstown, Maryland.

BTG BTG BIT (Built-In Test) Target Generator
BTG Bridging the Gap
BTG British Technology Group
BtG Betreuungsgesetz (Germany)
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 is also performing with Unisys on DEIS II, a $3 billion, multiple-award contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency. BTG is a prime contractor on two other large-scale contracts for NIH. In August, BTG's team was selected for NIH's ImageWorld, a $100 million, multiple-award program that allows all federal agencies to purchase imaging and document management services and products. BTG also is a prime contractor on the NIH Electronic Computer Store, a $96.8 million multiple-award contract issued last October for the purchase of computer-related products.

Jeff Wilson, director of government sales for BTG Integration and Network Systems, said: "With CIOSP, NIH has completed a Triple Crown of contracts that give government agencies access to the most comprehensive, best value solutions for their information technology needs. CIOSP is not only simple to use, it's also a fast track, flexible vehicle that lets a CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.


(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization.
 react quickly to changing IT demands. We look forward to working with the Unisys team on this program."

BTG provides information technology services and products to government and commercial clients. The company specializes in systems engineering, integration and network systems, Internet/intranet access and services, custom computer manufacturing, and the value-added reselling of hardware, software and services.

The company has over 1000 employees and offices in ten states, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , and in Europe. Additional information on BTG is available on the Internet at http://www.btg.com/, by e-mail at info@btg.com, or by calling 703-556-6518. Investors contact: John Graham, 703- 761-6675, or by e-mail: investor@btg.com. Editors contact: Theda Parrish, 703-761-6581 (office), 703-573-8135 (home), or by e-mail: tparrish@btg.com.

CONTACT: Investors Contact:

John Graham

Vice President,

Corporate Affairs

703-761-6675

Fax 703-556-9290

E-Mail: investor@btg.com

or

Editors Contact:

Theda Parrish

Corporate Communications

703-761-6581

703-573-8135 (Home)

Fax 703-556-9290

E-Mail: tparrish@btg.com
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