CSC receives its first task order awarded by DOT's ITOP contract.FALLS CHURCH Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1996--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSC) has received its first competitively issued task order under the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) streamlined Information Technology Omnibus Procurement (ITOP ITOP Information Technology Omnibus Procurement ITOP Induced Termination of Pregnancy ITOP International Test Operations Procedure ITOP Intercontinental Transport of Pollution ITOP Integrated Test Operational Panel ) contract. The cost-plus-award-fee contract contains a base year value of $1.9 million and a total value of $8.1 million if all four one-year options are exercised. The task order requires CSC to provide help desk, desktop and network support to 600 users assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Transportation and the Transportation Administrative Service Center. CSC will be assisted by ANSTEC Inc. of Fairfax, Va., with help-desk support. Work will be performed by CSC's System Sciences Division, which has headquarters in Calverton, Md., and will involve approximately 25 system engineers, scientists, network specialists and other related skills. CSC was one of 20 firms selected by the DOT in May 1996 to provide streamlined information technology support under a $1.13 billion specific task-order contract. As a prime contractor on the Information Systems Engineering portion of the contract, CSC will provide office automation and network support, including local, wide area and Internet access See how to access the Internet. ; business process re-engineering See reengineering. (business) Business Process Re-engineering - (BPR) Any radical change in the way in which an organisation performs its business activities. BPR involves a fundamental re-think of the business processes followed by a redesign of business activities to ; electronic commerce; information technology strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , program assessment and studies; and software life-cycle management, engineering, maintenance and licensing. CSC had $5 billion in revenues for the 12 months ended June 28, 1996, including revenues from the recently acquired Continuum Co., which have been combined with CSC's revenues because the acquisition is accounted for as a pooling of interests Pooling of Interests An accounting method, used in mergers and acquisitions, where the balance sheet items of the two companies are simply added together. Notes: The opposite of pooling of interests is the purchase acquisition method. . CSC has headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., and has nearly 40,000 employees in more than 600 offices worldwide providing clients with a wide range of professional services, including management consulting, business re-engineering, information systems consulting and integration, and outsourcing. CONTACT: Computer Sciences Corp. John F. Gulick, 703/641-2588 Robert Pickard, 310/615-0311 |
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