CSC selected to provide technology services to National Institutes of Health.FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1996--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSC) has been selected to provide a wide range of information technology services to the National Institutes of Health (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ). Under a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract, CSC and other firms will compete for business worth an estimated $1 billion in support of the NIH's Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners (CIOSP) program. CSC will provide technical support in eight functional areas: task-order management, reinvention resourcing, information technology operations Information technology operations, or IT operations, are the superset of all processes and services that are both provisioned by an IT staff to their internal or external and used by themselves, to run themselves as a business. , integration services, telecommuting, telecommunications, network security and year 2000 software strategies. Noting that the CIOSP procurement took only three months, Milton Cooper, president of CSC's Systems Group, said that the program meets many objections of the Information Technology Management Reform Act The Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 and the Federal Acquisition Reform Act (FARA) of 1996 were combined to become the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (CCA). , which went into effect Aug. 8. "The legislation creates incentives for the government to use information technology strategically to deliver services to taxpayers more efficiently," said Cooper. "This contract helps transform a process-oriented procurement system into a results-oriented system." Users of the contract are expected to include the NIH and its institutes, centers and divisions, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS and other government agencies. Beginning this month, contractors will showcase their available services on home pages set up on the World Wide Web, which may be reached from the Internet URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. address: http://www.nih.gov/od/oirm/nihecs.html. CIOSP contract work will be led by CSC's System Sciences Division, which has headquarters in Calverton, Md. Subcontractors teaming with CSC on the effort include Alta Systems Inc., Anstec Inc., Analysis and Technologies Inc., ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. , Bell Atlantic, BETAC, Berdine & Associates, Century Computing, HPTI, Q Systems Inc., Soza, Trauwick & Associates and Westover Consultants Inc. CSC had $5 billion in revenues for the 12 months ended June 28, 1996, including 12 months of revenues from the recently acquired Continuum Company, 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. Media queries to CSC can be made through the Internet at rpickard@csc.com. CSC's Internet home page address: http://www.csc.com. CSC press releases and literature can be requested via Fax on Demand at 800/549-0676 or via mail at 310/615-4455. CONTACT: John F. Gulick, 703/641-2588 Robert Pickard, 310/615-0311 |
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