IRS selects Telos IT solution; Telos to provide infrastructure for tax modernization.ASHBURN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1997--Telos Corporation has been selected by the Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service to provide computing systems and servers for the Treasury Distributed Processing Infrastructure (TDPI TDPI Treasury Distributed Processing Infrastructure ) project. Under a one-year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. ) through 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. , Telos will offer discounted prices on a standard suite of equipment to thousands of IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. and Treasury offices nationwide, including district offices and service centers. The TDPI project consists of nine competitive procurements to support the IRS tax modernization goals. The BPA approach was chosen by the IRS as an efficient means of responding to urgent requirements of their user community. Category II of the TDPI project as granted to Telos is intended to provide automation support for the office environment. Categories I and II in combination replace the previous five year TMAC TMAC Tracy McGrady (basketball player) TMAC Tobymac (christian singer) TMAC Technology, Management, & Analysis Corporation TMAC Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (Treasury Multi-user Acquisition Contract). Due to the open-ended nature of the agreement, the IRS has not assigned a value to the procurement. Telos is basing first year revenue projections on the proposal evaluation quantity of $17.5 million. The Telos solution is completely open system compliant and consists of high quality and reliable products including: Microsoft Windows NT BackOffice software, Digital Equipment Corporation Pentium Pro workstations and servers, MTS MetroBook computer notebooks, and peripherals from Exabyte, MaxOptics, Iiyama and Lexmark. As the systems integrator, Telos will ensure that the products are compatible with each other and with existing products in the IRS network environment. The broad selection of products on Telos GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. Schedule will enable IRS offices to tailor appropriate systems to their requirements and budget. Telos continually updates its GSA Schedule which gives all government customers access to the best of currently available commercial technologies. Under the Blanket Purchase Agreement, Telos will also provide services during the ordering, installation and post-delivery phases to ease the users transition to a new system and to minimize any inconvenience. Telos will employ its Help Desk and nationwide field engineering capability to provide an immediate response and quick resolution to user inquiries and for ongoing support. Telos president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. John Wood stated, "Telos has a vested and strategic interest in working with the IRS to build a superior infrastructure that through automating tax returns will achieve their important objectives to reduce taxpayer effort, increase tax compliance and decrease errors. This project capitalizes on many of our program management, systems integration and field services talents and we hope will offer an opportunity to showcase other capabilities to this important new customer." Telos Corporation has provided information technology services for 30 years, specializing in life cycle engineering and network-based solutions for governments and industry worldwide. Telos provides technical services, network security, network and systems integration and unique products that include web-enabled software for data integration and workflow, training and simulation software, portable workstations and automated message handling systems. In the past two years, Telos has won major new business with the Immigration and Naturalization Service Noun 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service - an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States INS , U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Army, U.S. Courts, and Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control . The company is on the winning team for many of the major procurements issued in recent months including ITOP (Transportation), CIO-SP CIO-SP Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners (National Institute of Health), ITSS (Justice), JIEO and ITSEC See NCSC. (Defense Information Systems Agency), Air Force Workstation and MISTS (Air Force). The company's largest customers are the Department of Defense, National Aeronautical and Space Administration, and Immigration and Naturalization Services. Telos is headquartered in Northern Virginia. CONTACT: Telos Corp., Ashburn Suzanne Bakewell, 703/724-3767 suzanne.bakewell@telos.com world-wide web address: http://www.telos.com |
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