MAXIMUS Wins $5.78 Million 'US' Family Responsibility Office Contract with the Province of Ontario.

RESTON, Va. -- MAXIMUS (NYSE:MMS), through its wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary THEMIS, has been selected by the Ministry of Community and Social Services, Family Responsibility Office in the Province of Ontario, Canada, to provide a new integrated case management solution for their maintenance enforcement program to enforce child and spousal support payments, which have been ordered through the courts. This four-year contract is valued at $7.25 million (Canadian)/$5.78 million (US). The case management solution's maintenance and support component may be extended up to an additional two years.

Ontario has the largest single maintenance enforcement program in Canada, with more than 180,000 cases. The new application to be customized from British Columbia's Family Maintenance Enforcement Program (FMEP) application, will greatly improve productivity and customer service thereby resulting in significant cost savings for Ontario. With the addition of this contract, more than half of FMEP cases in Canada will be managed using software created by THEMIS.

MAXIMUS, through its British Columbia subsidiaries, also has significant projects in British Columbia: the FMEP Project and the Health Benefits Operations Project. In January 2004, British Columbia extended THEMIS's contract to provide FMEP services through March 2008, which includes enrollment, monitoring and enforcement of filed orders, account management, case management, and client communications. THEMIS has been providing these FMEP services in British Columbia since June 1988. Additionally, in November 2004, British Columbia finalized a $268 million contract with the Company to provide health benefit operations administrative services. The Company launched full operation of this program in April 2005.

Lynn Davenport, CEO of MAXIMUS, commented, "This new contract reinforces our expansion in Canada and complements our current projects in British Columbia. We are excited to work in partnership with the Province of Ontario on this important initiative."

MAXIMUS is one of America's leading government services companies providing consulting, systems, and outsourcing services. The Company has approximately 5,100 employees located in more than 280 offices in the United States, Canada, England, and Australia. In 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004, MAXIMUS was selected by Forbes Magazine as one of the Best 200 Small Companies in America for that year. MAXIMUS was selected by Business Week Magazine as one of the 100 Best Hot Growth Small Companies in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. Additionally, MAXIMUS is included in the Russell 2000 Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index.

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