The Orkand Corporation wins CIOSP II Contract Award.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2001 The Orkand Corporation has received a Chief Information Officers Solutions and Partners (CIOSP CIOSP Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners CIOSP Common Inspection Onsite Software Package II) contract award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ). This is a ten-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. Beginning in 1996, The Orkand Corporation has won project work under the CIOSP I contract as well. Orkand Corporation 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. , Dr. Donald S. Orkand, sees the awards as a significant vote of confidence from NIH. "We've performed important project work for NIH on CIOSP I and in other contract areas. To be selected by NIH -- the premier biomedical research body in the world -- to continue this successful relationship under CIOSP II is quite an honor. It's a testament to the high level of performance we've delivered there for more than twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. ," he said. Like CIOSP I, the CIOSP II contract is a vehicle through which federal agencies may purchase an array of information technology solutions. However, unlike CIOSP I, CIOSP II presents more labor categories, and more services aimed at supporting CIOs in meeting today's policy requirements. CIOSP II is structured around nine task areas: Chief Information Officer Support Clinical Support Contract and task order management Critical infrastructure protection Department of Defense (DOD) program to identify and protect assets critical to the Defense Transportation System. Loss of a critical asset would result in failure to support the mission of a combatant commander. Digital government Enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. 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 Outsourcing The Orkand Corporation offers e-transformation solutions in nine service areas: Electronic Government (e-Gov) Information Assurance Geographic Information Systems Electronic Records Management Systems Engineering/Software Development Data Center Operations/Facilities Management Enterprise Management/Operations Support Deployment/Training Established in 1970, The Orkand Corporation is a recognized leader in providing e-transformation services to assist government clients in achieving their mission-critical goals. The company is the second largest IT service provider to the Department of State and the third largest to the Department of Labor. Headquartered in Falls Church, VA, The Orkand Corporation employs a staff of more than 1000. |
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