U.S. Navy BUMED Extends Contract with VFA For Capital Planning and Management Solutions.

Contract Bolsters VFA's Position as Leading Provider of Facilities Capital Planning Solutions for the Federal Market

WASHINGTON and BOSTON -- VFA, Inc., the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management, today announced that the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) has renewed its contract with VFA for facilities capital planning and management solutions. Under the current contract term, valued at over $2 million, BUMED will continue to license VFA.facility software for capital planning and asset management, and VFA will provide condition assessments of 15 million square feet of BUMED facilities.

VFA has provided VFA.facility software and facility condition assessment services for BUMED since 2003, and has previously assessed more than 62 million square feet of real property for BUMED worldwide.

"VFA solutions play a key role in supporting BUMED's capital planning initiatives," said Dan Taber, Facilities Program Manager, Navy Medicine East at BUMED. "In addition to providing detailed data about facility assets and sophisticated analytic tools for capital planning, VFA solutions have helped BUMED to streamline the process of creating DD1391 Project Request forms for Command approval, and to integrate facility data with the Internet Navy Facilities Assets Data Store (iNFADS) database, the official record of the Navy's real property assets."

"VFA looks forward to continuing to support BUMED in its mission to safeguard the health of Navy and Marine Corps personnel worldwide by providing the agency with the detailed asset data and planning tools it needs to make optimal decisions about its investment in capital assets," said Jerry Kokos, President and CEO of VFA.

In addition to the U.S. Navy, VFA's roster of clients in the U.S. federal government includes such organizations as the General Services Administration (GSA), the U.S. Army, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

About The U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

The Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) is the headquarters command for Navy Medicine. In support of its mission to safeguard the health of Navy and Marine Corps personnel, BUMED directs the worldwide medical and dental services and facilities maintained by the Department of the Navy. BUMED provides healthcare services to 700,000 active-duty Navy and Marine Corps members and 2.6 million retired service and family members while supporting contingency, humanitarian and joint operations around the world.

About VFA

Headquartered in Boston, VFA, Inc. is the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management. VFA's Capital Planning and Management Solution (CPMS[TM]) uniquely combines facility assessment services, Web-based software, and business consulting services to enable clients to manage every stage of the capital asset lifecycleCofrom requirements gathering and long-term planning to capital budget creation and spend management. VFA has helped more than 300 organizations in education, federal, state and local government, healthcare and corporate markets to strategically manage more than two billion square feet of real estate. For more information, please call 800-693-3132 or visit http://www.vfa.com.