The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded Creative Computing Solutions (CCSi) the Information Technology Network Operations Virtual Alliance (IT-NOVA) Program Management Office (PMO) contract, valued at $100+ million over 5 years, including option years. Through this task order, under the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) Information Technology Support Services Contract, CCSi, along with subcontractors Booz Allen Hamilton, and CNSI, will provide Program Management Office (PMO) support services to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters and the department's Associated Components.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) today announced the award of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Technical, Management, Development, and Maintenance Support Services task order under the DHS Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contract vehicle. This task order provides C4&IT planning and Enterprise Architecture technical, management, development and maintenance support services to the USCG Enterprise Architecture Team. CCSi will also provide support services to: leverage the use of C4&IT plans and the EA; support policy and planning; and coordinate policy and best practices for C4&IT.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an Operating Division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Creative Computing Solutions (CCSi). This BPA is to facilitate the acquisition of services in support of the HRSA Information Security Program within the Office of Information Technology (OIT). These services will include technical and functional contract management support as well as all activities that lead to the certification and accreditation of Information Systems. Tasks to be performed under this BPA include performing C&A activities on HRSA systems in compliance with NIST guidance and DHHS and HRSA policies and risk assessments of HRSA systems.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the award of a 3-year contract to CCSi for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Wide Area Network Modernization and Support. Under this contract CCSi is responsible for providing network services and technologies to complete the transition of NMFS WAN links to NOAANet and operate the NMFS’ WAN supporting 23 sites nationwide. Modernization activities include implementing the changes needed in the LANs or entry points of LANs to take advantage of the modernized MPLS network.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the award of the Remedial Action Management Program (RAMP) to CCSi under the DHS EAGLE contract. FEMA’s RAMP is a process-driven management support tool, with an associated web-based application, designed to identify and remedy programmatic/systemic response and recovery issues for improvement and highlight smart practices and lessons learned.

CCSi Program Management tasking for the RAMP program includes services to develop monthly reports from existing web application data, develop briefings to senior management regarding status of ongoing issues, develop a monthly newsletter highlighting significant and recently resolved RAMP events, and assist the Program Manager in coordinating, overseeing, and troubleshooting remediation action plans, and coordinating facilitators to identify issues following disaster response operations and training exercises. Other tasking includes: Application Management – to conduct routine maintenance of the RAMP web application; Process Improvement – to review the overall RAMP process, making recommendations for improvement, and updating existing RAMP process literature and handbooks; and Training – to support training needs of those closely involved with RAMP.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) has been awarded a task order for Business Activities Support Services against the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contract. To ensure the success of current and future programs, TSA requires a Contractor to provide Business Activities Support Services including communication support, strategic planning support, and financial management support for the Information Technology Division (ITD) Business Activities Office (BAO). Successful execution of these activities maximizes productivity, efficiency, and further promotes the TSA mission through effective IT products and services.

CCSi has been tasked to perform Business Activities Support Services and provide Communication support skill sets, Financial Management support skill sets, and Strategic Planning support skill sets in support of the ITD and TSA mission. CCSi shall perform the technical and functional activities required to include productivity and management methods such as development of plans, progress and status reporting, financial analysis and program reviews. For the performance of these services CCSi has selected ICF International of Fairfax, VA as our team member.

Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) has been awarded an Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contract task order to provide direct support to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) in achieving full certification and accreditation (C&A) of systems overseen by the Deepwater Program Office. Certification primarily addresses both software and hardware safeguards, but also encompasses all aspects of security to include procedural, physical, and personnel security. CCSi has teamed with EDO Corporation’s Professional and Engineering Services Sector in support of this task order.

Accreditation is the authorization and approval granted to an IT system to be used in an operational environment. The final accreditation of a system must be approved by the USCG’s Certification and Designated Approving Authority, which uses a set of require­ments to assess the residual risk. The C&A process is a manual audit of policies, procedures, controls, and contingency planning. The outcome of the C&A process is to develop a collection of documents (a C&A package) that describe the security posture of the systems, evaluate its risks, and make recommendations to correct its deficiencies. USCG systems are required to complete a C&A and an annual self-assessment.

Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) will provide technical consulting and professional facilitation services to support the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA’s) enterprise architectural efforts managed by the agency’s CIO. This Enterprise Architecture task order is awarded to CCSi under Functional Category 5, Management Support Services, of the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contract. In accordance with guidance from the Federal Chief Information Officers Council, TSA includes in its Enterprise Architecture both models of its current business and technology environments (the current architecture) and the future business and technology models needed to improve performance and achieve strategic goals (the target architecture). CCSi will develop and document in collaboration with TSA, their full enterprise architecture in accordance with federal guidelines using the MEGA ® suite of enterprise architecture design tools. CCSi has teamed with Mega Business Consulting and Stanley Associates for the performance of these services.

The target TSA Enterprise Architecture will provide an integrated framework for evolving or maintaining existing information technology and acquiring new information technology to achieve the agency's strategic goals and information resources management goals, as mandated by the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 and in accordance with the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Reference Models and the Federal Enterprise Architecture framework (FEAF). CCSi will plan, manage and execute government integrated product teams (IPTs) and workshops, and will facilitate groups composed of government civilians and government contractors.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has awarded Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) a task order under the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contract to provide Currency and Monetary Instrument Report (CMIR) services. CCSi will provide scanning and on-line data transcription/entry services necessary to support The Enforcement Communications System (TECS) for those CBP and other Federal offices that are not presently equipped to process their own TECS-related applications. Services include reviewing documents/images for completeness and correctness; interpreting the documents to determine data to be entered; analyzing data as required by applicable procedures, and transcribing the data. For performance of CMIR activities CCSi has teamed with ITS Corporation (ITS). ITS has a legacy relationship with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operational organizations dating back to 1983, when it began its work for the U.S. Customs Service.

CCSi was recently awarded a new contract supporting the Office of the Army Surgeon General and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. CCSi has been performing these services since August 2006. The DOD Mental Health Task Force contract was established in response to a Congressional mandate to examine issues relating to mental health in the DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As a part of this effort, CCSi works with the Task Force to conduct a comprehensive assessment of mental health systems in the DOD and VA and formulate recommendations for improvement to be submitted to the Secretary of Defense.

Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. announced today that the General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded it a Financial and Business Solutions (FABS) contract vehicle. The contract is effective beginning December 22, 2006, and continues through December 21, 2011.

CCSi has recently been awarded a Task Order to provide call center support services to business customers and end users of Public and Indian Housing Information Center (PIC). This Task Order work will be added to CCSi’s existing contract to manage the Real Estate Assessment’s Center (REAC) Technical Assistance Center (TAC) Hotline. The PIC involves providing information and technical assistance for (1) the Rental Housing Assistance process (2) the Inventory Management System, which includes the inventory of units and tenants organic to the Public and Native American Programs, (3) the Enterprise Income Verification and Resource Allocation applications, which include capital funds, general grants, and operating funds and (4) the Housing Choice Voucher Program and Voucher Management System. The TAC provides the first line of contact for all REAC and PIC incoming Inquiries (via telephone, web, e-mail, mail, and facsimiles). PIC inquiries will represent approximately 100-150 additional calls, emails, and correspondence every business day. There are workload fluctuations throughout the workday which affect the nature of the TAC inquiries and the varying starting and ending times of business days across supported time zones. There are also fluctuations in workload caused by business requirements (submission schedules), process and systems changes. PIH-REAC Technical Assistance Center operation hours are weekdays, 7:00am-8:30pm EST

CCSi has recently been awarded a Task Order by the Department of Education (ED) under its Blanket Purchase Agreement to formalize Enterprise Data Management (EDM) within the office of Federal Student Aid (FSA). The EDM initiative will provide efficient and effective administration of data and meta data, and, once implemented, will also support business functions by emphasizing data as an enterprise asset. EDM will be developed and executed to deliver to FSA measurable improvements in the areas of data quality and data consistency. EDM will be focused on an overall approach for streamlining and integrating systems to ensure that accurate and consistent data is exchanged between FSA’s customers, partners, and compliance and oversight organizations. In addition, the CCSi team will assist Federal Student Aid in documenting and developing best practices regarding Enterprise Data Management. The Goal of EDM initiative is to implement an enterprise data administration model, which is comprised of the following elements; data standardization, data governance, metadata management, and data model management. Over the next several years, Federal Student Aid will be standardizing metadata for all of its major systems development initiatives.

The Department of Homeland Security today announced the winners in the Small Business category for the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contract. Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) was one of only 28 companies to receive a small business award on this $45B contract, and one of only three winners in Functional Category 5, Management Support Services. The Department of Homeland Security is comprised of 22 agencies, with varying legacy IT systems in place. The EAGLE contract will assist DHS in consolidating and streamlining IT operations across the Department. EAGLE is divided into two size standards (full and open and small business) and five service categories: 1) infrastructure engineering design, development, implementation and integration, 2) operations and maintenance, 3) independent test, validation and verification, 4) software design, and 5) management support services. For more information please see CCSi's EAGLE Contract Website.

CCSi’s healthcare team was recently awarded three new contracts supporting the Office of the Army Surgeon General and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. The DoD Mental Health Task Force contract was established in response to a Congressional mandate to examine issues relating to mental health in the DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As a part of this effort, the team will work with the Task Force to conduct a comprehensive assessment of mental health systems in the DoD and VA and formulate recommendations for improvement to be submitted to the Secretary of Defense. For the DoD Health Policy contract, the healthcare team will work closely with a variety of committees under Health Affairs to conduct studies, prepare reports and other documents, and provide meeting support necessary to enhance the health care provided by the DoD’s Military Health System. The third award received by the healthcare team encompasses program support, analysis, and assessment for both the Defense Health Board and Army Blood Program. For the Defense Health Board (formerly the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board), the healthcare team will provide advisory and administrative support, database development and management, and website maintenance related to the development and promulgation of recommendations on a wide range of medical issues. For the Army Blood Program, the team will assist in the development and implementation of standardized operating procedures for blood donation and transfusion centers.

CCSi won a Task Order under our Department of Education Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to provide Visioning for the agency’s ADvance solution. Working collaboratively with the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), CCSi is creating enterprise visioning documentation that will guide the modernization of their front-end operations. CCSi’s Project Manager for this effort is Anna Jaynes, an experienced RUP facilitator. She is being assisted in this effort by Vishal Jain, who brings his RUP experience from CCSi’s MyHealth eVet contract at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Karen Triplett, RN, MSN has joined CCSi as our new Director of Healthcare Programs, bringing with her years of experience working in healthcare. Ms. Triplett offers more than 20 years of health care clinical and information systems experience in the diverse fields of nursing, management, research, informatics, education, and business. Her focus over the last ten years has been commercial and Federal health care consulting in the area of information systems. She holds Master of Science degrees in Nursing Administration and Nursing Education from George Mason University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from George Mason University. Since joining, Ms. Triplett has built CCSi's Department of Defense Healthcare Team, including: Severine Bennett, MAM, whose background is in DoD event management, logistics and facilitation; Thomas Burke, MD, MPH, a physician consultant who held an active duty senior position developing mental health policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; Deirdre Farrell, MA, who brings 10 years of research experience in developmental psychology, adult psychiatry, and healthcare quality management; Barbara Happ, RN, PhD, who has over 30 years of experience in medical research, informatics, education and consulting; Katherine Surman, RN, MSA, who offers more than 25 years of experience in clinical nursing and healthcare management in both civilian and military settings; Carolyn Reyes, MPH, who brings over 7 years of healthcare research and policy consulting experience; Lisa Jarrett, BSW, who brings over 18 years of healthcare consulting experience, focusing on analytics and functional healthcare consulting; Meredith Richards, MA, who holds Masters degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology; and Abigail Wilson, MPH, who has over ten years of health-related research experience with an emphasis on public health, epidemiology, education, laboratory research, and health policy.

On May 31st CCSi completed our special project to provide emergency support to those affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This project was an add-on to CCSi's Technical Assistance Center support contract at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Through this special contract CCSi was able to assist tens of thousands of hurricane sufferers in their search for new housing.

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid announced today that CCSi has been awarded a task order under the FSA ITSS blanket purchase agreement to provide full time support in both web site content development and maintenance, along with related security administration duties. The Office of Federal Student Aid oversees and administers all Federally funded and Federally insured student aid programs for students seeking financial assistance for post-secondary education. Our task order supports the day-to-day and long range activities of six FSA websites.

CCSi was awarded a new contract to develop the Second Phase of the Licensing Serial Release Testing Information System (LSRTIS). This contract award reflects a better recognition for the unparalleled, customer oriented consulting services provided during and after the LSRTIS Phase I implementation. The Center for Veterinary Biologics, CVB, is the regulatory authority for commercial veterinary biologics that are manufactured and marketed in the United States. LSRTIS is a system that is being developed to provide the business users with a variety of tools to support their business operations. Phase I of the system provided tools to centralize the various business processes that contributed to licensing a wide variety of biological products. Phase II of this system will integrate the testing operations that support the licensing operations and post licensing support testing for a variety of biologic products. This Phase also supports the Regulatory Operations that involve the Serial Release Operations that CVB monitors for compliance.

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced November 10, 2005 the award of contracts totaling $18.6 million to four groups of health care and health information technology organizations to develop prototypes for a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) architecture. The contracts awarded to these four consortia will move the nation toward the President’s goal of personal electronic health records by creating a uniform architecture for health care information that can follow consumers throughout their lives.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the Public and Indian Housing – Real Estate Assessment Center (PIH-REAC) Technical Assistance Center Hotline contract to Creative Computing Solutions, Inc.. The Technical Assistance Center facilitates communication between PIH-REAC and its business partners. The three year contract has a start date of November 29, 2005 and a contract value of over $4 million. CCSi engaged subcontract partner QSS Group, Inc. of Lanham, MD. Our task order supports the day-to-day and long range activities of six FSA websites.

The Department of Education, Federal Student Aid (FSA), Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) awarded CCSi a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for Information Technology Support Services (ITSS) on September 20, 2005. The CCSi award included all four designated IT functional areas:

• IT Planning and Investment, Process Integration, and Oversight
• Enterprise IT Services
• Enterprise IT Management
• Enterprise IT Application Development

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) awarded their My HealtheVet Project Management Office Support Services contract to Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. My HealtheVet (MHV) is an online portal used by Veterans and their families to manage their personal health information and connect to VHA service providers. The one year contract has a start date of September19, 2005 and a contract value of $3 million. CCSi engaged subcontract partners Apptis, Inc. of Falls Church, VA, and Learning Systems International (LSI) of Washington, D.C. to assist on MHV tasks. Under this contract, CCSi will work with the VHA to improve MHV, adding valuable functionality to the existing customer services tool.

Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. announced today that the General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded it a Management, Organization and Business improvement Services (MOBIS) contract vehicle. The contract is effective beginning August 15, 2005 and continues through August 14, 2010.

Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) announced today that it has been awarded a prime contractor position on the U.S. Navy’s Seaport Enhanced procurement vehicle. The contract is worth a total of $.3 billion annually. Competing in three out of the seven geographical zones and four out of the 21 functional areas determined by the Naval Sea System Command (NAVSEA), the team assembled by CCSi includes Perot Systems Government Services, Data Systems Analysts Inc., Learning Systems International Inc., Kirkpatrick Consulting, Pappas Associates and CryptoLex Inc.

To implement the findings of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Loan Administration redesign project, Creative Computing Solutions Inc. (CCSi) was awarded a five-year contract, with a life-cycle cost estimate of $12 million. The agreement, only recently disclosed, was awarded through a competitive COMMITS procurement on June 4, 2004. It places CCSi in charge of the redesign of the existing Veteran Benefits Administration (VBA) Loan Administration system. Fidelity National Financing Inc. (NYSE: FNF), a company that currently serves 51 percent of the mortgage servicing industry, will be CCSi’s major partner in this project.