Contact: Eileen Cassidy Rivera
Vice President Communications
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VANGENT, INC. WINS TRICARE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY E-COMMERCE OPERATIONAL SYSTEM SUPPORT II CONTRACT

IT Services Leader Will Maintain, Operate and Provide Engineering and Technical Enhancement for TMA E-Commerce System

Arlington, VA, October 22, 2007 - Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and business process outsourcing solutions, today announced it has been awarded the TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) E-Commerce Operational System Support II (EOSS II) contract, valued at $45 million over 5 years.

Under the contract, a team led by Vangent will manage, operate and provide engineering services as well as enhance technical support for the TMA E-Commerce System infrastructure and applications. The work is to be performed on-site at TMA’s facility in Aurora, Colorado. Vangent will serve as the prime contractor, with subcontractors CACI and Planned Systems International (PSI).

TMA-Aurora is responsible for the specification of program requirements, the management of contracts and the recording and reporting of financial transactions associated with the TRICARE purchased health care activities. In support of these operations, TMA-Aurora has implemented the E-Commerce Project, which provides an integrated set of financial, contract management and acquisition support systems.

The scope of work includes system engineering, system analysis, system design, system development and integration, software development, COTS hardware and software procurement, testing (integration, unit, system and user acceptance), documentation development and maintenance, deployment and installation, software and network maintenance, system operations and systems training.

“We are extremely pleased to have been selected by TMA-Aurora to support and enhance their E-Commerce systems,” stated Mac Curtis, President and CEO of Vangent, Inc. “This is a new customer for Vangent, but in many ways it’s an extension of the great work we’ve been doing for other government agencies to enhance and modernize the information systems used to deliver quality health care.  We look forward to working with TMA-Aurora on a mission-critical area to improve both the military and civilian health care delivery system.”   

The EOSS II contract was awarded as a task order under the Department of Defense/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations and Maintenance Services 3 (D/SIDDOMS 3) contract vehicle, a multiple-award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract that provides the MHS, its components and the Department of Veterans Affairs the ability to order services, equipment, materials and facilities to design, test and operate information technology systems and system components.      

Vangent is ranked #15 on Federal Times’ list of Top 100 Professional Services Contractors and #39 on Washington Technology’s 2007 list of Top 100 Federal Government Prime Contactors, topping the list of companies in the IT Services industry sector.      

About Vangent, Inc.
With over 5,500 employees worldwide, Vangent, Inc. is a leading global provider of Consulting, Systems Integration, Human Capital Management and Business Process Outsourcing services to the U.S. federal and international governments, higher education institutions and corporations. Clients include the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, Justice and Labor; the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, as well as Fortune 500 companies.

Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the company has offices throughout the U.S. and in Mexico, the U.K., Canada, Venezuela and Argentina.

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