NEW YORK and DENVER, Jan. 26, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Zanett, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZANE) announced today that its Paragon Dynamics Government Solutions Group (PDI) is part of a winning team recently awarded the Classified IDIQ (Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity) contract to provide IT services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under EAGLE (Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge).
The EAGLE program will run for five years with two one-year renewal options and a total ceiling of up to $45 billion. This contract will enable the DHS's 22 agencies to more efficiently procure IT support and leverage their collective buying power. Paragon Dynamics is part of a team that will supply services under two of five awarded task order categories below:
FC1 - Infrastructure Engineering Design, Development,
Implementation and Integration
FC2 - Operations and Maintenance
FC3 - Independent Test, Evaluation, Validation and
Verification
FC4 - Software Development
FC5 - Management Support Services
Paragon will perform work under FC4 and FC5 above.
Doug Hartmann, president of Paragon Dynamics, stated, "We're excited about the opportunity to collaborate with our Team Leader in this opportunity and together, we look forward to working closely with the Department of Homeland Security to support their expanding and increasingly important mission."
"Our relationship with this HSHC (highly-skilled, highly-classified) team will enable Paragon to broaden our own impact on the mission-critical activities of DHS in providing essential national security to the American people. As a preferred-systems, software and mission engineering solutions integrator, Paragon is poised to play a significant role on the EAGLE team. We look to this relationship as a catalyst for growth in the latter half of 2007 and beyond," concluded Mr. Hartmann.
ABOUT ZANETT (www.zanett.com)
Zanett is an information technology ("IT") company that provides customized, mission-critical IT solutions to Fortune 500 corporations, mid-market companies, and classified government agencies involved in Homeland Defense and Homeland Security. The Company operates in two segments: Government Solutions and Commercial Solutions. The Government Solutions segment specializes in providing advanced software and satellite engineering services with domain area expertise in the realm of classified geospatial data exploitation and representation as well as IT infrastructure related to Homeland Defense and Homeland Security.
The Commercial Solutions segment provides Management Consulting services and delivers custom business solutions that integrate and implement Oracle's full suite of product offerings - Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Seibel, together with associated Oracle Fusion technologies. A wide range of delivery expertise is provided to clients, including Managed Services, Business Intelligence, Web and Portal Development, and Middleware Technologies.
Zanett also provides full infrastructure and application hosting, utilizing both local resources and international resources, remote and onsite DBA support, all on a 24x7 basis.
Zanett is an Oracle Partner and member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, a global business network who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Only Partners who are able to demonstrate the highest level of product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to business with Oracle qualify for the Oracle Certified Advantage Partner level.
Zanett currently employees over 210 people nationwide and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Philippines, and Denver. Founded in 2000, Zanett is listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol ZANE.
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