SHINE Teams On 10-Year $12B+ IT Services Contract For DoD And Other Federal Agencies

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. March 20, 2009 – SHINE Systems & Technologies (SHINE) accepted an invitation to join TranTech’s ENCORE II Small Business Team.

TranTech, Inc. (www.trantech-inc.com) is a woman-owned Information Technology (IT) Solutions and Services provider located in Alexandria, VA. Founded in 1989, TranTech provides expertise, technical solutions and mission-critical support to Federal, state, and local government clients as well as commercial customers.

TranTech was one of 12 small businesses awarded a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) ENCORE II contract in July 2008. The $12.225B 5-year base contract with 5 one-year options will provide Department of Defense (DoD) and other Federal agencies access to a full-range of IT services across the 20 task areas listed below:

1)    IT Policy and Planning

2)    Integrated Solutions Management

3)    Performance Benchmarking

4)    Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

5)    Requirements Analysis

6)    Market Research and Prototyping

7)    Information & Knowledge Engineering

8)    Custom Application Development

9)    Product Integration

10)  Test and Evaluation (T&E)

11)   Asset Management

12)   Communications Engineering

13)   Security Engineering Certification & Accreditation

14)   Telecommunications Support

15)   Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI)

16)   Web Services

17)   Operations Support

18)   Hardware

19)   Software

20)   Managed Services

Military and DoD customers are using ENCORE II to support DoD’s migration to an integrated and interoperable Global Information Grid (GIG).

SHINE Systems offers complementary and leading expertise in technology integration, workflow, collaboration, and innovation.  Jeff Thomas, SHINE President, accepted the invitation with great anticipation: “SHINE Systems is excited to partner with TranTech and their team to support the success of the DISA ENCORE II contract.  We expect to support our new and current Federal customers in a myriad of service areas.  TranTech extends that opportunity.”

About SHINE

SHINE Systems & Technologies  (SHINE; www.shinesystech.com) is a small business management consultancy headquartered in Charlottesville,VA. SHINE Systems is focused on enabling clients with end-to-end solutions that leverage workflow, technology integration, collaboration, and innovation. Our client base includes the Federal Government, State and Local Governments, Non-Profits, and Commercial firms. SHINE’s subject matter expertise encompasses military and business Intelligence Analysis, Fusion, and Analytics; web and non-web based Software Engineering; Business Process and Workflow Engineering, Re-Engineering, and Optimization; Collaboration and Strategic Planning; the Information Technologies; the Health and Life Sciences; and Intellectual Property management and commercialization.