Mr. Loren Hess lhessumi@msn.com Upper Mohawk, Inc. 1988 20 5 63.9 Upper Mohawk,Inc. is an Native American owned small 8a company that was started in 1988.The past five years the growth of UMI has been steady through the awarding of both government and commercial long and short term contracts. The first large government contract was in 1996 as a teaming effort with United Defense LP to provide Cost Estimating support to the Army for their Crusader Program. 1997 UMI was awarded a subcontract to provide operational support for the magnetic tape library at the Defense Enterprise Computing Center (DECC). 1998 UMI became involved in providing programming support to develop and maintain a Management Information Systems for one of the largest Native Americam casinos in the country. In 1999 UMI was a member of the Logicon team that provided Y2K IV and V support io the Department of Interior. UMI also contracted with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to roll out several hundred PCs to the various tribes and provide support in set-up, loading software and converting and transferring data from the old systems to the new. In the year 2000 UMI contracted with the Naval Center for Cost Analysis to provide data collection and analysis support by designing a functional software cost estimating database specifically designed for estimating and analysis of Navy programs and collecting new data from key Navy contractors/programs for use in the Navy software database (SWDB). UMI also won a major contract to develop and implement comprehensive training in support of the Dept. of Interiors Office of Special Trust(OST) Trust Management Improvement Project. UMI also became an 8a program participant and a protege of TRW under the DoD Mentor-Protege Program. UMI expanded into larger offices at the main headquarters in Beavercreek,OH and opened offices in Titusville,FL; Laurel,MD; and Albuquerque,NM. This year UMI is preparing a proposal to revise its current GSA Schedule to reflect growth by adding additional labor categories . All the above mentioned projects have grown and have lead to increases in revenues and staff. UMI does financial and contract mgmt by helping customers develop a winning proposal through developing databases for cost estimates and looking at cost realism. Using costs processes that will support sound decision making. UMI does pricing and cost analysis estimating through effective Price based Acquisition (PBA) process and collection,commercial pricing practices, use of market research, comparative pricing techniques, Parametrics pricing methodologies ( Price and SEER parametrics tools), and risk assessment. Umi does quality analysis and testing. Most recently in data collection for the Naval Center For Cost Analysis. Mainly through identifying programs with unique identifiers and cleaning up data errors as well as doing quality analysis on new data that was submitted by providers/contractors. UMI has performed Independent Verification and VAlidation for the Dept. of Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Systems were selected for review and systems owners notified as to what was needed for the verification process (such as documentation for the selected systems, test results,appropriate availability of personnel who maintain the systems). UMI teams interview and brief the system owners as to what will take place and the IV and V is carried out in an efficient and professional way. At the end an outbriefing is done with the system owner and staff about the results and a proper report is prepared. UMI has provided software maintainence and modifications for the Air Force Material Systems Group (MSG) software factory at Wright-Patterson AFB RDB system. RDB is a major logistics management system encompassing the automated functions of the materials requirments process. The system runs on Amdahl mainframes containing 4,000,000 lines of code in Cobol. UMI support included system engineering, software analysis; systems requirements analysis; systems schematics examination; database admin.; documentation development,design and review. UMI also has a backup role in running the production programs that load the data to the database and produce the production reports. Also on this project a UMI team member developed a quick reference guides for printing files/members from the online in character or hexadecimal format, autotrans identifiers, 3380/3390 disk characteristics, File Transfer and other hard to find data needed by programmers that evaluated converting RDB from Datacom to Oracle. UMI has spent many hours in classroom trainings developing and teaching college level courses in the belief that one hour spent in a throughly researched well thought out class pays huge dividends over pure on-the-job-training. Some courses UMI teaches are: laws and regulations; the estimating process; cost modeling; Parametric estimating; risk analysis; documenting estimates; Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV)-one day workshop. UMI has provided operationa support for the magnetic tape library at the Defense Enterprise Computing Center (DECC) in Jacksonville,FL. Allaspects were handled from tape storage and retrival, inventory and scratch tape management,cleaning and certification, shipment and receipt of tapes and management of off-site tape storage. Umi has been involved with providing computer programming support to develop and maintain a MIS system for one of the largest Native American casinos in our country. The system provided an automated management reporting system and tracks millions of dollars in gaming revenue to insure compliance with regulatory reporting requirements. 24.8 UMI operations began in 1994 with a staff of two the President of UMI, Ken Barnes and an administrative assistant. 1997-1998 the staff growth went from 12-14 people with no turnover.This was mainly due to the UMI personnel being assigned in support of long term projects. In 1999, UMI lost 3 employees due to a contract completion. The year 2000 saw turnovers in the main headquarters administrative support personnel as well as the loss of two positions due to the completion of IT support contracts with the Dept. of Interior and Burea of Indian Affairs. In 2001 due to project completions and lack of new work three more postions were lost. The majority of the losses expirenced by UMI in the past five years has been mainly due to project completions and administrative staff turnover.The turnover rate should continue to decline as the staff increases and new opportunities increase. 37 UMI has based the growth of personnel on contract aquisitions. In 1994 UMI developed an automated material,odering, and tracking system for an Air National Guard activity which resulted in the hiring of 4 computer programmers on a project basis. In 1996 UMI egan support on its first large government program. It was a subcontract with United Defense LP to lead the team in provding Cost Estimating support to the Army Crusader Progam. UMI started with 8 cost estimating personnel which reduce to 4 as start up was completed.In 1997 through the award of a subcontract to provide operational support for the magnetic tape library at the Defense Enterprise Computing Center (DECC)in Jacksonville,FL., UMI provided 3 tape librarians. also in 1997 the main office staff personnel increased from one to two. In 1998 UMI hired a Vice President /contracts manager. In 1999 UMI hired a training Support Services Manager to assist with developing and marketing UMI training support services. A contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs added six computer and network technicians to the personnel roster. In 2000 more contracts garnered from DECC Jacksonville to enhance and develop comprehensive disaster recovery plans added 3 new IT professionals to our company. In 2001 a contract with the Department of Interior in support of the Office of Special Trust (OST) Trust management Improvement Project, led to the most significant increase of UMI staffing with 10 new training professionals and ten administrative assistants and one person added to the UMI office adminisrative staff. UMI has a highly professional and diverse staff of 39 people.Backgrounds include administrative support, Information Technology, Cost Estimating/Financial Management and Training. UMI is supported by a headquarters staff consisting of the President, Vice President/Contracts Manager, office Administrator and Receptionist. The Cost Estimating/Financial Management staff have over 20 years of DoD cost estimating/cost analysis experience. UMI has a staff of nine highly specialized administrative support personnel who assist in the management of the Trust Improvement Program Training. The TMIP is also supported by the UMI web developer/database manager and network analyst. UMI's staff members are active in various professional organizations. Ninety-three percent of the UMI personnel have a collge degree and twenty-one percent are holding advanced degrees. We have employees with microsoft certifications. We have employees with Novell certifications. We have a gov't certified disaster recovery specialist. Vacation is accrued on per pay period basis. We offer 15 days from hire through year 5. We offer 20 days from years 6 through 10 and we offer 25 days for over ten years service. 40 Upper Mohawk employees normally work a forty hour week.A contract may require more than forty hours to completion in a week thereby requiring the issuing of comp time. www.uppermohawkinc.com Outstanding Supplier for 1998 www.uppermohawkinc.com none none none none www.uppermohawkinc.com Titan Systems Corp. www.titan.com Air Force/Sumaria Systems October 2,1995-September 30, 2000 800000 software programming, maintenance, and technical support services. Upper Mohawk, Inc. (UMI) provides software programming and technical support services to Air Force Material Systems Group (MSG) Software Factory at Wright-Patterson AFB for the RDB System. The RDB is a major logistics management system encompassing the automated functions of the Material Requirements process. The system is used to manage almost 550,000 spare and repair parts and equipment items. The system runs on Amdahl mainframes and contains over 4,000,000 lines of code in Cobol. UMI support consists of software analysis, systems engineering support, software verification testing, systems requirements analysis, systems schematics examination, database admin., documentation, design and review. Also UMI performs feasibilty studies, cost benefits analysis and general surveys of systems operations. Ms Carmen Powell Program Director 4375 Chidlaw Rd Bldg 262,Rm N026 WPAFB Ohio 45433-5006 USA 937.257.5745 937.656.2117 carmen.powell@wpafb.af.mil US Army/United Defense LP October 1, 1996-June 30, 2000 6500000 parametric cost estimating, Life Cycle Cost analysis and Cost as an Independent Variable Applying the acquistion management concepts of Design to Cost/Life Cycle Cost (DTC/LCC) and Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV), UMI played a critical role in establishing a high level of confidencein overal LCC management. UMI with its team of subcontractors provided risk management, DTC/LCC and CAIV support to the Crusader project. The Crusader is a 155-mm self propelled howitzer. UMI also led the transition to parametric cost estimating for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the program.This included training all members of the team on the techniques of parametric cost estimating and the use of parametric estimating software tools. Mr. Roland Enno Technical Manager 4800 East River Road Minneapolis Minnisota 554221-1498 USA 612.572.7025 612.572.3322 Naval Center for Cost Analysis October 6, 2000-October 5, 2002 520000 software data collection, database development Umi has been contracted to update existing data records collected by NCCA during prior research,collect software development weapon systems Navy data and identify potential new sources for future data collection efforts. UMI also is to develop a functional software cost estimating database specifically designed for software estimating and analysis on Navy programs; create an automated interface that will intergrate the data collection process with the Excel spreadsheets currently being used to perform analysis by NCCA; collect new software data from key Navy contractors/programs for use in the Navy Software Database (SWDB). Umi is reviewing the data obtained from the previous analysis and reporting and trackingdiscrepancies by program at the program and CS-CI level; identifying all anomolies with the data; and documenting all resolutions made with the contractors to correct the data. Ms Pamela Johnson Program Manager Naval Center for Cost Analysis 4290 Mount Vernon Dr NW Washington DC 20393-5444 USA 202.764.2685 202.764.2750 Technical Support-Network (Lan/Wan/Web)-Telecommunications support Navy September 11, 2000-september 30,2003 3000000 network support, IT support, disaster recovery UMI provides Telecommunications, Networking and IT support to the Defense Enterprise Computer center (DECC) Detachment in Jacksonville,FL. UMI tasking for Telecommunications includes: analysis, network troubleshooting, documentation, services, installation and configuration, procurement and repair. Tasking for network support consists of:installation and configuration of hardware and software, network ops and support, documentation services and web site services. The support computers are on a variety of platforms that include Win 95/98/NT4.0/2000, NT Server 4.0, UNIX, and DOS. UMI also conducts product evaluations, diagnostic tests, and reports the results to DECC. UMI also provides technical support to the Stock Point Logistics Intergrated Control Environment (SPLICE) which was migated to the TANDEM systems at DECC. UMI supports Recovery Application including: Customer Assistance, Help desk to resolve TANDEM problems, and provide routine operating and error handling. UMI also helps support all areas of System Maintainance as well. Mr. Dave Quirk technical director DECC DET Jacksonville Bldg 919 Langley St PO Box 70 NAS Jacksonville Florida 32212-0070 USA 904.542.6710 904.542.6912 Quirkd@ jax.disa.mil Mr. Loren Hess Vice President\Contracts Manager 1321 Research Park Drive Beavercreek Ohio 45432 USA 937.427.4360 EXT.104 937.427-4348 lhessumi@msn.com www.uppermohawkinc.com/gsa.htm www.uppermohawkinc.com Minimum of ten years general experience in business administration and six years specialized experience supervising and managing large projects with multiple tasks orders. Must be able to exercise independent judgement and apply problem solving skills to complex technical and managerial problems. Bachelors degree or equivalent. Primary POC on assigned projects.Provides coordination and liason with customer management personnel. Supervises personnel assigned to the project. Responsible for oversight of overall progress on the project to include performance against budget and schedule. 106.56 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 119.35 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of seven years general experience in business administration and five years specialized experience supervising and managing large projects with multiple tasks orders. Must be able to exercise independent judgement and apply problem solving skills to complex technical and managerial problems. Bachelors degree or equivalent. Primary POC on assigned projects.Provides coordination and liason with customer management personnel. Supervises personnel assigned to the project. Responsible for oversight of overall progress on the project to include performance against budget and schedule. 98.33 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 110.12 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of seven years general experience in business administration or in a relevant technical area and five years specialized experience supervising and managing large projects. Able to exercise independent judgement and apply problem solving skills to complex technical and managerial problems. Bachelor's Degree or equivalent. Serves as the primary POC on an assigned task order.Provides coordination and liason with customer management personnel. Supervises personnel assigned to the task. Responsible for oversight of overall progress on the task to include performance against budget and schedule. 77.11 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 86.36 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of ten years experience in field of expertise with at least six years of concentrated exprience in the required discipline. Bachelor's Degree Shall serve as a senior technical advisor with detailed knowledge of the technical areas required by the customer. Be able to produce or review substantive and complex technical documentation reflecting detailed knowledge of the area of expertise. 98.33 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 110.12 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of ten years experience performing complex software engineering tasks for the design and development of new or existing software. Bachelor's Degree Be knowledgeable of software engineering processes involved in the development or modification software systems.Able to translate customer requirements into information technology solutions using state of the art informtion system equipment and software. Be able to use computer technology abd computer programing languages and procedures to develop system specifications to solve customer problems; develop and execute system performance models; develop and implement applications using mathematical and statistical formulas ; and to develop executive and utility software. 55.37 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 62.02 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of eight years experience in the computer field and at least six years experience implementing information systems, including conducting requirements analysis, developing specifications, designing code, developing documentation, and testing. Knowledgeable of database management systems, statistical packages, GUI, object-oriented, high level programming languages, standard utilites and job control language. Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Sciences, or Engineering or equivalent. Conducts requirements analysis and other management studies to analyze feasability of possible solutions and recommend appropriate solutions. Designs programs, performs software intergration and systems tests. Prepares program specifications and manuals. 48.65 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 54.48 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of eight years experience in the computer field and at least six years experience implementing information systems, including conducting requirements analysis, developing specifications, designing code, developing documentation, and testing. Knowledgeable of database management systems, statistical packages, GUI, object-oriented, high level programming languages, standard utilites and job control language. Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Sciences, or Engineering or equivalent. Conducts requirements analysis and other management studies to analyze feasability of possible solutions and recommend appropriate solutions. Designs programs, performs software intergration and systems tests. Prepares program specifications and manuals. 34.67 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 38.83 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of six years cost estimating and financial management experience . Bachelor's Degree Knowledgeable of cost analysis methods used in complex estimating assignments. able to conduct analytical studies involving complex technical parameters, schedule constraints,and other similar cost influencing factors. Knowledgeable of cost estimating environment in industry and government. Capable of performing financial management functions relevant to the task. This could include any or all of the following: extensive working knowledge and/or familiarity with program planning, scheduling (critical path,float calculation,and intergrated master schedule analysis); budget planning, and formulation (PPBS);cost analysis(CPR,CSSR, C/SCSC) and documentation responsibilities (PMD, PMP, Acquistion Plan, RFP, SAR.DAES); and Life Cycle Cost, Design to Cost and Cost as Independent Variable analysis. Must be familiar with DoDD 5000.1, 5000.2, DoDM 5000.2M; MIL-STD881A; AFRs 170-8 and -13,172-1; AFMCPs 173-4 and-5. Working knowledge and/or familiarity with automated cost reporting and scheduling hardware and software relevant to the task assigned. 85.39 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 95.63 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of two years cost estimating and financial management experience . Bachelor's Degree Knowledgeable of cost analysis methods used in complex estimating assignments. able to conduct analytical studies involving complex technical parameters, schedule constraints,and other similar cost influencing factors. Knowledgeable of cost estimating environment in industry and government. Capable of performing financial management functions relevant to the task. This could include any or all of the following: extensive working knowledge and/or familiarity with program planning, scheduling (critical path,float calculation,and intergrated master schedule analysis); budget planning, and formulation (PPBS);cost analysis(CPR,CSSR, C/SCSC) and documentation responsibilities (PMD, PMP, Acquistion Plan, RFP, SAR.DAES); and Life Cycle Cost, Design to Cost and Cost as Independent Variable analysis. Must be familiar with DoDD 5000.1, 5000.2, DoDM 5000.2M; MIL-STD881A; AFRs 170-8 and -13,172-1; AFMCPs 173-4 and-5. Working knowledge and/or familiarity with automated cost reporting and scheduling hardware and software relevant to the task assigned. 59.00 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 66.07 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 Minimum of four years experience in general office support activities and two years experience coordinating and executing administrative, office management and organization functions, of which two years are supervisory experience. H.S. Diploma or GED Knowledgable of current word processing, spreadsheet, and graphical software packages. Responsible for scheduling, monitoring, and supervision of all on-sit administrative personnel. 37.67 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004 42.19 1 Apr 1999 31 Mar 2004