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ADYE New Jersey Awards $14.8 Million Dollar Voter Registration Contract to Covansys, PCC & Aradyme
New Jersey Awards $14.8 Million Dollar Voter Registration Contract to Covansys, PCC & Aradyme
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.
Covansys Corporation
Michelle Jones, 248-848-2269
mjones@covansys.com
or
PCC Technology Group
Patty Cormaggi, 860-242-3299 ext. 240
pattyc@pcctg.com
or
Aradyme Corporation
Russell Arnold, 801-705-5020
rarnold@aradyme.com
Covansys Continues to Dominate Public Sector With More Than $30 Million in Announced HAVA Awards in Just Over a Year
Covansys Corporation (NASDAQ:CVNS), a global consulting and technology services company, along with its subcontractors PCC Technology Group (PCC), a leading provider of election management solutions, and Aradyme Corporation (OTCBB:ADYE), a next-generation database company, announced today that it was awarded a $14.8 million contract by the New Jersey Attorney General's office to implement a statewide voter registration system. This is the sixth HAVA win for Covansys, which recently announced voter registration contracts with the states of Maine and Nevada.
This technology will help New Jersey's 21 counties meet the mandates set forth by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). HAVA requires that all states put in place a centralized and interactive statewide voter registration system that will be defined, maintained, and administered at the state level by January 2006. New Jersey's voter registration system is scheduled to be fully implemented by the end of December 2005.
Covansys will provide the design, development, and implementation of the new system utilizing PCC's ElectioNet(TM) software, with Aradyme providing the voter data migration and conversion services. The contract includes the hosting, maintenance and help desk support of the system through 2007. The system is expected to provide a number of benefits for the state including:
-- The ability of counties to share voter registration data with other counties
-- A robust system redundancy and failover architecture
-- County level analysis and reporting capabilities
-- Interface with state agencies
-- The facilitation of real-time statewide voter search for all authorized state election officials
-- Detection of duplicate registrations
-- Voter validation and identification (unique identifiers)
-- Digitized signature support and scanning of voter registration cards
-- The ability to generate voter lists
-- Petition management
-- Voter history information
-- Management reporting and standard/custom reports
For the voters of New Jersey, the system will increase customer service by standardizing and centralizing the registration process and ensuring accurate and consistent registration practices throughout the state. Additional benefits include the ability to scan voter registration cards and voter correspondence.
"ElectioNet will provide the state with a high-performance voter registration system that not only reduces the potential for fraud, but provides data in real-time as well as comprehensive support for their election processes," said Joe Singh, PCC executive vice president.
"This project has a relatively short timetable, and we're pleased that Aradyme was chosen as the trusted solution to manage and convert the data in a timely manner," said James R. Spencer, chief executive officer of Aradyme. "Projects like these really showcase the value, flexibility and effectiveness of our technology."
"This is an important award for Covansys, cementing our leadership position in the HAVA market. The ElectioNet solution is unmatched in the industry, and we're very pleased that New Jersey has recognized the value in it," said Arvind Malhotra, senior vice president of Covansys' Public Sector Practice.
For nearly 20 years, Covansys has provided public sector solutions to more than 47 states plus the Virgin Islands, District of Columbia and Guam in the areas of health and human services, public retirement, public health, motor vehicle services and unemployment insurance systems. To date, Covansys has been selected by six states to implement a HAVA solution including the states of Rhode Island, Idaho, Nevada, Maine and New Hampshire and has announced more than $30 million in HAVA contracts since February 2004.
About Covansys Corporation
Headquartered in Michigan, Covansys Corporation (Nasdaq:CVNS) is a global consulting and technology services company specializing in industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing and integration services. Clients gain competitive advantage by leveraging our unique on-site, offsite, offshore delivery capability to achieve rapid deployment, world-class quality and reduced costs. A leader in the public sector market, Covansys is also known for application maintenance and development outsourcing in the healthcare, financial services, retail and distribution, manufacturing, telecommunications and high-tech industries. Founded in 1985, with nearly 6000 employees worldwide, Covansys was one of the first U.S.-based IT services companies to establish offshore facilities in India, and is a pioneer in seamlessly integrating offshore capabilities into its offerings. Two of the company's three wholly owned development centers in India are assessed at Level 5 in SEI CMM(R). All three are ISO 9001:2000 certified and assessed at Level 5 in PCMM(R). Covansys was named one of the leading IT companies for state and local governments in 2002 and 2003 by Washington Technology magazine, and one of the top 500 solution providers in 2002 and 2003 by VARBusiness magazine. Visit our web site: www.covansys.com.
About PCC Technology Group
PCC Technology Group is a leading provider of Government Centric Information Technology Solutions with offices in Boston and Bloomfield. PCC operates under five primary practices that include: Elections Division, Homeland Security, Healthcare, Gaming and Custom Solutions. There are numerous PCC developed e-Government applications being used nationwide. Deloitte and Touche, and the Connecticut Technology Council have recognized PCC as one of the fifty fastest growing technology companies in 2001 and 2002.
PCC's Elections Division brings vast experience with our customer driven team of Election Product Specialists that concentrate on Federal and State laws in the areas of Campaign Finance and Centralized Voter Registration. PCC's ElectioNet Suite of products is unique in the marketplace because its architecture was developed to run on any platform, which allows each state to easily transition to a real-time web-based technology. With their Centralized Voter Registration in compliance with the Help America Vote Act they stand ready to assist any state with meeting the requirements mandated by law and ensure a successful implementation.
For more information on the election products and services that PCC provides visit www.electionet.biz.
About Aradyme Corporation
Aradyme Corporation is a next-generation database company that provides the most advanced and innovative data migration solutions and application development available in the marketplace today. These services and solutions are made possible by a suite of exclusive database management tools and a database platform. The company's technology, which is 100 percent dynamic-schema driven, is the result of several breakthroughs the company has made in its underlying database management system (DBMS) technology that enable it to assist customers in overcoming many of the constraints and limitations that have plagued the database industry for years. Using Aradyme, customers are able to gain more control over the data in their DBMS and legacy systems; have greater flexibility and utility of both data and database applications; efficiently and accurately solve database-related business problems and realize more cost-effective solutions; accelerate the deployment of new database management solutions; and better manage and grow their businesses. For more information about Aradyme, call 801-705-5000 or visit the company's Web site at www.aradyme.com.
