BTG Awarded GSA Cost Management Services Contract

Business Wire, April 16, 2001

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2001

BTG, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTGI), announced that its team has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Government's General Services Administration (GSA) to provide cost engineering services to federal agencies.

The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, which was awarded to BTG and four other prime contractors, has a one-year base period with up to four one-year option periods. BTG's contract has a not-to-exceed value of $5 million per year. BTG's team members include URS Group, Inc.; PMA Consultants LLC; Space Management Consultants, Inc.; Robinson & Associates, Inc.; Zaxon, Inc.; and Hughes Associates, Inc.

The specialized cost engineering, value engineering and scheduling services offered under the contract will be available to GSA regional offices throughout the United States and to all federal agencies that manage design and construction programs. Cost engineering services are used throughout the development and delivery of a project or property, including planning, design, construction, operations, and shutdown.

Bill Hunt, the Contracting Officer's Representative in GSA's Atlanta office, said: "These contract awards reflect the culmination of a year of intense planning and positioning, whereby we have successfully obtained the services of the best cost engineering firms around the country."

The services that the BTG team will provide under the terms of the contract include:

--Development of new guidelines, policies, procedure manuals, training guides, benchmarking and measurement standards and programs;

--Development, management, and/or purchase of cost management tools, systems and databases;

--Feasibility studies, including economic growth, labor productivity, and projects and programs;

--Analyses, including economic, cost-to-benefit, risk management, cost and price, liability, constructability, schedule, and market analyses;

--Property condition and cost assessments; cost and price forecasting; development and management of cost and schedule control systems;

--Value engineering/value management services and earned value management systems;

--Contract negotiations support;

--Resource and activity planning/scheduling; and

--Claims management and analyses.

BTG Senior Vice President Les Rose, General Manager of the company's Applied Engineering Solutions business unit, said: "In the past ten years, we have delivered cost engineering and estimating services for facilities with a combined construction value of over $10 billion. While most of our customers are agencies of the Department of Defense, with this contract we can offer our planning expertise across the entire federal sector - from courthouses and office buildings to industrial facilities and laboratories."

Rose said BTG is well suited to this assignment based on the company's core expertise in cost engineering, and the team's high comfort level in working in the IDIQ environment. "We have formed an exclusive team of proven performers who, like BTG, apply the latest technology and applications in providing leading-edge cost engineering solutions. Together, we hope to assist GSA in establishing a Cost Engineering Center Of Excellence in the federal sector, and look forward to providing these services to an expanded customer base through this partnership with GSA."

BTG provides information technology and computer-based engineering services to government and commercial clients. In addition to Cost Management Services, the company's expert practice areas include Enterprise Support Services and Network Management, Modeling and Simulation, Technology in Schools, Geographic Information Systems, Mobile Computing, and Client Care Services. Information about BTG is available on the Web at www.btg.com, by e-mail at info@btg.com, or by calling 703-383-8140.

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