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U.S. Army Selects BearingPoint for Passive RFID Technical Engineering Services

Posted on: Thursday, 4 August 2005, 15:00 CDT

MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BearingPoint, Inc. , one of the world's largest management consulting and systems integration firms, announced today that it has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) by the U.S. Army to provide passive RFID technical engineering services. The contract was awarded by the Information Technology, E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center (ITEC4), and is designed to provide RFID technical services, data integration software, and passive RFID middleware to meet Department of Defense (DoD) requirements.

Under the multiple-award BPA, BearingPoint will compete with 11 other companies for task orders issued by the DoD to provide passive RFID services in critical areas such as asset tracking across DoD's supply chain; manufacturing and remanufacturing processes at industrial base depots, arsenals, and ammunition plants; monitoring environmental conditions affecting sensitive inventories (e.g., temperature, humidity and shock within medical material inventories); human capital management; and physical security requirements across the DoD's infrastructure. These task orders may be in the form of smaller support efforts requiring the installation and de-installation of RFID hardware, or larger turnkey efforts involving architectural design, recommendation of the best RFID hardware and software to meet unique requirements, and successful integration of existing RFID devices and software with legacy systems and enterprise solutions.

The BPA recognizes the need for the DoD to address passive RFID technology and how it can be used to track critical assets from the supplier to the end user, thus improving the end user's confidence in the supply system's ability to meet weapon system readiness needs. It also addresses the need to use RFID technology to assist in dramatically improving manufacturing/re-manufacturing processes in the DoD's industrial base to include "kitting" (delivering multiple parts into a single "kit" for end use), asset tracking, and reliability/performance assessments.

"BearingPoint is proud to have been selected by the U.S. Army to take a crucial role in the rapidly emerging RFID market," said Tom Glisson, a retired Army Lieutenant General and Managing Director of BearingPoint's Army Sector Logistics Solutions Group. "This blanket purchase agreement reflects confidence in our unique approach to providing passive RFID technical engineering services, which combines BearingPoint's solution experience with our understanding of DoD's functional and technical requirements across the logistics and weapon systems data management environment."

"Working from its RFID Centers of Excellence, BearingPoint has developed a powerful RFID architectural framework solution that leverages the products of leading RFID hardware and software vendors," said Nicholas Evans, Director for BearingPoint's Global RFID Solutions practice. "The company has agreements in place with those vendors to swiftly provide data integration software and RFID middleware in response to a broad range of customer requirements."

BearingPoint's team for task orders under this BPA will include two renowned RFID small businesses, Subsystems Technologies and RFID Global Solutions, to assist with overall technical engineering services efforts. The past performance of these companies adds strength to BearingPoint's RFID and emerging technology solution capabilities and will enhance its global capability to rapidly respond to the DoD requirements. The team also includes leading Enterprise Application Integration, warehouse management system, and RFID middleware vendors to respond to detailed task order requirements.

More information on BearingPoint's RFID solutions for the public sector may be found by visiting http://www.bearingpoint.com/RFIDinGovernment.

About BearingPoint, Inc.

BearingPoint, Inc. is one of the world's largest management consulting, systems integration and managed services firms serving government agencies, Global 2000 companies, medium-sized businesses and other organizations. We provide business and technology strategy, systems design, architecture, applications implementation, network infrastructure, systems integration and managed services. Our service offerings are designed to help our clients generate revenue, reduce costs and access the information necessary to operate their business on a timely basis. Based in McLean, Va., BearingPoint has been named by Fortune as one of America's Most Admired Companies in the computer and data services sector. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://www.bearingpoint.com/.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, the accuracy of which is necessarily subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied include general economic conditions and the factors discussed in Exhibit 99.1 in our Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2004 and our Form 8-Ks filed as of December 16, 2004, March 18, 2005 and April 20, 2005. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

BearingPoint, Inc.

CONTACT: Steve Lunceford of BearingPoint, Inc., +1-703-747-4545, orsteve.lunceford@bearingpoint.com

Web site: http://www.bearingpoint.com/http://www.bearingpoint.com/RFIDinGovernment

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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