ESC Wins Contract to Design, Deploy and Maintain Congressional Websites for the U.S. House of Representative

Fairfax, VA. Edmond Scientific Co., working under subcontract with Lockheed Martin Corp., has been selected by the U.S. House of Representatives to design, deploy and maintain Congressional web sites and make them more easily accessible to people with disabilities.

ESC staff will work collaboratively with House Information Resources (HIR) to design and manage Members’ web sites and meet extensive maintenance requirements.

Currently, congressional offices have to hire permanent staff, assign time consuming duties to existing staff or contract outside vendors to provide web site design and maintenance to meet House Members’ communications’ objectives. ESC was selected to perform these duties because of the company’s capacity to provide all Representatives’ offices with a high level of quality and responsiveness.

Because web sites can vary extensively in purpose, functionality and content, successful web site design and development requires considerable interaction between developers and providers. Therefore, ESC focused on the client’s primary objectives and based the project plan, technology and implementation solely on the client’s goals.

An important component in securing the contract was ESC’s ability to make the Representatives’ web sites “Section 508 compliant.” Section 508 requires that federal agencies’ electronic and information technology should be accessible to people with disabilities. Using the web sites, federal employees and the public will now be able to access resources for understanding and implementing the requirements of Section 508.

The House contract marks another significant inroad by ESC – a professional services firm that provides information management and engineering services to government and commercial clients – in providing valuable technical services for the U.S. Government. The House contract will run simultaneously with a recent ESC prime contract with the U.S. Senate that calls for ESC to provide Senate offices with project management support, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) support, risk analysis, portfolio management, and support the development of statements of work, technical specifications and the evaluation of technical proposals.

ESC has extensive experience in evaluating diverse document and print management software applications, as well as systems engineering experience in planning and managing large complex software developments for both the U.S. Government and large corporations.