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November

Catapult awarded a $2.8M ITOP-II, five-year, task

Catapult Technology, Ltd. has been awarded a $2.8M ITOP-II, five-year, task supporting the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Management Services Office, Information Resources Services, Information Management Group in Denver, Colorado to provide a seamless transition from legacy to replacement applications with minimal disruption to reclamation operations and to provide a source of software development services in reclamation supported programming languages.

The task includes:
(a) Maintain legacy Ingres and COBOL applications including programming corrections, data and user documentation, and user support.
(b) Develop and maintain client-server and internet applications.
(c) Develop and maintain Oracle-based databases and data warehouses.
(d) Provide quality assurance, configuration management, and application logistics services.
(e) Conduct business process and information systems analysis associated with software development and maintenance.

October

Catapult is presented a Small Business of the Year Award for FY2001 from the Secretary of Transportation.
The firm starts the new Government fiscal year with a contract backlog of $50M.
HUD awards Catapult a contract to provide CIO Organizational Transition Support on the Consolidation of HUD IT Lines of Business under the Office of the CIO.

This is a continuation of Catapult's contract to provide Human Capital and IT organizational expertise to facilitate the consolidation of HUD's IT lines of business within the Office of the CIO. The support is at the senior management (SES) level.

September

Catapult Awarded a Five-Year VANITS task to provide Comprehensive Systems, Network, Servers, E-Mail, Telecommunications and Desktop Operations Support to the Department of Transportation and other Agencies

Catapult to provide enterprise-wide IT solutions and services in the areas of computer and financial management systems hosting, telephony, network infrastructure and monitoring services, help desk, seat management, E-learning , information security, and program/contracts management. In conjunction with of these services, Catapult will provide a variety of ad-hoc in-house and customer support activities, operating 24 hours per day and 7 days per week to meet the Transportation Administrative Services Center Information Technology Operations customers' information technology and telecommunications needs. The contract consolidates and re-aligns services to eliminate redundancy and to increase organizational responsiveness. Catapult will staff approximately 50 positions with provisions to add additional support as the work expands.

Catapult Awarded a Five-Year Business Support, Financial Management,and Systems Design Support task for the Department of Transportation

Catapult has been awarded a five-year VANITS task supporting the TASC Business Support Office. The effort includes: Business Process Analysis; System Functional Requirements Definition; System Interface Requirements Definition; Financial Information System Design and Development; Financial Management Reporting; Data Entry; Customer Billing; and Invoice Routing, The immediate objective of the task is to consolidate the majority of ITO's administrative support for clerical, projects, project management, inventory and other administrative type services supporting ITO's operational activities.

July

Catapult Awarded a Five-Year task to provide Technical Services to the Department of Transportation

The task was awarded under the STATUS contract. Catapult provides Technical Services and Administrative Support to the Information Technology Operations (ITO) organization within the Transportation Administrative Services Center. The effort is a $7-15 million level-of-effort, time and materials, support task in the following areas:

Business Process Analysis
Administrative/Clerical
Customer Service Representative
Inventory Management
Systems Documentation
Systems Design and Development
Systems Life Cycle Management
Security
Staff Training

The immediate objective of the task is to consolidate the majority of ITO's administrative support for clerical, projects, project management, inventory and other administrative type services supporting ITO's operational activities.

June

Catapult Awarded HUD-Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Human Capital Development Contract

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, OCIO has a number of key business priorities that require a substantial investment in its human capital; Catapult has been chosen to provide this support in the Consolidation of HUD's various IT lines of business under the OCIO. The OCIO has undergone dramatic growth in the last several months, a need to meld intra-agency cultures, and overall mission changes which have impacted the organizational climate. Catapult's initiative will adroitly assess organizational climate and its training needs at the management/supervisory levels, define comprehensive human capital development action plans to fill business/organization gaps, and develop strategies for core human capital development processes.

March

Catapult Becomes 8(a) Certified as a Disabled-Veteran-Owned Firm

The 8(a) Contracting and Business Opportunity Program is named for the section of the Small Business Act from which it derives its authority. Through the 8(a) Business Development Program, small companies owned by socially and economically disadvantaged persons can obtain Federal Government contracts. Catapult is in the Program until March 2010 or may graduate earlier if it achieves the objectives of the business development program before its graduation date.

February

Catapult Wins Specialized Technical and Technology User Support (STATUS) Contract

The Transportation Administrative Services Center (TASC) provides a wide range of technical and administrative services to Department of Transportation (DOT) operating administrations and other customers. The underlying concept of TASC is to offer an alternative source of service that allows the operating administrations to both focus on their own core missions and to generate savings by consolidating redundant administrative management structures. The services provided by STATUS are intended to service and support a number of specialized, technical areas of developmental, transitional, and ongoing operational maintenance technology related requirements. Catapult will provide these requirements in 3 select areas:

Artificial Intelligence
Wireless Technologies/Network
Maintenance Support