USIS Selects Privia by SpringCM for Bid & Proposal Management

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Privia, a Division of SpringCM®, a leader in cloud enterprise content management, announced today that US Investigations Services, LLC (USIS), the largest commercial provider of background investigation services for the federal government and an Altegrity company, has selected Privia® by SpringCM for bid and proposal management initiatives.

“Additionally, we need to provide our teaming partners with a means to provide proposal input without having to email documents and juggle versions. SpringCM’s superb functionality allows us to maximize productivity on each proposal and meet short turn-around times for proposals and task orders.”

USIS chose a solution to improve collaboration and communication across its business development and proposal management teams regardless of location. USIS also needed to assure that staff could easily access and repurpose a full library of proposal content that was housed in numerous shared drives, PCs and in Microsoft SharePoint. The solution also allows the USIS team to quickly access proposal information, maintain document configuration control, and consistently utilize proposal management best practices.

“We need a solution to efficiently manage our entire proposal lifecycle,” said Richard Tallman, vice president of business development at USIS. “Additionally, we need to provide our teaming partners with a means to provide proposal input without having to email documents and juggle versions. SpringCM’s superb functionality allows us to maximize productivity on each proposal and meet short turn-around times for proposals and task orders.”

“Government contractors are facing increased competition for contracts and short deadlines to respond to federal opportunities,” said Joe Marino, vice president and general manager of the Privia Division of SpringCM. “Privia’s cloud solution allows USIS to effectively manage the government opportunity lifecycle and collaborate with associates and teammates anytime, anywhere. We’re pleased that they’ve selected us for these important business development initiatives.”

About USIS

USIS, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., has more than 6,600 employees delivering a wide array of information-based screening and security services to diverse government and commercial customers, throughout all 50 states, every U.S. territory, and overseas. Serving federal government agencies through approximately 100 contracts, USIS has approximately 2,600 credentialed field investigators and performed more than 2 million investigations for government agencies in 2010. USIS has also trained more than 11,000 personnel in more than 50 countries—including Iraq, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Colombia—in police techniques, antiterrorism and counterinsurgency. USIS is a major provider of customized records, information and document management solutions for multiple federal agencies.

About Privia

SpringCM’s Privia Division, based in Herndon, VA is an award-winning provider of cloud enterprise content management solutions to the public sector and the government contractor marketplace. With delivery in days and at a fraction of the cost, organizations can streamline their inefficient document processes with customers, vendors, and remote operations. Leading government contracting organizations such as CSC, BTAS, Management Concepts, Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) and USIS are achieving a payback in as little as 40 days in areas such as bids and proposals, past performance management, contract management, case management, claims processing and forms management. Privia customers also avoid the expense, complexity, and risks of traditional ECM software. For further information, please visit www.springcm.com.