RULAND ASSOCIATES

If you are a Federal program manager needing high-assurance Information Technology (IT) services, Ruland Associates, Inc. (RAI) is available through the GSA multiple award schedule. Our services and prices are pre-approved.

You do not need to be a contracting expert. The easiest approach is to contact us directly, and we can guide you through the procurement maze. If talking to your agency's procurement staff, you can refer to:

RULAND ASSOCIATES, INC.
Post Office Box 790
Charles Town, WV 25414
304-728-6225 Phone
304-728-0136 FAX
ATTN: Jim Ruland
jkrukland@rulandassociates.com
www.rulandassociates.com

IT FACILITY OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE (D301)
RAI can provide facility operation, management and maintenance of multiple types of facilities. These include:

RAI can also provide assistance in the outsourcing of IT services including the operation and maintenance of such facilities.

IT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (D302)
RAI provides system development services for management and administrative systems. We specialize in HP, DG, DEC and IBM systems and can provide the following activities:

Determination of requirements
Development of functional description
Development of system and subsystem specifications
Management of overall system development
System testing, test sets, test reports
Preparation and implementation of system training plans.

IT SYSTEM ANALYSIS SERVICES (D306)
RAI performs system analysis functions in support of system decision and development activities, operations research testing and business process re-engineering. This includes, but is not limited to:

Mission Needs Analysis
Legacy System Analysis
Analysis of Alternative Solutions
Life Cycle Cost Analysis
Benefit Comparison and Analysis
Cost-Performance Trade-off Studies
Goals and Objectives Analysis
Comparative Hardware/Software Analysis
Analysis of Prototyping and Test Results
Evaluation of COTS Hardware and Software

AUTOMATED INFORMATION SYSTEM DESIGN AND INTEGRATION SERVICES (D307)
RAI has supported the design and integration of automated information systems since its inception in 1986. This has included, in addition to services listed in 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 above, the following services:

Conduct BPR by defining missions, goals, objectives, processes and organizational structures
Conduct critical success factor studies to determine re-engineering parameters
Development of conceptual designs
Development of integration plans
Development of system design documents
Development of requirements-to-design matrices
Development and/or review of system performance and production requirements
Project management of AIS programs
Development of program approval documentation
System engineering reviews and reports
Independent validation/verification of AIS programs
Development of contingency of operations plans

PROGRAMMING SERVICES (D308)
RAI has been providing system-level and application programming support to our clients for seven years. We specialize in migration of legacy systems to new environments and integrating the software to operate on diverse systems. We provide the following services:

Conversion of system requirements into programming requirements
Development of programming specifications and plans
Selection and acquisition of appropriate tools (CASE, compilers, 4GL, etc.)
Coding and profiling
Development of test requirements traceability matrices
Prototyping and rapid prototyping
Functional, BETA, system and communications testing
Source code management (configuration management of version and change control)

IT BACKUP AND SECURITY SERVICES (D310)
RAI has developed and implemented multiple levels of back-up procedures for its data center operations. We have defined security and disaster recovery plans and offer the following services:

Security requirements determination
Development of security plans
Development of back-up procedures
Development of recovery and disaster recover plans
Operation and management of off-site back-up data centers and data storage facilities
Development of system security plans

IT DATA CONVERSION SERVICES (D311)
RAI performs data conversion services on a regular basis as the result of our programming, system integration and data center maintenance functions. These services include:

Legacy system data conversion
Data conversion for new data base designs
Data conversion from one media to another
Data imaging and conversion
Raster to vector and reverse conversion
Re-engineering of data formats
Flat-file to RDBMS data conversion

IT NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVICES (D316)
RAI provides services in managing and administering LANs/MANs/WANs; evaluating communications systems, hardware and software; operating mainframe, mini or client/server based network systems; and, designing and optimizing network topologies and site configurations. Included are such tasks as:

Characterize design features and/or architectures (e.g., fiber, token ring, star, and hybrid) as part of requirements definition for communications systems
Identify current system communications and interoperability capabilities
Identify deficiencies and shortcomings of current communications networks
Define and implement automated design procedures and systems
Design communications systems
Evaluate designs and concepts include tradeoff analyses, economic analyses, risk assessments, mathematical analyses, analytical models, performance predictions, simulations, and prototypes
Design and inspect communications support facilities
Analyze the performance and operation of communications systems
Install and integrate communications systems (including extending upgrading or enhancing existing systems).

OTHER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED (D399)
RAI provides a full range of IT professional services. This classification might include, as an example:

Configuration management and control system design, development and operation
Security and environmental system design
Mainframe computer space design
Major un-interruptible power systems.

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