Nortel wins $39 million immigration management contract
As more attention is being paid to legal — and illegal — immigration, more money is flowing into the management of various immigration-related operations; Norton Government Solutions benefits
DHS has awarded Fairfax, Virginia-based Nortel Government Solutions, a company wholly owned by Nortel (NYSE: NT), an estimated $39 million contract to increase program management support for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This is expected to help make USCIS more flexible and cost-effective in carrying out its mandate. Nortel Government Solutions will provide program management, acquisition, and administrative support services to USCIS through November 2011. Under the new contract, Nortel Government Solutions, which recently completed a one-year support agreement with USCIS, will double to ten the number of USCIS offices supported and more than triple to seventy-seven the staff providing such services as procurement strategy development and execution, project planning and scheduling, and day-to-day reporting, purchasing, database management, and other administrative tasks.
