BURKE, VA—September 29, 2009—CPS Professional Services, LLC, has been awarded a contract with the Business Transformation Agency (BTA) of the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide key services that support critical DoD business operations. Building on previous successful projects with the BTA, CPS will provide experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the areas of finance, acquisition, budgeting, communications and administration, to perform specialized, transformational work within the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer (ODCMO). The ODCMO performs a critical advisory role to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense in improving and managing business operations in the Department of Defense.

"The Department of Defense, as the largest organization in the world, is on a mission to transform itself by creating effective and efficient business operations," says Phil Panzarella, CPS CEO. "With our people, processes and methodologies, CPS is delighted to continue to provide quality management consulting services to the Deputy, Chief Management Office. CPS is poised to help in this transformational process to ensure DoD provides the best support and services for our troops in the field and their families at home."

Contributing efficiently and effectively to day-to-day operations, the CPS team will help ensure that ODCMO business transformation policies and programs meet stated performance goals. The CPS team is committed to helping the ODCMO meet the challenges of supporting the Warfighter mission and demonstrating financial and performance accountability.

This new contract adds to CPS' expanding list of DoD projects. CPS has supported the BTA and DCMO in various capacities since 2007. Past and current projects provide planning, communication, and event management, program management, office support, and administrative support, as well as Lean Six Sigma instruction and program support. During this period, CPS has received outstanding evaluations for its performance. CPS plans to build on its understanding of the BTA and DCMO mission, challenges, and culture, resulting from the past two-and-a-half years experience in supporting the Lean Six Sigma roll-out effort, the DCMO stand-up, and major events such as the Agility Forum and SOA Symposium.

CPS is a management consulting company specializing in business transformation and workplace performance. By building strong partnerships with a diverse range of companies, CPS assembles teams of specialists that match the requirements of each client and each project. For this contract, CPS has teamed with three other distinguished companies: FederalConference.com, OpenSource, and YRCI. FederalConference.com is an event planning firm that delivers professional event planning and management services. OpenSource is a high tech software development and new media company with solid web development experience. YRCI is an established leader in Federal Acquisition Advisory Services, and performs the functional professional services necessary to deliver business solutions for enterprise needs.

The entire CPS team looks forward to working with the BTA and DCMO on tasks that contribute to the successful execution of our national defense plans and support the U.S. Warfighter.

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BURKE, VA—September 29, 2009—The United States Department of Agriculture has engaged CPS Professional Services, LLC, to provide policy development services to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) International Services (IS). APHIS has the broad mission of protecting the health and value of American agriculture and natural resources through blocking disease and pestilence pathways to the United States. CPS provides related services under its GSA MOBIS Schedule.

CPS has spent the past two years engaging in APHIS projects valued at well over $1 million. Projects included establishing a Concept of Operations for the Agency's overseas workforce and a robust set of eighty-eight supporting standard operating procedures. CPS also designed a Decision Model to help quantify administrative feasibility as a function of technical need, in ranking potential locations for overseas posts. CPS staff worked with APHIS IS overseas personnel in the field, developing a Talent Management and Succession Plan.

The CPS team looks forward to applying its knowledge of APHIS IS' infrastructure, mission, and processes to the new USDA Policy Analyst task, which includes researching and developing new policies that uniformly apply to the agency's international workforce stationed around the world. The work requires crafting international policies, incorporating USDA, OMB and State Department guidelines and regulations, to develop ISO-compliant policy and procedure documentation.

Successful execution of this project will enable APHIS IS to become a performance-based organization, providing administrative field personnel with policy-driven responses to situations that are now handled inconsistently, on a case-by-case basis. APHIS IS can use the new policies as the foundation for developing standard operating procedures, which in turn, can serve as benchmarks for performance objectives.

CPS is a management consulting company specializing in business transformation and workplace performance. CPS has established a reputation as a leader in providing timely and successful completion of business transformation projects while remaining focused on the highest level of quality customer service. CPS professional staff have supported strategic planning, process development, performance measurement and reporting, organizational development, and delivery of ISO-compliant policy and procedure documentation to the USDA, DoD, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Department of Labor, as well as to the private sector.

CPS is confident in its ability to execute this project and looks forward to competing for other USDA projects in the areas of business transformation and human performance systems.

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BURKE, VA—August 25, 2008—CPS Professional Services, LLC, achieved a rating of 94% out of a possible score of 100 in Dun & Bradstreet's Open Rating System. CPS Professional Services has been certified by as a Top 20% Performer. This rating was based on the Past Performance Evaluation survey responses of its reference customers. A PPE score of 94/100 demonstrates outstanding overall customer satisfaction relative to similar companies.

CPS Professional Services prides itself on offering superior customer service. The company acts as a virtual team, augmenting each customer's staff with experienced resources, while focusing on facilitating the customer's mission. Along with its partner Abrams Learning & Information Systems, Inc., CPS Professional Services was recently awarded a $1 million contract to provide strategic organizational development services for USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Over the past year, CPS Professional Services worked with APHIS to develop a Concept of Operations to design, sustain and maintain an overseas workforce. This work included a robust set of standard operating procedures covering administrative operations in overseas offices.

Founded in 2006, CPS Professional Services is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned management consulting company with an agile boutique solution approach. In its second year of operation, the company provides federal government customers with program management, organizational development and human capital planning. CPS Professional Services customers include the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense and the United States Department of Agriculture.

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