CSS was proud to be a sponsor at the Cardinal Hickey Academy Golf Tournament – even though it was very wet out there today. Thanks to Jen Naron, Brian Pichler, Drew Mueller, Lou DiPaolo and Chris Garrett for participating and braving the rain.
CSS was awarded a contract with the State of Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center (MLDSC), System Management Department and University System of Maryland (USM) to collaborate with research teams to support the build out of a new data warehouse to be used for federally funded projects. The scope will focus on elaborating existing Requirements, Design, Development, and Integration and Testing Phases in a highly interactive and iterative system development methodology. https://mldscenter.maryland.gov/
CSS was very proud and humbled to have received a Certificate in recognition of Excellence and Commitment to the Town of Leesburg as a Business Award Nominee. Lisa Cusack received the Certificate on May 16th at the 17th Annual Leesburg Business Awards.
CSS was recently awarded a 1 year extension to its U.S. Treasury Department, Fiscal Service (FS) Business Intelligence (BI) support Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). The new task order is to continue support of Fiscal Service’s Treasury Check Information System (TCIS). The U. S. Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Payment Management, manages and operates Federal disbursement and related payment aftermath systems. The Treasury Check Information System (TCIS) application includes an online WebFOCUS query and reporting environment for Fiscal Service and Federal Agency users. TCIS queries and reports provide information for check and ACH payment data, non-receipt claims information, ACH reclamation information, and a series of WebFOCUS reporting dashboards for operational and ad-hoc reports. TCIS accesses data from several legacy applications to include Payments, Claims, and Enhanced Reconciliation (PACER), Treasury Receivables, Accounting and Collection System (TRACS), Teletrace, Pega, and Frontier. TCIS is managed by the Philadelphia Financial Center (PFC). The objective of the Task Order is to provide technical WebFOCUS expertise and payment aftermath subject matter expertise in support of TCIS changes that impact the Integrated View and WebFOCUS dashboard components. The CSS Team supports TCIS changes by providing expert knowledge of WebFOCUS architecture, security architecture, payment aftermath expertise, database design, WebFOCUS development, unit testing, and user acceptance testing support. In addition, CSS assists PFC with the evaluation of proposed changes to determine whether the change is feasible. The CSS Team assesses the enhancement value relative to business process changes, productivity gains, operational efficiencies, paper reduction, and cost savings. We also support the requirements gathering, system design, development, unit testing, user acceptance testing, and implementation planning for user change requests.
CSS was recently awarded a new Task Order (TO) on its U.S. Treasury Department, Fiscal Service (FS) Business Intelligence (BI) support Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). This TO is to provide testing support of Fiscal Service’s Post Payment System (PPS). PPS is a multi-year development effort that will modernize and streamline post payment processes and replace legacy payment aftermath systems. The objective of the TO is to provide technical support through the planning, design, and execution of Philadelphia Financial Center (PFC) User Acceptance and Business Functional tests for PPS releases. CSS will provide expert knowledge of Post Payment business processes, Treasury Web Application Infrastructure (TWAI) technical architecture, and technical design of PPS. CSS will lead test planning activities, test execution activities, and provide knowledge transfer to PFC User Acceptance Test teams.
CSS was recently awarded a 1 year extension to its U.S. Treasury Department, Fiscal Service (FS) Business Intelligence (BI) support Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). The new task order is to continue support of Fiscal Service’s Post Payment System (PPS). PPS is a multi-year development effort that will modernize and streamline post payment processes and replace legacy payment aftermath systems. CSS provides technical WebFOCUS expertise and payment aftermath subject matter expertise in support of planning, requirements, security architecture, testing, customer outreach, and for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) activities required for PPS major and minor release implementations. Support for sub-sequent releases may be required through additional task orders. In addition, CSS supports PPS by providing expert knowledge of WebFOCUS architecture, security architecture, payment aftermath functions, legacy Fiscal Service post payment systems, and Fiscal Service system governance processes. WebFOCUS is an information retrieval and reporting tool created by Information Builders (IBI) and used in Business Intelligence (BI).
Too many people are affected by cancer. It has impacted, in one way or another, almost everyone. That’s why CSS continues to support the Relay For Life event – to help raise funds for the American Cancer Society. Money raised from these events makes a HUGE impact on cancer research and helps to save millions of lives and support those battling this dreaded disease.
Relay For Life is more than a fundraiser; it’s an event that brings the whole community together to prove that we will not let cancer win! It’s also a time when we honor survivors and caregivers, and remember loved ones lost. Together, we can stop this disease. That’s why we’d like your help.
Here’s how the American Cancer Society uses donations to help save lives:
Please support the American Cancer Society by making a donation. Thanks so much!
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Congratulations to our President and CEO, Lisa Cusack, for making the Loudoun Business Journal’s Women 100 List. Nominated by peers, this is Lisa’s third year in a row as part of an amazing group of women leading change in the county as well as society.
CSS was recently awarded, as the Prime Contractor, 6 Task Areas under a BPA (Blanket Purchase Agreement) with an unnamed Federal Agency (as per their request). This contract is for 1 year with 4 follow on option years. The Task Areas are
CSS has Annual Holiday Party on the Dandy. As part of our Holiday Celebration we raffle off prizes, in order to receive a raffle ticket employees must bring either a toy for Toys-For-Tots or Canned goods for Loudoun Hunger Relief. Our very generous employees donated over 30 toys and a grocery cart full of food. Thanks to everyone who donated!!
CSS is proud to help sponsor and support One Day. This is a single-day conference that has been organized with a heart of compassion toward inspiring women to believe in themselves and to achieve their goals, especially those who have found themselves in major life transitions. If you could use some encouragement, motivation, or support One Day is for you! If you have ever said “One Day I will (fill in the blank)” this conference is for you! If you are ready for a supportive …environment with like-minded people and overcomers serving as “Goal-Models” to help you put “Action” to your “One Day” goal, this conference is for you! Participation will be limited to 25 women this year so don’t hesitate, REGISTER TODAY!
Saturday, November 5th
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
215 Depot Court
Leesburg, VA 20175
Food will be provided!!
There is no cost to participate. Please visit our blog for more information or email Kindra Harvey atonedayachievers@gmail.com.
On August 17th, 2016 Custom Software Systems, Inc. was awarded a contract with the State of Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). This contract is to support DHMH Prevention and Health Promotion Administration’s (PHPA) Infectious Disease Prevention and Health Services Bureau (IDPHSB). IDPHSB supports and oversees prevention and health services programs for prevention of new HIV, STI, and viral hepatitis infections and improve the health of persons impacted by these infectious diseases in Maryland. To support this work, the IDPHS collects, manages, reports and analyzes client-level HIV prevention and health services data to describe program processes and outcomes (e.g. client eligibility, clients served, services delivered, expenditures, health outcomes). The data systems that support the daily operations of two IDPHSB programs, the Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program (MADAP) and HIV Testing Program, utilize custom WebFOCUS software which includes dashboards, reports, and data migration/transformation programs.
CSS is supporting these programs through the provision of WebFOCUS programming for high priority system modifications. In addition, CSS will be responsible for enhancing the existing system through the development of new and/or modified software functionality as defined by State needs.
Custom Software Systems, Inc. was assessed at CMMI-SVC v1.3 Maturity Level 2 (ML2) on September 22, 2016 by Multi-Dimensional Maturity with approval by the CMMI Institute on October 4, 2016. We want to thank Abaco Strategies, LLC and all of the CSS participants who helped to make this happen. This was no small effort and took the coordination and input from many people. By being CMMI ML2 this will allow us to be more efficient internally as a company as well as being able to provide greater efficiencies and support to our clients.
What our CMMI maturity level 2 rating means is:
• Our work and processes have received the highest form of third-party validation.
• We manage projects with an established set of practices.
• We’re dedicated to continuous improvement and producing great work that makes a difference.
So, once again, thanks to all who took part in the assessment and helped make this happen!!
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CSS was proud to sponsor and participate in the University of Maryland’s Entrepreneurship and Innovations Program (EIP) – http://www.eip.umd.edu/index.html. Bob Cusack was honored to be a judge in the competition which had 17 very talented teams of sophomores and freshmen who presented their business ideas. Some very innovative ideas were presented – presentations had to be done in 4 minutes or under with a 2 minute questions and answer session. This alone was tremendous fe…at! A couple of the ideas included health bars made from unused foods gathered from restaurants (allowing less food waste), a pet finder app that matched pets up with people (reducing euthanasia and pet adoption costs), a new way to code addresses for quick geo lookups, and many others. As well as bragging rights winners also received cash awards. Pictures of the event can be found at: ter.ps/terptank2016
Custom Software Systems, Inc. (CSS) will be participating in the Loudoun County Relay For Life at Heritage High School in Leesburg, VA this Saturday, May 21st 2016. Come join us or donate if you can (or both) by going to our team site CSS Geeks for the Cure.
When: Saturday May 21st, startin at 11:00 AM going through Midnight
Where: Heritage High School, Leesburg, VA 20175
Relay For Life of Loudoun County
CSS Supports the One Day Women’s Conference 2015
Saturday, November 7, 2015
7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
215 Depot Court, Leesburg, VA 20175
One Day is a single-day conference that has been organized with a heart of compassion toward inspiring women to believe in themselves and to achieve their goals, especially those who have found themselves in major life transitions. If you could use some encouragement, motivation, or support One Day is for you! If you have ever said “One Day I will (fill in the blank)” this conference is for you! If you are ready for a supportive environment with like-minded people and overcomers serving as “Goal-Models” to help you put “Action” to your “One Day” goal, this conference is for you! Participation will be limited to 25 women this year so don’t hesitate, REGISTER TODAY!
Visit The Website For More Information :
https://onedayconference2015.wordpress.com/
One Day Women’s Conference © 2015
The objective of this contract is to provide technical expertise and support in Payment Management processes, Payment Management Operations and Maintenance (O&M), and secure Payment Management system development, implementation, and deployment. CSS, along with our partner Pichler Computing, Inc., will assist Fiscal Service in sustaining the “legacy” Payment Management systems (Treasury Check Information System (TCIS) and Treasury Receivable Accounting Collection System (TRACS)) during its operational transfer to incumbent system (Post Payment System (PPS)). Upon complete transition of operational capabilities from the legacy systems to the incumbent system, the CSS Team will support the new system and phasing out of the legacy systems. This effort will ensure the Fiscal Service utilize the state-of-the-art technology while allowing no gaps in its capabilities or services for its customer, government agencies.
The HUBZone (or Historically Underutilized Business Zone) program encourages small businesses to locate in and hire employees from economically disadvantaged areas of the United States. Companies participating in the program can receive competitive advantages in winning federal contracts. This is our first HUBZone award since receiving our HUBZone certification in July of 2014.
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U.S. Treasury WebFOCUS Support Press Release
CSS was recently awarded a $6.2 Million 5 year Task Order with the State of Maryland under our CATS+ Master Contract. This Task Order was set-a-side for small businesses under the State’s Small Business Reserve (SBR) Program. The purpose of this work effort is to support system development life cycle activities, including requirements specification and development of acquisition documents for products and services, as required to modernize Maryland’s Enterprise Budget System (EBS) capabilities. Specifically, Team CSS is providing personnel who apply appropriate skills, beginning with Technical Project Management, to complete data and operational requirements, and support development of EBS-related requests for proposals and supporting acquisition documents. Team CSS will augment services to include Functional Project Management; Quality Assurance Management; Project Administration; Data and Systems Architecture; Financial Systems Analysis; Personnel Systems Analysis; Technical Writing; and Implementation Planning through a formally coordinated Work Order process at the request of the State. This work includes interacting with State Agencies to capture their requirements, gathering lessons learned from other States who have implemented similar systems, and supporting market capability and implementation best-practices research.
This is CSS’s first contract as a Master contractor under the State of Maryland’s Consulting and Technical Services+ (CATS+) Master Contract. The objective of this Master Contract, effective April 22, 2013 through April 21, 2028, is to enable State government to procure IT consulting and technical services in a timely and economical manner. Through CATS+, the State has a flexible means of obtaining information technology (IT) resources quickly, efficiently and cost effectively by issuing task orders specific to its needs.
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State of Maryland EBS Task Order Press Release
