CSS was recently awarded a 5 year prime contract with State of Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA). Under this contract CSS is responsible for providing Business Intelligence (BI) Support Services as required by the Maryland MVA.
CSS was recently awarded a subcontract with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) through our partner Abaco Strategy, LLC to provide procurement consulting support.
CSS was recently awarded a 5 year prime contract with the Technology Services Department of the Management Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Under this contract CSS will be asked to provide support in the following categories: Administrative, Business Intelligence, Change Management, Compliance, Configuration Management / Enterprise Architecture, Help Desk Support, Project and Program Management, System Analysis / Engineering, System Development / Database Administration, and Security / System Administration. Projects will include support associated with maintenance and security of current and future on-premise and cloud solutions, infrastructure including enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, Human Capital Management (HCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Oracle Business Intelligence Suite (OBI), commercial off-the-self software (COTS) packages as well as custom developed tools.
CSS was recently awarded a 2 year prime contract with the Maryland State Department of Education Longitudinal Data Systems Center (MLDS Center). The mission of the MLDS Center is to develop and maintain a data system that contains student data from all levels of education and workforce data in order to provide analyses, produce relevant information, and inform choices to improve student and workforce outcomes, while ensuring the highest standards of system security and data privacy. Under this contract CSS will be providing Technical Project Management Support. Our TPM will be responsible for the management, design, development, and implementation of the Synthetic Data Project (SDP) that shall deliver a data warehouse containing student information and synthetic data sets. The TPM will be responsible for creating all supporting documentation including but not limited to custom data models, custom coded ETL processes, source to target mappings, data dictionaries, semantic data layers, and data refresh processes.
CSS is proud to support Loudoun Elevating Quality of Life Skills (EQOLS), a collaboration of local groups seeking to elevate the quality of life of our Loudoun community through education, skills, confidence, and greater access to resources. Programs offered by EQOLS include free classes in Life Skills English Literacy, STEM Family Computer Skills, Immigrant Advancement Workshops, Children’s Spanish-English Bi-Literacy and Self Advocacy, and one-to-one tutoring, Students create their first resumes, complete their US citizenship application, obtain jobs, are exposed to computer programming, create email accounts, and improve their everyday communication skills in English. https://www.facebook.com/groups/268407000550317/
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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