SPEC Announces Department of Defense RFID III Contract Award

Dec. 23, 2008 - PRLog -- As an awardee, SPEC and its RFID III Team Members; BearingPoint, Honeywell, and IDENTEC SOLUTIONS, Inc., will be invited to supply the wide variety of RFID equipment, engineering services and “turn-key” solutions for the DoD, the Federal Government and U.S. allies.

Randy Noster, CEO of SPEC, stated, "We are committed to providing the Warfighter with total command of his world-wide supply chain with a fully integrated set of tools that goes well beyond simple application of active RFID Tags to include UIDs, passive RFID, bar codes, sensors of all kinds, and associated software that will provide the wide range of timely logistics information required to make informed logistics decisions. It should be noted that the nature of this contract sets a new standard for integrated, fully commercial, logistics IT acquisition by the Department of Defense, which specifically mandates the sorts of integrated “turn key solutions” that are needed within DoD, and the entire U.S. Government arena.  Our assembled team of expert corporations is uniquely qualified to begin doing exactly that right now!”

About the contract:  RFID-III contracts will provide interoperable ISO/IEC 18000-7:2008 compliant active RFID hardware, software, documentation, and, services to authorized users worldwide. Services include training, warranty and maintenance services, and technical engineering services (TES). The contract has a base period of three years with two option years for the ordering of hardware, software, documentation, consumables and TES.  There are options for five additional years for ordering maintenance on the contract.

Interested media should visit: http://www.spec.com

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About SPEC: SPEC is a 22 yr-old corporation, that has long provided logistics information system products and integrated solutions, composed of rugged equipment sets, real time command and control systems, and intelligent user applications, specifically designed for logistics operations in both developed, as well as austere environments. SPEC empowers global end-to-end supply chain operations in the world’s most demanding environments.