Press Release: ActioNet, Inc. Awarded EOP II Contracts in Three Functional Areas

FAIRFAX, VA – January 14, 2004 – ActioNet announced today that it has been awarded five-year contracts in three Information Technology (IT) Functional Areas under the Energy Information Administration Omnibus II (EOP II) Procurement with a combined ceiling of over $38M. These Functional Areas included Facilities Management, Network, Help Desk, Software Development and Database Administration. ActioNet was also part of a winning team for the Information Management and Product Production Functional Area.

ActioNet’s President, Ashley W. Chen, first approached EIA in 2000 with a plan to better leverage existing IT investments and brought in seasoned staff to put this plan in motion. Chen said, “Our talented and hard working team members believe in exceeding customer expectations and never settle for being second best”. ActioNet was one of the first companies to develop and deploy multi-tiered Web applications with all tiers residing on the same physical IBM Enterprise Server.

ABOUT EIA AND EOP II
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), created by Congress in 1977, is a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA provides policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses to promote sound policy making, efficient markets, and public understanding regarding energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment. The EOP II is a consolidation of computer, management and technical support services required by the individual programs under EIA.

ABOUT ACTIONET, INC.
ActioNet, Inc., headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, is an SEI CMM Level 3 Certified company that specializes in full life cycle Enterprise Software Development, Systems Integration, Training and IT Security. ActioNet, Inc. was founded by Ashley W. Chen in 1998 with the vision of “helping customers align their IT strategies with their business goals”. ActioNet has partnered with EIA’s since 2000 in support of its mission to provide timely and accurate Energy data to both Congress and the general public. ActioNet developed EIA’s J2EE Enterprise Application Architecture and deployed EIA’s first Internet Survey Data Collection application in less than five months. This resulted in ActioNet receiving the 2002 DOE CIO IT Quality Award for Technical Excellence in 2002.

iMakeSurveys.com, a product of ActioNet, was created to provide a fast and easy solution for collecting and analyzing information to assess program effectiveness, outreach activities and many other organizational needs. iMakeSurveys provides our customers with a cost effective solution for data collection, reporting and analysis. For more information, please visit www.iMakeSurveys.com.

CONTACT
Ashley W. Chen, ActioNet, Inc., 703-204-0090 Ext. 108, achen@actionet.com.