Temecula, CA – April 30, 2012 – Executive Business Services (EBS), a leading software developer and distributor with headquarters in Temecula, California announced today that Physical Optics Corporation has selected ProPricer Small Business Edition to support the company’s government contracting cost proposal, proposal pricing, and cost analysis requirements.

As an industry leader in cost proposal commercial off the shelf applications, ProPricer serves as a multi-user platform where functional groups can collaborate within the same data set, real-time. As an alternative to restricted mainframe applications or unstable, complex spreadsheets, ProPricer offers users an easy-to-use interface, robust database design, advanced import and export features, and the ability to perform and create complex “what if” analysis and custom reports in minutes.

When talking about the latest Small Business Edition purchase, John Shurance, President and CTO commented, “POC is a terrific success story about a small business that has transitioned research to production with products that originated as a result of Small Business Innovation Research programs.” Mr. Shurance continued, “We’re pleased to be part of their growth strategy and look forward to seeing ProPricer supporting the company’s research and commercial success.”

Tony May, Physical Optics’ Finance liaison, gave his stamp of approval when he said, “ProPricer SBE is remarkable in its ease of use. We actually spend more time analyzing data than working on spreadsheets. The ProPricer software fits our business needs and will utilize its benefits for a long time”.

About Executive Business Services and ProPricer
Executive Business Services (www.solutionsbyebs.com) focuses on meeting the needs of the growing Information Technology marketplace, EBS continues to successfully build, easy-to-use commercial off-the-shelf applications for various industry markets. EBS’s industry proven ProPricer proposal pricing application suite has been helping contract management organizations standardize and manage the cost proposal process, thereby improving productivity and profitability time and again. With clients all over the US, Canada, and Europe, EBS attributes its success to its corporate mission of building quality, long-term relationships with its customers, while offering products and services that can meet and exceed the changing demands of its users. For more information about EBS and its product offering, please visit their website at www.propricer.com.

About Physical Optics Corporation (POC)
Physical Optics Corporation (www.poc.com – Torrance, California), is a systems integrator of advanced technology serving military, defense and security markets. POC is celebrating their 26th year as a private, small business, employee-owned company. With five buildings and 100,000 sq. ft., POC houses the most advanced and unique research laboratories, prototyping, demonstration, and production facilities. The company has active security clearance and complies with all applicable ITAR provisions. Physical Optics Corporation’s quality control management has been certified ISO 9001 for the past ten years and recently received certification to AS9100 and AS9110 standards. The company has launched 6 spin-off companies and holds over 135 issued patents worldwide, covering 40+ technologies.

Denni Griffith
Vice President of Marketing
Executive Business Services
43398 Business Park Drive
Temecula, CA 92590
Toll-Free: (800) 507-9980
Fax: (951) 693-0446
Email: dgriffith@propricer.com

Rick Shie
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
Physical Optics Corporation
1845 W. 205th Street
Torrance, CA 90501
Email: rshie@poc.com

Temecula, CA – April 17, 2012 – Executive Business Services, a leading provider of proposal pricing software solutions for government contractors announced its recent partnership with CBT Workshop, one of the largest providers of Earned Value Management System support (EVMS).  Headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, the company has created cost effective, web-based earned value training for clients around the globe.

This partnership combines CBT Workshop’s vast industry experience in Estimating and Earned Value with market leading technology in proposal cost and pricing.  This allows full cost and schedule integration during the solicitation response and negotiation phase, ensuring that at contract award, the execution baseline is in place on day one.  Associates will now be able to recommend and support new and existing ProPricer software installations, adding additional strengths to CBTW’s already powerful capability statement and consulting service offerings.

Executive Business Services offers its ProPricer Partner Program to premier industry organizations who assist federal government contractors in improving internal processes or eliminating efficiency gaps in cost proposal generation and/or cost analysis.

John Shurance, EBS President and CTO remarked, “Today’s Contractors are facing new regulations and challenges in response to Business Systems requirements and federal acquisition reform initiatives.  CBTW has decades of combined experience in proposals and contracting.  We’re incredibly pleased to be on their front lines as one of their technology partners.”

About Executive Business Services – Makers of ProPricer
As an application solutions provider focusing on meeting the needs of the growing Information Technology marketplace, EBS continues to successfully build, easy-to-use commercial off-the-shelf applications for various industry markets. EBS’s industry proven ProPricer proposal pricing application suite has been helping contract management organizations standardize and manage the cost proposal process, thereby improving productivity and profitability time and again. With clients all over the US, Canada, and Europe, EBS attributes its success to its corporate mission of building quality, long-term relationships with its customers, while offering products and services that can meet and exceed the changing demands of its users. For more information about EBS and its product offering, please visit their website at www.propricer.com. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

About CBTW
As a service company, CBTW is comprised of an extensive network of associates who collectively have over a century of experience in developing, implementing, training and documenting project, business, management and performance measurement systems and software for companies in the aerospace and defense industry. From Planners to Schedulers, Cost Analysts to Estimators, CBTW augments and provides implementation support and training on a variety of technology products.  Since the company’s inception in 1997, it has become one of the leading suppliers for skilled Earned Value Management System (EVMS) resources. Thousands of aerospace and defense professionals have completed the company’s EVMS Fundamentals training course.  Specializing in training, services, and tools, the company offers reliable, affordable EVMS support to a growing contracting market.  For more information on the company and its service offering, please visit them online at www.cbtworkshop.com.

Executive Business Services Contact:
Denni Griffith
Vice President of Marketing
Email: dgriffith@propricer.com
Toll-Free:  (800) 507-9980

Temecula, CA – March 26, 2012 – Executive Business Services (EBS), a leading software developer and distributor with headquarters in Temecula, California announced today that EADS North America has selected ProPricer Standard edition to support the company’s government contracting cost proposal, proposal pricing, and cost analysis requirements.

As an industry leader in cost proposal commercial off the shelf applications, ProPricer serves as a multi-user platform where functional groups can collaborate within the same data set, real-time. As an alternative to restricted mainframe applications or unstable, complex spreadsheets, ProPricer offers users an easy-to-use interface, robust database design, advanced import and export features, and the ability to perform and create complex “what if” analysis and custom reports in minutes.

John Shurance, President and CTO commented on the recent purchase by saying, “From helicopters to avionics, emergency, and space, EADS North America has been a successful contracting provider to major defense agencies and programs throughout the US Government.” Mr. Shurance continued, “Many of our clients are focused in Aerospace’s fixed aircraft and rotary wing. We look forward to seeing ProPricer satisfying another key player and performer with EADS North America.”

About Executive Business Services
As an application solutions provider focusing on meeting the needs of the growing Information Technology marketplace, EBS continues to successfully build, easy-to-use commercial off-the-shelf applications for various industry markets. EBS’s industry proven ProPricer proposal pricing application suite has been helping contract management organizations standardize and manage the cost proposal process, thereby improving productivity and profitability time and again. With clients all over the US, Canada, and Europe, EBS attributes its success to its corporate mission of building quality, long-term relationships with its customers, while offering products and services that can meet and exceed the changing demands of its users. For more information about EBS and its product offering, please visit their website at www.propricer.com.

About EADS North America
EADS North America is the U.S.-based operating arm of EADS, a global leader in aerospace, defense, and related services. Headquartered in Herndon, Va., the company offers a broad array of advanced solutions for fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, homeland security, telecommunications, defense electronics and avionics, and space.

About EADS
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defense and related services. In 2010, the Group – comprising Airbus, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter – generated revenues of € 45.8 billion and employed a workforce of nearly 122,000.

Denni Griffith
Vice President of Marketing
Executive Business Services
43398 Business Park Drive
Temecula, CA 92590
Toll-Free: (800) 507-9980
Fax: (951) 693-0446
www.propricer.com
email: dgriffith@propricer.com

Guy M. Hicks
Vice President
Corporate Communications and Public Relations
EADS North America
One Global View
2550 Wasser Terrace, Suite 9000
Herndon, VA 20171
Email: guy.hicks@eads-na.com

Temecula, CA – March 6, 2012 – Executive Business Services is pleased to invite clients and colleagues to its annual ProPricer product users conference. Each year, attendees will learn beginner and advanced topics related to the product’s advanced cost and pricing features and functions.  Primarily hosted in the company’s latest release, ProPricer 9.0, there will be technical workshops, hands-on technical training, general sessions, and networking events designed to bring professional estimators, pricers, program analysts, and others together to network, share, and master all things Federal Contract Proposal Pricing.

EBS provides complimentary registrations for clients with an active service maintenance agreement. Registrants have an opportunity to submit product feature enhancement request.  Discussions on all related requests will be addressed during conference’s signature enhancement meeting forum during the conference.

Hosted in Dana Point, California June 26 – 28, 2012 at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott, for more information on this year’s schedule of events, please visit the company’s conference information website by clicking here or visit http://conference.propricer.com.

SM&A will have the ability to offer valuable product information in response to process improvement recommendations and quickly implement those recommendations to improve the win ratios (or Pwin) for its clients.

Temecula, CA – March 1, 2012 – Executive Business Services, a leading provider of proposal pricing software solutions for government contractors announced its recent partnership with SM&A. SM&A, headquartered in Irvine California, is the leading full program/project life-cycle management consulting firm that helps companies pursue, win, and perform on government programs and commercial projects.

Designed to unite technology with industry expertise, this partnership will extend the company’s flagship product, ProPricer, to additional key performers while increasing SM&A’s capabilities in creating a realistic and reasonable cost baseline from the Price-to-Win (PTW) all the way to the cost volume to help clients increase their win rate.  As a market leader in commercial off the shelf proposal pricing software, for over 25 years ProPricer has found its way into nine of the top ten leading contractors, offering a secure, efficient venue for Estimators and Pricing teams to collaborate real-time during any development phase of the cost proposal life cycle.

SM&A will incorporate ProPricer knowledge into their service framework, allowing consultants to further assist clients in improving or eliminating process and efficiency gaps in cost proposal pricing and cost analysis.

“As a Veteran Owned Small Business, we are very excited to partner with a leading full program life-cycle management consulting firm like SM&A”, says Joseph Shurance, Executive Business Services’ CEO. “With a strong industry reputation and hard working consultants, SM&A and Executive Business Services share a common philosophy of quality and we hope to continue to grow the relationship over time delivering a mutually maximum benefit”.

About Executive Business Services – Makers of ProPricer
As an application solutions provider focusing on meeting the needs of the growing Information Technology marketplace, EBS continues to successfully build, easy-to-use commercial off-the-shelf applications for various industry markets. EBS’s industry proven ProPricer proposal pricing application suite has been helping contract management organizations standardize and manage the cost proposal process, thereby improving productivity and profitability time and again. With clients all over the US, Canada, and Europe, EBS attributes its success to its corporate mission of building quality, long-term relationships with its customers, while offering products and services that can meet and exceed the changing demands of its users. For more information about EBS and its product offering, please visit their website at www.propricer.com. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

About SM&A
SM&A is a leading management consulting firm providing leadership and mentoring solutions to position clients to PURSUE the right business opportunities, WIN new business, and PERFORM complex projects and programs. We help clients win by delivering a proven methodology and experienced people who help set business capture strategies, deliver winning proposals and orals, and then transition smoothly into the actual execution of the program. SM&A has the depth and domain experience to provide complete program lifecycle consulting solutions in diverse markets, from aerospace and defense contractors, through major systems integrators, to healthcare and financial/audit service providers.  Founded in 1982, SM&A (formerly NASDAQ: WINS) is a $100 million privately-held management consulting firm with approximately 350 employees. For more information, call 949-975-1550, email clientservices@smawins.com, visit www.smawins.com, or follow us on Linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/company/sm&a.

Executive Business Services Contact:
Denni Griffith
Vice President of Marketing
Email: dgriffith@propricer.com
(800) 507-9980

SM&A Contact:
Mark Werny
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Email: Mark.Werny@smawins.com
949.975.1550

Temecula, CA – February 10, 2012 – Executive Business Services (EBS), a leading software developer and distributor with headquarters in Temecula, California announced today that Black & Veatch has selected ProPricer Standard and Estimator editions to support the company’s government contracting cost proposal, proposal pricing, and cost analysis requirements.

As an industry leader in cost proposal tools, ProPricer serves as a multi-user platform where functional groups can collaborate within the same data set, real-time.  As an alternative to restricted mainframe applications or unstable complex spreadsheets, ProPricer offers users an easy-to-use interface, robust database design, advanced import and export features, and the ability to perform and create complex “what if” analysis and custom reports in minutes.

John Shurance, EBS President and Chief Technical Officer commented, “Black & Veatch is a very successful, innovative engineering and construction company. As an industry that comes standard with detailed labor and material costs, we’re excited that ProPricer suits their proposal needs.”  He continued, “We’re continually striving to support our clients with a flexible tool that will mold to an existing process, or create new controls when there is a need to resolve an efficiency gap.”

About Executive Business Services
As an application solutions provider focusing on meeting the needs of the growing Information Technology marketplace, EBS continues to successfully build, easy-to-use commercial off-the-shelf applications for various industry markets. EBS’s industry proven ProPricer proposal pricing application suite has been helping contract management organizations standardize and manage the cost proposal process, thereby improving productivity and profitability time and again. With clients all over the US, Canada, and Europe, EBS attributes its success to its corporate mission of building quality, long-term relationships with its customers, while offering products and services that can meet and exceed the changing demands of its users. For more information about EBS and its product offering, please visit their website at www.propricer.com. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch (www.bv.com) is a global leader in the consulting, engineering, construction and operation of what the world needs now and in the future in the crucial areas of energy, water and telecommunications and in providing up-to-the-minute services in the fast changing federal and environmental markets.  Founded in 1915, the employee-owned, $2.3 billion company operates out of more than 110 offices worldwide and has completed projects in more than 100 countries.

Denni Griffith
Vice President of Marketing
Executive Business Services
43398 Business Park Drive
Temecula, CA 92590
Toll-Free: (800) 507-9980
email: dgriffith@propricer.com

ProPricer, the industry’s leading choice for commercial off the shelf federal contracting cost proposal pricing, cost analysis, and source selection has launched a new online product presentation schedule to the public. With products designed for Medium to Large Contractors, Federal Agencies, and Small Business, ProPricer delivers improved performance, smarter processes, and contracting efficiency that has grabbed the attention of 9 of the top 10 industry players for over 25 years.

To see our calendar of scheduled events and reserve your seat for a complimentary, live viewing of the “product in action”, please click here, or visit our product presentation calendar from our home page at www.propricer.com

We invite you to see for yourself on how ProPricer can alleviate many of everyday proposal challenges companies are facing today. Learn how to improve your proposal generation, negotiation, and analysis with improved speed and agility, while maintaining accuracy and flexibility and “doing more with less”.

As an industry leader in cost proposal tools, ProPricer serves as a multi-user platform where functional groups can collaborate within the same data set, real-time.  As an alternative to restricted mainframe applications or unstable complex spreadsheets, ProPricer offers users an easy-to-use interface, robust database design, advanced import and export features, and the ability to perform and create complex “what if” analysis and custom reports in minutes.

“ProPricer fits naturally amongst manufacturing and engineering companies”, said Joseph Shurance, EBS CEO.  “We are looking forward to helping Babcock (NZ) Limited in support of their ongoing contracting successes with a tool that can maximize proposal accuracy and output.”

About Executive Business Services
As an application solutions provider focusing on meeting the needs of the growing Information Technology marketplace, EBS continues to successfully build, easy-to-use commercial off-the-shelf applications for various industry markets. EBS’s industry proven ProPricer proposal pricing application suite has been helping contract management organizations standardize and manage the cost proposal process, thereby improving productivity and profitability time and again. With clients all over the US, Canada, and Europe, EBS attributes its success to its corporate mission of building quality, long-term relationships with its customers, while offering products and services that can meet and exceed the changing demands of its users. For more information about EBS and its product offering, please visit their website at www.propricer.com. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

About Babcock (NZ) Limited
Babcock (NZ) Limited, part of the UK based Babcock International Group, is New Zealand’s largest marine engineering support services company, delivering a comprehensive range of specialist engineering and repair services. . Certified to AS/NZS ISO 9001:2008, Babcock combines a tradition of engineering excellence with a forward thinking, innovative approach, carefully tailored to the needs of the customer.

For more information, please contact:

Denni Griffith
Vice President of Marketing
Executive Business Services
43398 Business Park Drive
Temecula, CA 92590
Toll-Free: (800) 507-9980
Fax: (951) 693-0446
www.propricer.com
email: dgriffith@propricer.com

Contact:
Babcock (NZ) Limited
Private Bag 32903
Devonport, Auckland 0744
New Zealand
Phone: 00 64 9 446 1999
Web: www.babcocknz.co.nz
Email: enquiries@babcocknz.co.nz

Due to ‘significant deficiencies’ discovered in a DCMA earned value management system audit, NAVSEA announced last month that it is penalizing shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls by withholding 5% of its progress payments on the $697 million ship building contract for the Arleigh Burke class destroyer.  Unless Ingalls is able to quickly correct the deficiencies, the penalty could amount to tens of millions of dollars.  The DCMA found ‘systemic and material internal control weaknesses” in 19 of the 32 earned value guidelines that crossed each of the five EVM areas.

The government’s action confirms DOD’s intent to use the payment withholding sanctions included in the May 2011 update to DFARS 252.242-7005.  In addition to a company’s Earned Value Management System, the clause enables payment withholding penalties for significant deficiencies found in a company’s Material Management and Accounting System, Cost Accounting, Purchasing, Property Management and Cost Estimating System.  If a company is notified of significant deficiencies in more than one business system audit, the withholding penalties could reach 10% of its progress payments, performance based payments and cost vouchers.

Companies need to know if their government contract or flow-down from a prime contractor make them subject to business system audits.  Compliance with the six business system requirements can be proactive or reactive.  When compliance consists of a corrective action plan in response to adverse audit findings and punitive payment withholding the costs are much greater.

By helping to reliably and consistently generate verifiable, supportable, documented and timely cost estimates ProPricer software is an integral part of many companies’ compliant Cost Estimating System.  ProPricer software and ProPricer Consulting have helped companies prepare for Cost Estimating System audits and implement corrective action plans when deficiencies surface.  For more information on how ProPricer can increase proposal accuracy, efficiency, and productivity, please take a closer look by clicking here

In response to a recent DoD IG review, Director of Defense Pricing Shay Assad issued a memorandum to Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition executives and the directors of defense agencies and field activities requiring personnel to obtain and review cost and price analysis for spare parts before exercising an option under firm-fixed priced contracts.

Finally, Contracting officers must perform cost or price analysis of the proposed spare parts using an appropriate sampling technique or requesting field pricing assistance.  The contracting officer must include the results of the cost or price analysis in the contract file, and consider the results before exercising any options, Assad concluded.

When reviewing the new policy, makers of ProPricer Government Edition (GE) are quick to highlight the rich feature set of the application, reminding Contracting Offices that ProPricer Government Edition (GE) offers teams a collaborative database environment where bidder cost elements, from resources to parts, can be analyzed in a variety of different ways and at different levels with ease.  The product’s “Project” feature group allows evaluators to set up and review multiple offerors side-by-side, including a sample, in a fraction of a time it takes to compile a complex network of spreadsheets, thereby saving valuable man hours, increasing accuracy, and leaving more time for critical analysis of the data.

For more information on ProPricer Government Edition, please review our product overview page online at http://www.propricer.com/products/for-federal-agencies/.