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QAI Moves!

QAI recently moved into our new corporate headquarters facility in Maple Lawn, Maryland.

The new, 45,000 square foot class-A office space facility nearly doubles the previous facility in Columbia, Maryland.

Maple Lawn is planned as a traditional neighborhood development and offers more than one million square feet of class-A office space, predesigned with first-class amenities. Located at the intersection of 29 and 216, Maple Lawn also includes more than 1,000 residential units and more than 100,000 square feet of retail space. Check out our new community by visiting www.maplelawnmd.com.

QAI was recently named Howard County Firm of the Year by the Tech Council of Maryland. The award recognizes the firm that has exhibited strong growth of revenue and employment and contributed to the overall advancement of technology in 2006.

Quality Associates received the honor during the Tech Council of Maryland Howard County Annual Dinner and Tech Awards Celebration, held at the Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City on December 7, 2006. Quality Associates’ Founder and CEO, Paul Swidersky, accepted the award from Julie Coons, CEO of Technology Council of Maryland and Renee Winsky, Interim Executive Director of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO).

Effective January 2007, QAI’s announced it’s contract has been renewed with The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. QAI will continue to provide document conversion and management services in support of NIH’s grants program. Upon completion, this five-year contract is potentially worth over $10 million.

Under this contract, Quality Associates will supply all imaging components, staff, and services required to deliver the scanning, PDF conversion and CD-ROM production required to provide electronic copies of tens of thousands of grant proposals for distribution to NIH grant review teams worldwide.

Quality Associates has been providing these services to NIH since 2001. In 2006 alone, Quality Associates processed over 65,000 grant applications exceeding more than eight million pages.

Tiffani Killian has replaced Elizabeth Kocourek as the Sales Support Specialist for the Information Systems Division. Elizabeth has been promoted to the Business Development Team.

Tiffani joins the QAI Team with many years of project management experience and an extensive background in the document management field.

Tiffani will focus heavily on assisting the Project Managers and Sales Executives in systems management, project development, troubleshooting, resource monitoring and the development of quotes, and special sales programs.

Please join us in welcoming Tiffani and congratulating Elizabeth on her promotion!

QAI recently received the award for Top Maintenance Renewal Champion from Kofax, the world’s largest information capture vendor. The award signified achievement based on 2006 calendar year sales, and was presented by Kofax at the company’s annual Transform Partner Conference held in Bonita Springs, Florida earlier this year.

QAI joined the Kofax partner network in 1998. As a Kofax partner, QAI offers its government and commercial clients with top-quality products from Kofax. Kofax solutions automate and accelerate business processes by collecting documents and forms, transforming them into accurate, retrievable information, and delivering it all into business applications, databases, and archives.

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