4tell™ Selected by U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs
Portland, ME and Washington, DC, May 27, 2011 – 4tell™ Solutions, LLC, (“4tell™”) a leading provider of Sustainable Performance Governance Solutions, has been awarded a multi-year contract by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). This contract, which was awarded through 4tell’s U.S. General Service Administration Schedule FAC03 Contract, provides BIA with portfolio-wide condition and lifecycle assessments, space utilization and functional adequacy studies, as well as comprehensive inventory validation services across its built environment.
BIA is responsible for over 27 million square feet of owned and leased facilities comprised of 5,700+ buildings in more than 350 locations nationwide. These properties include a wide array of building types including administrative, residence quarters and schools. BIA is taking a leadership role in developing deeper understanding of its built environment to best enable capital investment strategies to reduce and manage costs, ensure compliance and achieve energy and sustainability goals and objectives.
4tell is using iPlan™, its proprietary patent pending Sustainable Performance Governance technology platform, to deliver its consulting services and technical expertise. 4tell’s service delivery partners for the project, EMG and Keres Consulting, will use iPlan™ to support the validation of all existing capital project backlog, identify and evaluate new capital project requirements, verify the accuracy of cost estimates and provide the business rules and quality assurance processes necessary to ensure comprehensive, complete and consistent data capture. iPlan™.remote will be deployed to support remote services and field data capture to produce seamless and efficient data processing. iPlan™ will enable BIA to optimize its capital investment strategies by aligning project prioritization with BIA’s organizational goals to meet both the near term objectives, as well as its long-term strategic vision.
“4tell welcomes the opportunity to partner with BIA for this important project. We are committed to helping BIA develop capital investment strategies to best manage their built environment to meet their evolving needs and ongoing business requirements,” said Jim Kavanagh, President and CEO at 4tell. ”4tell’s offerings bring real value to our Federal Government clients who want to achieve a more “sustainable” future but understand the reality of operating in a “bottom-line” results driven environment where everyone is being asked to do more with less.”
4tell’s Sustainable Performance Governance Solutions have provided numerous federal, state and local agencies with industry best-practice tools and methodologies to analyze data to create knowledge and enable strategic decision making. 4tell empowers its clients with the ability to adapt to changing scenarios and evolving conditions to deliver bottom-line results and sustainable optimized performance for their built environment.
About 4tell Solutions, LLC --- 4tell™ is a recognized leader in delivering technology solutions that help solve today’s challenges in planning, operating, managing and sustaining the built environment. 4tell’s innovative technology enables informed strategic decisions for Sustainable Performance Governance. 4tell optimizes performance by aligning strategies with goals and objectives across the pillars of Sustainability – Economic, Energy, and Environmental & Social – empowering organizations to create knowledge, transparency, and accountability. Combining leading strategic management methods with proven engineering, economic, and analysis models, 4tell helps organizations develop and prioritize strategic capital and financial investment strategies and decisions, reduce expenses and mitigate risks, increase operational efficiency, improve energy efficiency and environmental performance, and promote stewardship and accountability – delivering bottom line results and optimal performance. To learn more about 4tell, please visit www.4tellsolutions.com.