MCLEAN, Va., April 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- WidePoint
Corporation (NYSE Mkt: WYY), a leading provider of Managed Mobility
Services (MMS) specializing in Cybersecurity and Telecommunications
Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions, announced today that it has
been awarded approximately $16
million in new and option year contract awards for our
public sector TLM services in the first quarter of 2017.
Jin Kang, chief operations
officer of WidePoint, said, "These awards continue to demonstrate
the success we are having within our public sector marketplace. Our
strategic goal of expanding our public sector and federal base of
business remains a key revenue driver as we continue to work to
broaden our public sector customer base in 2017. As we enter the
second quarter of 2017 we look forward to capturing other
Department-level and enterprise-wide private sector contract
vehicles to expand our reach within these key market segments for
WidePoint."
During the first quarter of 2017, the public sector awards
represented two new task orders, three logical follow-on task
orders, and 11 option year exercises, with all work to be performed
in the current year.
Jeff Nyweide, chief executive
officer of WidePoint, said, "We provide critical TLM services to
organizations that want to aggressively reduce their
telecommunications spend, while securing and improving their
control over the various devices that are being deployed within
their ever-expanding mobile environments. Our custom-made and
unique service provides these public sector customers a federally
approved platform, offering control, costs savings, and superior
past performance that is demanded to meet their complex
requirements. We are pleased with the progress we are making in
support of our public sector customers, and we also continue to
make progress in expanding our commercial efforts and in managing
the convergence we currently see as we secure the multitudes of
devices being used throughout these enterprise environments."
About WidePoint
WidePoint is a leading provider of secure, cloud-delivered,
enterprise-wide information technology-based solutions that can
enable enterprises and agencies to deploy fully compliant IT
services in accordance with government mandated regulations and
advanced system requirements. WidePoint has several major
government and commercial contracts. For more information, visit
www.widepoint.com.
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