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BSI2000 Awarded Homeland Security Contract
DENVER, April 14 -- BSI2000, Inc., a leading developer of high-end access
control security systems for commercial and governmental use, announced
today that it has been awarded a contract for its Aqua2000(TM) system to
provide security enhancements as outlined by the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) for the J.G. Beacham Water Treatment Plant in Athens, Ga. The
customer is the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County.
The Phase I contract award is for just under $250,000. The company expects
to be awarded Phase II in the near future after certain milestones have been
reached, which would bring the total contract award to about $400,000.
Archer Western Contractors, Ltd. is the prime contractor for the upgrade
project for the water treatment plant. Jordan Jones & Goulding of Athens,
Ga. is the consulting company that recommended the BSI2000 technology.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, DHS and other national
agencies have issued guidance and directives that advise water treatment and
delivery systems to increase their vigilance to protect their infrastructure
from physical attack or sabotage and, especially, to protect against
possible chemical, biological and radiological contamination.
BSI2000 developed its new Aqua2000 Water Treatment Facility Monitoring,
Intrusion Detection and Access Control System to enable treatment and
delivery plants to counter such threats. The system was designed and
developed in conjunction with leading water treatment engineers and
specialists to provide a turnkey package able to monitor, identify and
assess potential threats to the nation's water supply and delivery
infrastructure.
Jack Harper, CEO of BSI2000, said, "This contract marks our first major
success with a public utility. Building on BSI2000's suite of access control
products, we have produced a complete monitoring system for water treatment
plants, pumping stations, water towers, valve stations and intakes. In
short, Aqua2000 provides everything needed to totally protect the entire
water- handling infrastructure of the nation on a turnkey basis."
The desirable and much-needed capabilities of Aqua2000 include its dynamic
ability to adjust its security levels instantaneously to track with the DHS
national terrorist threat advisory levels; its automatic duress fingerprint
alarm notifications; state-of-the-art fingerprint biometrics; and its use of
high bandwidth encrypted security data traffic over the Internet or local
fiber networks to tie remote sites together on a regional, national or even
global basis.
The Aqua2000 system can be installed during new plant construction, into
current facilities, or as a security upgrade into existing monitoring and
control networks. The system gives a facility complete control over its
entire security operation. Even remote sites can be integrated into a
plant's matrix of coverage. The system is easily expandable with numerous
optional modules that enable multiple future upgrade paths. By later adding
optional components, Aqua2000 makes it simple to increase the level of
security as threats change or grow.
Harper continued, "We have filed a number of patent applications designed to
protect the Aqua2000 and other technology that we have developed for the
water infrastructure protective market. BSI2000 has filed 25 individual
patent applications over the last 18 months. I am delighted at the response
that we are seeing from the limited marketing of Aqua2000 we have conducted
in the Atlanta area. We formally announce Aqua2000 today and are just
beginning to roll out the product on a national basis. I believe that
BSI2000 is well positioned with the right technology, partners, marketing
and patent protection to be a major player in the effort to secure the
nation's water treatment and delivery infrastructure. We expect to bid
several similar water infrastructure projects in the near future."
About BSI2000
Based in Lakewood, Colo., BSI2000, Inc. is working to become a global leader
in, especially, optical card-based security systems. The company has
developed patented and patent-pending technology for identifying,
authenticating and tracking people and their activities in a wide variety of
applications. The company's systems involve sophisticated and proprietary
use of optical card technology and advanced cryptology.
The company's CRYPTO2000(TM) system is the only optical card system that
provides the sufficient level of security required for financial
transactions. CRYPTO2000 elevates optical card data security to a highly
secure Federal Government level. In addition to potentially significant
applications for homeland and business security, the systems are highly
applicable for national identity systems, personal medical and prescription
records, banking, travel, and other applications. More information on the
company can be found at http://www.bsi2000.com .
An investment profile on BSI2000 may be found at
http://www.hawkassociates.com/bsi2000/profile.htm.
For investor relations information, contact Frank Hawkins or Julie Marshall,
Hawk Associates at (305) 852-2383, email:
info@hawkassociates.com. Media
contact Ronnie Welch, CWR Partners, email
ronnie@cwrpartners.com or call
(508) 222-4802. Copies of BSI2000 press releases, current Level II price
quotes, interactive and Java stock charts and other valuable information for
investors may be found on the websites
http://www.hawkassociates.com
and http://www.hawkmicrocaps.com.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
"Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release. These statements
relate to future events or our future financial performance. These
statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future
results or events. BSI2000 disclaims any intention or obligation to revise
any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information,
future developments, or otherwise. There are important risk factors that
could cause actual results to differ from those contained in forward-looking
statements, including, but not limited to, risks associated with changes in
general economic and business conditions (including in the technology and
financial information industry), actions of our competitors, the extent to
which we are able to develop new services and markets for our services,
possible failure of products in the market for any number of reasons, the
time and expense involved in such development activities, the level of
demand, failure of patents to adequately protect our products, market
acceptance of our services and changes in our business strategies, and many
others.
Source: BSI2000
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