Booz Allen helps federal agencies transition their network services

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN'S ISP NEWS REPORT
09/21/05
Today's focus: Booz Allen helps federal agencies transition
their network services

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Today's focus: Booz Allen helps federal agencies transition
their network services

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Whenever you switch to a new ISP, you're faced with the tricky
issue of transitioning your network services from one carrier to
another. Consulting giant Booz Allen has built a sizeable
practice helping federal and commercial customers plan and
execute these transitions.

The company recently won a contract from the U.S. federal
government to be the primary provider of transition support
services for Networx, a 10-year, $20 billion telecommunications
services program due for award next summer
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/032805-contract.html?rl>.

"We are working with the General Services Administration to map
out how all the agencies should approach transition," says John
Feeney, a principal with Booz Allen's Systems and Communications
Organization who is overseeing the company's Networx-related
transition planning efforts. "We see ourselves as helping the
various agencies capture all the benefits that will be available
to them under Networx."

Feeney says agencies can expect to see cost savings on Networx
when compared to the predecessor FTS 2001 program and that the
cost savings will happen faster for agencies with well-planned
and well-executed transitions.

"We're helping with all the hoops the agencies need to jump
through to make the transition in an expedient and
cost-effective manner so they can accrue the benefits and
minimize the pain," Feeney says.

Already, Booz Allen is consulting with the Federal Aviation
Administration and the U.S. Postal Service on Networx-related
transition planning. Bids on Networx are due in early October,
with an award anticipated by the summer of 2006.

"Annually, we have $30 million to $50 million worth of
transition support type of work," Feeney says.

Feeney says it's essential for services such as transition
support, billing validation and program management to be
provided by outside experts such as Booz Allen.

"It makes sense for those services to be separate because you're
really overseeing the carrier in those roles," Feeney says.
"Having the fox guarding the hen house doesn't work."

With the Networx program, Booz Allen anticipates a significant
amount of work helping federal agencies conduct competitive
procurements to choose among the Networx contractors for their
network services. In the past, GSA assigned agencies to
particular FTS 2001 carriers.

Booz Allen predicts many agencies will use the Networx program
as a means of consolidating their network infrastructures,
rather than running separate voice, data and video networks.

"Consolidation is a powerful driver of efficiency," Feeney says.
"MPLS and newer technologies are the obvious choices. Instead of
seeing like-to-like network transitions, we expect to see
agencies moving forward on consolidation."

Booz Allen provides similar transition planning services to
commercial companies, particularly in support of mergers and
acquisitions. Booz Allen also supports what could be the
nation's largest network consolidation effort with the creation
of the Department of Homeland Security.

"Only a handful of corporate customers are the size of a federal
agency," Feeney says. "We are using the experience that we've
learned dealing with transition issues of the scope and
magnitude of the federal government for our multinational
customers. That experience sets us apart from everybody else.
There are not a huge number of organizations that can plan out a
network consolidation for a 165,000 employee organization."

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