The Dayton Group
Founded in 1988, The Dayton Group (TDG), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), is a consortium of entrepreneurial principals and associates who are highly experienced project and program management professionals. Based in Dayton Ohio, TDG provides tailored and customized project management consulting and training services to a range of private sector and government clients at cost effective prices. Key individuals are certified as Project Management Professionals (PMP) by The Project Management Institute (PMI). TDG is a PMI Registered Education Provider offering services consistent with the international project management standards promulgated by PMI. The principals and associates represent a varied background of leadership experience in both private sector and federal and state government project management. Specialization areas include: New Product Development and Deployment, Information Technology Project Management, Enterprise Process Improvement and Re-Engineering, Education and Training Course Development, and In-Service Support Planning and Logistics Support. TDG personnel are both experienced project managers and classroom teachers at the college and graduate levels. TDG brings real world experience to the classroom or workshop.
Core Capabilities
Database Design and Administration and Data Storage Management: The function of composing records, each containing fields together with a set of operations for searching sorting, recombining, and other functions. This includes determination of content, internal structure, and access strategy for a database, as well as defining security and integrity, and monitoring performance. A database is considered to be a collection of information organized in such a way that a computer program can quickly select desired pieces of data.
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Electronic Commerce (EC) and Electronic Data Interchange Support: functions include, but are not limited to electronic exchange of requests for quotations, quotes, purchase orders, notices of award, electronic payments, document interchange, supporting databases, and other activities associated with the procurement and payment process.
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Independent Verification and Validation: Shall provide technical resources to define, develop, and conduct Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) Tests to assess: 1) the capacity of BPR to improve system services and capabilities; 2) Software Life Cycle Management (SLCM) functions; 3) the support provided for electronic commerce; and 4) other IV&V as required or identified in TO. Validation tests shall be designed to ensure that the software developed fully addresses the requirements established to provide specific system operation functions and capabilities. Verification testing shall be designed to determine whether the software code is logically correct for the operation functions for which it was designed.
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Information Architecture Analysis and Web Object Indexing: Analysis of the hardware and/or software, or a combination of hardware and software, of a system. The architecture of a system always defines its broad outlines, and may define precise mechanisms as well. Web Object Indexing is a website intended to enable a user to obtain other resources on the web. The web index may contain a search facility or may merely contain individual hyperlinks to the resources indexed.
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Information Management Life Cycle Planning/Support:
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Integration Support: Assistance in assembling diverse hardware and/or software components together to work as a system.
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Internet System Architecture and Webmaster Support:
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Performance Measures and Metrics Planning:
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Systems Management Support:
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Test and Evaluation Support:
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Training, Training Development, and Training Center Support (including Computer Based Training):
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Disaster Recovery, Continuity of Operations, and Contingency Planning: Provide disaster recovery, continuity of operations, and contingency planning support, including those for software applications, which are processed on various computer platforms (e.g., personal computers, mainframes, and mini-computers.
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Hardware and Software Maintenance and /or Licensing: Provide for software/hardware maintenance and/or software licenses from 3rd party vendors in support of tasks falling within this functional area.
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Systems Vulnerability Analysis/Assessment and Risk Assessment:
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System and Software Design, Development, Engineering, and Integration: A set of activities that results in software products. Software development may include new development, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products. Providing for project management, planning, design, building and implementation of client specific applications, taking responsibility for achieving contractually specified results.
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Information Technology (IT) Strategic Planning, Program Assessment, and Studies: Provide resources to support in the development, analysis, and implementation of IT strategies, architectures, program planning and assessment, and risk, trade-off, requirements, alternatives, and feasibility studies that advance the goals and objectives of the Government.
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Business Process Reengineering: Provide resources to support in the development, analysis, and implementation of improvements in the flow of business, work, and program processes and tool utilization.
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Chief Information Officer (CIO) Support: Typically, a CIO is involved with analyzing and reworking existing business processes, with identifying and developing the capability to use new tools, with reshaping the enterprise's physical infrastructure and network access, and with identifying and exploiting the enterprise's knowledge resources. Many CIOs head the enterprise's efforts to integrate the Internet and the World Wide Web into both its long-term strategy and its immediate business plans.
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Global Information Systems:
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Software Life Cycle Management (SLCM): Provide resources to support any or all phases and stages of SLCM, including planning, analysis, troubleshooting, integration, acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance, training, documentation, and administration. The Contractor may be responsible for obtaining and/or supporting the necessary software, hardware, firmware, resources, etc. required for a system project.
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Customer Relationship Management: CRM entails all aspects of interaction a company has with its customer, whether it is sales or service related.
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Information Technology Architecture (ITA) Support:
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Infrastructure Quality Assurance:
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