MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg company was one of more than 40 service-disabled, veteran-owned businesses awarded a U.S. General Services Administration government-wide contract potentially worth $5 billion over the next several years, the agency has announced.
HMS Technologies Inc., headquartered in a historic downtown red brick building at 206 W. Burke St., was the only West Virginia firm deemed to be qualified to provide information technology services to various federal agencies, company president and CEO Harry M. Siegal confirmed.
"It's a license to hunt - $5 billion," said Siegal, describing the award as "historic" and somewhat like getting a "clean bill of health" for the company from GSA, the centralized procurement agency created by Congress to improve government efficiency. The office, among other duties, acquires office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services on behalf of federal agencies.
Siegal anticipated the announcement would allow his three-year-old company to provide long-term job opportunities in Berkeley County and possibly employ more than 1,000 people in the coming years.