InfoZen wins large TSA contract

Rockville, Maryland-based solutions provider InfoZen has just received a $144 million TSA contract to run a system that checks and verifies the identities of all transportation workers. This automated system will include everyone from workers at airport workers to crew members at the nation’s ports. This contract is for eighteen months with four one-year options. InfoZen received this contract after TSA changed the terms and restricted bids for the contract to small companies. IBM used to hold the contract for three years, but is now part of the InfoZen team which also includes Fairfax, Virginia-based ManTech, Denver, Colorado-based Ciber, and Knoxville, Tennessee-based GEM Technologies. With this contract InfoZen will work as the main troubleshooter, provide virus protection, and administer databases.

Led by CEO Raj Ananthanpillai, InfoZen is a twelve year old company, and is beginning to grow at a more rapid pace. They have already opened a second office in Colorado Springs, Coloarado where at least 50 percent of this contract work will be done. The other work will be done at their Rockville office. Ananthanpillai expects over the next five years for annual revenue to grow between $200 million and $300 million, at which point he says the next step for the company would be to go public. The company now has seventy employees, and depending on new contracts it expects to grow to one hundred by the end of the year.