1.
GSA Advantage
The Client
The General Services Administration (GSA)
represents the consolidation of four smaller agencies into
one comprehensive Agency. The goals of the GSA are to avoid
"senseless duplication, excess cost, and confusion in
handling supplies," as well as to provide space for the
Government to do its work.
Around the country and throughout the world,
GSA houses Federal workers and provides both products and
services to support the important work of government. With
an annual budget of approximately $16 billion and a staff
of 14,000, GSA influences almost $66 billion in government
financial transactions.
GSA secures the buildings, products, services,
technology, and other workplace essentials federal agencies
need. GSA associates support over one million federal workers
located in 8,000 government-owned and leased buildings in
2,000 U.S. communities and overseas.
The Scenario
To meet the increasing needs of the federal
employee population, the (then) current procurement process
and system (Advantage!) urgently required extensive updating,
as did the existing website.
The new system would be servicing even more
federal workers with a wider range of more technological products.
The new system would require a website that was of the highest
quality: defect-free and flawless in it functioning in order
to smoothly, safely and accurately process the billions of
dollars of orders it sees annually.
The Solution
Brightwebsights (then Techmate, Intl) was
sub-contracted to provide system testing management consulting,
as well as quality assurance management consulting. Extensive
test planning and execution was then performed on the website
under development. Also, a detailed quality assurance program
was developed that addressed the development life-cycle process.
The result was a high-quality, essentially defect-free, accurate
online procurement system that is in use today processing
billions of dollars worth of government vendor products and
services. |
2. Blue Nile
Trading
The Client
In the winter of 1973 from his home in Northwest
Washington, DC., Duku Warren Allen began the manufacture,
wholesale and retail of "Duku's Scentuals," a line
of hand-made incense and perfume oils.
That Spring of 1974, manufacturing and wholesale
operations were moved to a rental space at 2826 Georgia Avenue,
Northwest Washington, DC. Located in the historic Howard University
corridor, Blue Nile has become a premier source of herb, spices,
incense and health supplies from the world over.
In 1977 the retailing of herbs, spices, herbal
preparations and books were added. The building was purchased
in 1982. The support and success of the retail store has made
it possible to acquire another building next door, which is
now Blue Nile Books. The bookstore features books on metaphysics,
traditional African religions, astrology, world religions,
etceteras.
The Scenario
Blue Nile needed a robust, dependable website
that would feature it's sizeable selection of products for
sale online. Which included over 300 herbs and spices, each
with multiple size, weight, form or other variations. The
site would need to be an e-Commerce storefront that would
compliment and supplement the brick and mortar establishment
The Solution
Brightwebsights was contracted to design
and develop an e-commerce website for Blue Nile that would
service the global community and offer added value for the
local customer. The result is a high-quality, defect-free
e-commerce site that offers over two thousand product/size/form
combinations to customers internationally. |
3. No Fear
The Client
On August18, 2000, a federal jury found the
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guilty of violating
the civil rights of Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo on the basis
of race, sex, color and a hostile work environment. Sparked
by the Coleman-Adebayo court victory, demonstrations by EPA
Victims Against Racial Discrimination, actions taken by the
NAACP, substantial press coverage, and two congressional hearings,
Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the powerful
House Judiciary Committee and Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson
Lee introduced the No Fear Act into Congress. On October 2,
2001, the House of Representatives passed this bill unanimously,
in a show of unequivocal bipartisan support - 420/0.
The No Fear Institute is devoted to the education and defense
of victims of employer discrimination in the public and private
sectors. It provides citizen oversight for the implementation
of the No Fear Act.The No Fear Act, is the first civil rights
bill of the third millennium. In addition to protecting victims
of race and sex discrimination, it also provides protection
to employees who expose waste, fraud and abuse - whistle blowers.
The Scenario
The No Fear Institute required a website
that would be used to spread the word about the organization
to EPA employees suffering similar treatment spread throughout
the United States. The website would also serve to provide
the press with press releases and news articles. Finally,
the website would be used as an appeal for contributions for
the non-profit organization.
The Solution
The No Fear Institute website was designed,
developed and published. On it can be found a press kit to
be updated by the Institute. The press kit contains press
releases and news articles. A photo gallery section chronicles
the major events for the Institute. The website also displays
upcoming events that is upgraded at the client's initiative,
as well as providing procedures for addressing violations
of civil and human rights, and informing visitors of the opportunity
to support the organization. |
