2007 Press Releases

March 19, 2007

MSGI Corporation headquartered in Tampa Bay selected to provide training to US Marine Corps

Tampa, Florida – MSGI Corporation, a veteran and minority owned company with headquarters in Tampa, Florida and presence in Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and military bases throughout the United States was recently selected and awarded a contract to provide training and systems administration support services to Marine Corps medical units presently operating in Iraq. The contract will be managed by the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC), Information Systems and Infrastructure, Product Group (ISI/PG) located at Quantico, Virginia. This organization is responsible for the life cycle management of numerous information technology solutions in support of the U.S. Marine Corps. The information management system that MSGI has been selected to train and support is being is known by its military name as the Theater Medical Information Program-Lite. The system consists of two components. The first is the latest version of medical and healthcare electronic records software. The second is the hardware which consists of servers, laptops and printers. The software is designed and managed by the Theater Medical Information Program Office in Alexandria, Virginia. The main capability of the software is that of documenting electronically the medical history of sick or wounded Marines. Once the attending physician signs off on the medical history file, the electronic record is transmitted instantaneously via satellite to a central data repository which is accessible to any military physician attending to the patient at one of the Department of Defense major healthcare facilities in the United States and Overseas. Since 2003 MSGI has been providing similar services to Army and Navy medical facilities located in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. With this new contract MSGI will have 25 employees consisting of trainers and Systems Administrators serving a multitude of military facilities operating within Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.

The new contract requires MSGI personnel to set-up and train Navy Corpsmen (medics) serving at several dozen medical treatment facilities set-up through-out Iraq providing routine and emergency medical treatment to US Marines. The two primary products that MSGI will train Navy Corpsmen assigned to the Marines are:

• The Battlefield Medical Information System Tactical (BMIS-T) application
• The Composite Health Care System II Theater (CHCS II T)

BMIST provides medics with the capability of documenting healthcare provided to Marines at the point of injury. It captures all of the medical history of a patient injured in the battlefield. It records among many things the type of injury, type of medication provided and method of evacuation. Once transferred to major medical facility within Iraq the Marine’s healthcare history is updated via CHCS-II-T which provides the capability to document the continuous medical treatment provided to include, medicines, x-ray and any laboratory results.

The estimated value of this small business set-aside contract is a minimum of $ 1.3 Million during the base year of the contract. The contract does allow for Optional Years to be awarded to MSGI based on need and the performance of MSGI. MSGI currently provides similar services to U.S. Army, US Navy and the Department of Defense through a number of active contracts worth over $12 Million. MSGI has been at the forefront of installing and training medical and healthcare electronic records for the Department of Defense. This is a capability and experience that it proposes to bring to the local commercial sector in the very near future

For Additional Information Contact:

Carlos Aviles, Contracts Manager
MSGI Corporation
1511 North WestShore Blvd., Tampa, Florida 33607
Tel. (813) 7698073 or at caviles@msgicorp.com