Beyond 20/20 Now Available on GSA

Five-year US Government Services Agreement ensures fast and easy acquisitions of Beyond 20/20

Ottawa, Canada – November 4, 1999 – Ivation Datasystems Inc. announced today a five-year contract with the US General Services Administration (GSA) to supply the Beyond 20/20 product family to United States Government institutions. Beyond 20/20 is the market-leading family of software products for tabulating and disseminating socioeconomic data.

This new agreement provides the following benefits to US federal and state government customers:

• Pre-approved US Federal Government terms and conditions
• Fast turnaround on orders
• Assured best value because prices have already been negotiated with the GSA
• Streamlined procurement process

Ivation's GSA number is GS-35F-0706J.

"I view this as an important milestone in Beyond 20/20 market acceptance," says Jean Carr, Ivation's Vice President of Marketing and Sales. "It will now be easier than ever for users in government institutions throughout the United States to license Beyond 20/20."

Leading US federal agencies, such as the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Department of Education, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, use Beyond 20/20 for various data tabulation and dissemination applications.

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The GSA is one of three central management agencies in the US federal government. Its mandate is to provide federal employees with expertly managed space, supplies, and services at the best possible value, thus enabling them to accomplish their missions. Since 1949, GSA has housed federal workers and provided products and services to support the important work of government throughout the country. GSA does this by negotiating and managing contracts for some $40 billion worth of goods and services bought annually from the private sector. GSA employs about 15,000 people and has an annual budget of nearly $13 billion. For more information, visit the GSA Web site.

About Beyond 20/20 Inc.

Used worldwide by organizations and individuals who must find the knowledge held in data, Beyond 20/20 is emerging as the world's leading software product for disseminating and exploring numerical data. Beyond 20/20, with its unique characteristics, ease-of-use, and superior performance in publishing, examining, visualizing, and manipulating socioeconomic statistics, provides measurable productivity improvements to both data publishers and data consumers. Through both its product and service divisions, Beyond 20/20 Inc. actively works with its customers to implement and support data access and dissemination solutions and technologies.