VARGIS Selected by RBF Consulting for
Geospatial Services Agreement

STERLING, VA, March, 2005 – RBF Consulting (RBF) has selected VARGIS to provide a comprehensive range of geospatial services for various local government projects. VARGIS entered into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with RBF to provide professional services for GIS implementation, application development and data management services.

Ranked #76 in the ENR Top 500, RBF is a prestigious engineering, consulting and professional services firm focused on local government and transportation industry with over 800 employees in 13 offices across the Western United States.

For the past year, VARGIS has been providing rights-of-way mapping services to RBF utilizing scanned images of original platted parcels and rights-of-way. The source documents for the rights-of-way dates back to the late 19th century. VARGIS’ services includes COGO data entry, georeferencing source documents, conflict resolution of various source documents, featured attribution and feature quality control. VARGIS used Autodesk Land Desktop for data automation of vector data and AutoCAD Raster Design for georeferencing imagery to the surveyed coordinates. The project was delivered per township with the intent of developing a seamless GIS database in ArcGIS.

VARGIS has also provided professional services to map complex water distribution systems for RBF in support of water master plan projects using ESRI ArcGIS and AutoDesk platforms.

RBF Consulting’ Senior Project Manager, Steve Ries said, "In selecting a data management partner, RBF looked for a company with a wide variety of experience in all aspects of GIS implementation. VARGIS not only demonstrated their skills but also created a trust between our firms that provided value to our partnership. RBF looks forward to achieving corporate objectives and providing unparalleled customer service through partnerships such as the RBF & VARGIS partnership. We look forward to future successes with VARGIS as our partner."

VARGIS President Mr. Greg Tilley adds, "RBF is an important client to VARGIS. The selection of VARGIS recognizes that strong project management backed by proven processes, a commitment to quality and the capacity to deliver a variety of services for data acquisition and data manipulation, project management, and software development are cornerstones to delivery of a total solution to the RBF clients. VARGIS looks forward to supporting RBF’s continued success in the local government sector."

For more information, contact Rajesh Nambiar at rajesh@vargis.com

About VARGIS LLC

VARGIS, founded in 1995, is a global geospatial consulting and professional services firm with an industry reputation for delivering complex geospatial solutions. VARGIS provides a wide range of cost effective IT, GIS, and digital mapping services in the areas of geospatial software development, customization, integration, data management and photogrammetry. VARGIS, an Infotech Enterprises Company, has offices in Sterling, VA; Avon, IN; and Denver, CO. For more information, please visit www.vargis.com.

About RBF Consulting
RBF Consulting provides services to government agencies for planning, design and construction of the built environment. For over 60 years RBF has been recognized as one of the most respected firms for civil engineering, planning, surveying and related services in the nation, The firm maintains thirteen offices with over 800 employees in the western United States, performing consulting services nationally and internationally. More at www.RBF.com.