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Unissant

Unissant, Inc., formerly b.i.methods or BIMethods, is an American information technology company with offices in Herndon, Virginia and Houston, Texas.[1]

History

Unissant was founded on August 19, 1999 under the name b.i.methods (or BIMethods). The company was a protege to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) under the Treasury Mentor-Protege program.[2]

On May 1, 2010, President & CEO Manish Malhotra announced the company's name had changed to Unissant.[3]

COVID-19

On February 6, 2020, ISeeYouCare announced it had entered a strategic partnership with Unissant for the company’s award-winning Universal Smart Health Card Data Management System, a health tracking technology.[4]

In November 2020, Unissant was awarded a $182.3 million contract to support the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP)’s passenger vetting systems with the Targeting and Analysis Systems Program Directorate (TASPD). This contract was awarded under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) CIO-SP3 Small Business Government Wide Acquisition Vehicle.[5] The company is partnered on the project with Linkware and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).

Unissant also won a $47.2 million order to develop analysis and targeting software in addition to managing the CBP's “big data” cluster. Centrifuge and Rock Elm are partnered with Unissant for the second award.[6]

On June 25, 2021, Unissant announced it had won a $37.4 million contract with the Center for Program Integrity under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) "to provide support services to Electronic Submission of Medical Documentation (esMD)." Chags Health Information Technology (C-HIT) was brought on as a subcontractor.[7]

Organization

Unissant has received many contracts with the United States Federal Government and financial institutions.

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Manish Malhotra Chairman & CEO, former President[3:1] Virgina Innovation Partnership Corporation, TiE-DC, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, TrainEdge, BT Group, AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Intelligent Systems, Escorts[8]
Kenneth Bonner President & CGO[9] American Council for Technology - Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), Standard Technology, Accenture Federal Services, MHS Genesis, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), Meta Solutions, IBM, United States Air Force (USAF), Tricare, Bonner Healthcare Recruiting, Emdeon Practice Services, Shands HealthCare, Misys Healthcare Systems, Imed Systems & Consulting
Parvez Ahmed VP Finance[10] Marshall Communications, Management Information Consulting, RAS Investments
Monty D'Ambrosio SVP Business Development[11] United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CSRA, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), United States Navy, GovCIO, A Square Group, Aquilent, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Northrop Grumman, Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE)
Vishal Deshpande Chief Data & Advanced Analytics Officer FI Consulting, Armedia, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Terence Di Benigno Senior Vice President, Business Development (former)[12] United States Department of Homeland Security (HHS), MAXIMUS, American Council for Technology - Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Northern Virginia Technology Council
Stephen Gehring VP Health IT & Federal Civilian Business Unit[13] Fannie Mae
Sean Gilman VP National Security Business Unit[14] Brillient, Unisys, Quasars, ECS Federal, Germane Systems
Macon Hardy SVP Business Development[15] Cherokee Federal, Defense Health Agency, United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Booz Allen Hamilton
Beth Hiatt SVP Operations & Delivery (former)[16] PayPal, b2t Solutions, Fannie Mae, ProLink Services
Sean Kelley Executive Vice President, IT/Dev Operations (former)[17] United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Leidos, United States Navy, United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Senior Executive Service, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Office of Attending Physician, SANS Institute, Government Innovation Technology Executive Council (GITEC)
Sumeet Shrivastava Member of the Board of Advisors[18] ANSTEC, Keane Federal Systems, Array Information Technology, CGI Federal, TiE-DC, Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation, GO Virginia, George Mason University, NTT, George Mason University Foundation, WashingtonExec, Children's Science Center, Northern Virginia Technology Council
Rob Simmons Cybersecurity Practice Lead[19] Mitre Corporation, United States Air Force, Odyssey of the Mind
Travis Szabo Senior Vice President, Business Development (former)[20] Octo Consulting, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), CSRA
Jango Unwalla Chief Knowledge Officer Optimos
Andrea Wright Capture Manager[21] WashingtonExec
Jay Wright Senior Program Director; VP of Financial Services (former)[22] Actualize Consulting, Freddie Mac, Opt2Web Technologies, Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Clients

Unissant's clients include:[2:1][23][24]

  • Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
  • Defense Health Agency (DHA)
  • Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA)
  • Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
  • Farm Service Agency (FSA)
  • Federal Acquisition Service (FAS)
  • General Services Administration (GSA)
  • Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH)
  • Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (ASA)
  • United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • United States Department of Defense (DOD)
  • United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  • United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  • United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • United States Department of the Army
  • United States Department of the Interior
  • United States Department of the Treasury
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • United States Mint
  • United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Partners

Unissant's partners have included:[25][26][27][28][21:1][29][30][31]

  • Accordion Health
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Automation Anywhere
  • Confluent
  • Databricks
  • Deloitte
  • Google Cloud
  • Harness
  • Hortonworks
  • IBM
  • ISeeYouCare
  • MicroPact
  • Microsoft
  • MicroStrategy
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Oracle
  • Qlik
  • Salesforce
  • SAS Institute
  • ServiceNow
  • Splunk
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Tableau Software
  • UiPath
  • Unqork
  • VersionOne
  • VMware Tanzu
  • Zscaler

  1. Contact Us. Unissant Corporate Website. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.05.23-201440/https://unissant.us/contact/ ↩︎

  2. UNISSANT, INC. (2014). FedMine. https://web.archive.org/web/20220524015340/http://cloud.fedmine.us.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/userDownloadedfiles/Co_DUNS_623884660-UNISSANT_INC_1395683284_212574.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. Malhotra, M. (2010, May 1). b.i.methods is now Unissant (message from President). Unissant. http://archive.today/2010.09.05-142453/http://www.unissant.com/news_detail.aspx?id=16 ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. Unissant Inc. (2020, February 6). ISeeYouCare, Inc. Announces Strategic Alliance Partnership with Unissant, Inc. GlobeNewswire News Room. http://archive.today/2022.05.24-013324/https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/02/06/1981106/0/en/ISeeYouCare-Inc-Announces-Strategic-Alliance-Partnership-with-Unissant-Inc.html ↩︎

  5. Rivers, B. M. (2020, November 16). Unissant Team Wins $182M CBP Vetting Tech Support Contract; Manish Malhotra Quoted. GovCon Wire. http://archive.today/2022.05.24-011121/https://www.govconwire.com/2020/11/unissant-team-wins-182m-cbp-vetting-tech-support-contract-manish-malhotra-quoted/ ↩︎

  6. Rivers, B. M. (2020, October 13). Unissant Books $230M in CBP Task Orders for Analytics, Targeting System Modernization Services. GovCon Wire. http://archive.today/2022.05.24-012031/https://www.govconwire.com/2020/10/unissant-books-230m-in-cbp-task-orders-for-analytics-targeting-system-modernization-services/ ↩︎

  7. Meagher, J. (2021, July 25). Unissant Awarded $37.4 Million CMS Contract to support Electronic Submission of Medical Documentation (esMD). Unissant. http://archive.today/2021.07.25-183748/https://www.unissant.us/esmd-contract-award/ ↩︎

  8. Experience - Manish Malhotra. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/manish-malhotra/details/experience/ ↩︎

  9. Ken Bonner, LFACHE. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenbonner/details/experience/ ↩︎

  10. Parvez Ahmed. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/parvez-ahmed-a51707180/ ↩︎

  11. Experience | Monty D’Ambrosio. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/monty-d-ambrosio-118b836/details/experience/ ↩︎

  12. Meagher, J. (2019, September 30). Terence Di Benigno joins Unissant as Senior Vice President, Business Development. Unissant Corporate Website. https://archive.ph/NudFx ↩︎

  13. Stephen Gehring, PMP, CSM. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephengehring/ ↩︎

  14. Sean Gilman. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/seangilman/ ↩︎

  15. Experience | Macon Hardy. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/macon-hardy-4a4a316/details/experience/ ↩︎

  16. Beth Hiatt. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-hiatt-3177a710/ ↩︎

  17. Meagher, J. (2018, November 16). IT and Cybersecurity Expert Sean Kelley Joins Unissant as EVP, IT/Dev Operations. Unissant Corporate Website. http://archive.today/2022.05.23-203132/https://unissant.us/sean-kelley-joins-unissant/ ↩︎

  18. Sumeet Shrivastava. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumeetshrivastava/ ↩︎

  19. Rob Simmons. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-a-simmons/ ↩︎

  20. Meagher, J. (2019, July 15). Unissant bolsters leadership team, adds Travis Szabo as Senior Vice President. Unissant Corporate Website. https://archive.ph/UjSpj ↩︎

  21. Partners & Affiliates. Unissant. Retrieved October 23, 2015, from http://archive.today/2015.10.23-034537/http://unissant.us/partners/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  22. Jay Wright, PMP. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-wright-pmp-6944a37/ ↩︎

  23. UNISSANT INC. Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Retrieved July 16, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.07.16-045610/https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6be4bd04-2ddc-4a60-2485-c6c3912f2056-C/latest ↩︎

  24. UNISSANT INC. Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Retrieved July 16, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.07.16-050037/https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6be4bd04-2ddc-4a60-2485-c6c3912f2056-C/all ↩︎

  25. News. Bimethods, Inc. Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Metadata Management. Retrieved April 9, 2008, from http://archive.today/2008.04.09-110747/http://www.bimethods.com/bimethodsprtl/content.asp?contenttype=News ↩︎

  26. Partners & Alliances. Bimethods, Inc. Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Metadata Management. Retrieved April 9, 2008, from https://web.archive.org/web/20080409110727/http://www.bimethods.com/bimethodsprtl/content.asp?CatId=214&ContentType=Company ↩︎

  27. Partners & Affiliates. Unissant Corporate Website. Retrieved May 23, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.05.24-010732/https://unissant.us/partners/ ↩︎

  28. Partners & Affiliates. Unissant. Retrieved July 16, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.07.16-033101/https://unissant.us/partners/ ↩︎

  29. Partners & Affiliates. Unissant. Retrieved November 4, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20161104074736/http://unissant.us/partners/ ↩︎

  30. Partners & Affiliates. Unissant. Retrieved July 22, 2017, from http://archive.today/2017.07.22-233501/http://unissant.us/partners/ ↩︎

  31. Partners & Affiliates. Unissant. Retrieved September 25, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200925193709/https://www.unissant.us/partners/ ↩︎