Privia Partners With Onvia Government Contractors Have Easy Access to $5.5 Trillion Public Sector Market

HERNDON, Va., Aug. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Privia, the leader in government contracting lifecycle solutions and services, today announced a partnership with Onvia, a leading provider of comprehensive government business market intelligence.

The strategic relationship enables customers of both solutions to harness the power of two of the leading providers to the government contractor marketplace. With a single click, users have the ability to easily import government opportunity information from Onvia directly into the Privia proposal management solution. This process gives companies the ability to easily review all available information during the bid/no bid decision-making phase. Upon decision, all of the collected information is available to the capture and proposal team for pursuit.

"Privia has a long history and loyal customers." said Henry "Hank" Riner, President and CEO of Onvia. "It is exciting to partner with them at a time when they are quickly growing their customer base and adding to their service offerings."

"Onvia's tools and information allow vendors to compete effectively for public sector contracts," said Glenn Giles, President and CEO of Privia.  "Onvia's strengths, particularly in the architecture, engineering, construction, and transportation sectors-areas that we are targeting for growth -made them an excellent fit.  We are looking forward to a long, mutually beneficial relationship."

About Onvia
For more than 12 years Onvia (Nasdaq: ONVI), has been successfully delivering the research, analytics and tools companies rely on to develop winning government business strategies. Onvia tracks, analyzes and reports the spending of tens of thousands of state and local government agencies, giving companies a single source for conducting open, intelligent and efficient business with government. Along with providing an exclusive suite of integrated business tools for a wide variety of industries, Onvia offers DemandStar, the automated system that streamlines agency procurement processes. Onvia was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For information about Onvia visit www.onvia.com.

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About Privia LLC
Privia provides an array of products to help organizations streamline the entire bid, capture and proposal process-from pipeline management and reporting to teammate collaboration and proposal development. Leading organizations such as CSC, Management Concepts, Merlin International, MicroTech, Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) and USIS are streamlining processes to save time and money in areas such as bids and proposals, past performance management, contract management and claims processing. Privia also offers a team of proposal experts who are available to augment your proposal team.


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