IMMEDIATE RELEASE

College Park, MD - June 30, 2010 - In recent years, Optimal Solutions Group (Optimal) has taken on critical projects at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Leveraging its innovative approaches, Optimal has a policy perspective that understands its clients’ goals and objectives while applying information technology solutions.

As a "translator," Optimal is building sustainable, cost-effective, open source, and non-proprietary systems to reduce unnecessary labor costs and implement consistent monitoring and data collection efforts. These systems save clients time, money, and resources. Recently, Optimal built a secure online application used to collect and maintain data in support of the National Center on Service Obligations. This tool allows the standardization of data upon entry and the ability for Optimal to analyze and report up-to-date information to the client on a daily basis. In addition, Optimal has designed and built applications to facilitate compliance monitoring tasks and implement systematic reviews for CMS. These applications allow clients to monitor and review their programs.

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Founded in 2000, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC is a non-partisan public policy research firm dedicated to rigorous and evidence-based research. Optimal's clients are local, state, and federal governments; non-governmental organizations; and corporations and foundations. Located in the M Square Research Park, Optimal has grown quickly by building on a reputation of exceptional services and products. Our clients benefit from our innovations, value, and efficiency, which we have been able to establish through a robust technology-based infrastructure, uncompromising and documented quality-control procedures, and effective employee recruitment techniques. Optimal has four research centers: health, education, workforce development, and housing.

For more information, please contact Optimal's Communications Department at 301.306.1170 or info@optimalsolutionsgroup.com.