For Immediate Release

Newark, NJ (September 6, 2006) -- BCT Partners has established a strategic alliance partnership with Plexus Scientific (www.PlexSci.com). The two firms collaborate on business development opportunities in the government sector.

BCT Partners and Plexus will collaborate in bringing Plexus’ leading performance management software, Visual Performance Suite (VPS), to state and local government agencies.  VPS bridges the gaps between strategic planning, activity-based budgeting, and strategy execution. It has helped federal agencies meet the requirements of the U.S. President’s Management Agenda (PMA), the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and the Clinger-Cohen Act. Plexus has a successful track record implementing VPS at the Department of the Army, National Institutes of Health, the Department of Education, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

“We’re very excited about our relationship with BCT Partners,” said Michael Reingruber, Plexus’ Information Sciences Division Manager. “Its rare that you find a small business with exceptional technology skills and values that match your own closely held ideas about being socially responsible. Together we can leverage our diverse client bases and our own unique technology offerings.”

”BCT Partners and Plexus Scientific is a winning partnership,” said Dr. Randal Pinkett, BCT Partners’ Chairman and CEO. “I’m excited about the synergy that has already been created between our companies and believe that by combining our subject matter expertise with Visual Performance Suite’s amazing capabilities, we will be able to serve even more government agencies and assist them with realizing their strategic vision.”

With headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Plexus offers engineers, scientists, technologists, and management consultants, whose combined efforts deliver outcomes that advance federal business processes.  Plexus provides support to both federal managers responsible for execution as well as business impactors responsible for program design and oversight.

BCT Partners is a management, technology, and policy consulting firm that aligns organizational strategies and emerging technologies with cutting-edge research and analysis.  Based in Newark, New Jersey, BCT Partners is a minority-owned, 8(a) company committed to client success and delivering customized solutions for government agencies, corporations, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and foundations.  BCT Partners works to improve organizational effectiveness and support strategies for change. For more information the BCT/Plexus partnership, feel free to visit BCT Partners’ Web site at www.bctpartners.com or Plexus’s Web site at www.plexsci.com.

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