The History of Dowless & Associates, Inc.
What is it that sustains a business for ten years? It’s people. Finding the right people, and providing the right opportunities make us all entrepreneurs in our own way, and that spirit fuels the company to succeed and to thrive. A little history of how we arrived at this point!
By March 1999 we had several consulting engagements providing training and curriculum development supported by 2 trainers.
June 1999 - we were awarded our first government subcontract for support & integration on a new encryption product– PGP. We grew to 8 full time employees by the end of our first year.
May 2001 -we won our first Government Prime Contract, providing integration and O&M support to the PGP project.
By April of 2003, we had grown to eleven employees supporting one Prime Contract, 4 long term subcontracts, and several short term consulting engagements.
By March 2004 we had fourteen employees, and began a new group who specialized in reselling security software products. This Value Added Reseller (VAR) program helped us to become the “go to company” for PGP product and services.
By March 2005 we had twenty one employees, and won the re-competed work in an open competition for our existing contract, and now had fourteen subcontracts and a growing number of customers from our PGP VAR program.
September of 2006, we bid and won our second Prime Contract in open competition, providing O&M support to a government customer. We grew by eight employees that year to bring our numbers to twenty two. (Our employee retention rate was at 97%)
By April of 2007 our numbers had increased to thirty three with 2 Prime Contracts and 7 long term subcontracts and the PGP VAR program had its best year ever.
March 2009 – Dowless & Associates celebrates 10 years of supporting our customers by providing innovative Information Technology solutions and services with a commitment to excellence.
We're looking forward to the next 10 Years!
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