Includes ArcGIS for Server, Website Application Vulnerability Scanning, SAAS, and Other Specialized Hosting Services
Roanoke VA March 1, 2016— SiteVision’s Hosting Services and Software as a Service contract has been renewed by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) for an additional year. The contact is part of Virginia’s electronic government services program (eGov) and includes all state agencies and local government entities. The firm is a certified SWaM Micro-business by the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity.
WAVS
SiteVision is authorized to provide Web Application Vulnerability Scanning (WAVS) and offers a cost-effective solution to discover, analyze and provide reporting on website application vulnerability – a vital technology in response to severe and widespread intrusion threats. Remediation solutions are also available.
GIS Hosting
The firm has long participated in GIS application development and hosting. This contract should be of particular interest to Virginia’s mapping and GIS community. With a minimal cost of entry, organizations may take full advantage of distributed GIS and Internet map server technology.
Conventional And Customized Solutions Including Software As A Service
In addition to conventional hosting technologies; the firm offers SAAS, content delivery networking (CDN); media delivery and streaming services; failover, redundancy and disaster recovery services; cloud storage solutions; and a variety of custom hosting options.
“We are very pleased to continue as a provider of advanced hosting and related technologies,” said Patrick Maddox, CEO of SiteVision, Inc. “Our hosting and technical teams are always ready to help state and local bodies achieve a smooth transition of existing services, or to help with any new services that might be required.”
VITA Objectives
The stated objectives of the VITA contracts are to modernize the Commonwealth’s procurements and provide enhanced value to the state, greater transparency, broader participation by multiple suppliers, and cost-effective access to best-of-class technology services
The original contract awards followed in-depth, multi-agency evaluations of responses to VITA’s requests for proposals (RFPs) for eGov services. Awards were based on demonstrated, measurable benefit to the Commonwealth and contract users. VITA is the Commonwealth’s central information technology (IT) agency. VITA’s statewide contracts can be accessed and utilized by all public entities, including Virginia counties, cities, towns, agencies, educational institutions and public safety providers. The current renewal is effective through April 2017.
The Hosting Contract is: VA-120416-STVN – Hosting and details may be found at: http://www.vita2.virginia.gov/procurement/contractDetail.cfm?contract_id=1000732
As a provider, SiteVision has offered application design, development, and hosting solutions to federal, state, local, non-profit, and private sector clients for nearly 15 years. A dedicated hosting staff focuses purely on hosting services and solutions. The firm services hundreds of customers and thousands of domain names and e-mail accounts across all of their hosting services. All key systems (ping, power, and pipe) are redundant, and all servers and required services are actively and consistently monitored for availability.
About SiteVision: SiteVision, Inc. is an Internet application development, consulting, design and hosting firm providing solutions for a broad spectrum of markets and industries, as well as for state, federal and international entities. Expertise includes custom, dynamic back-end applications, consulting to achieve unique goals, geographic information systems (GIS), content management systems, hosting services including, map and GIS application hosting, as well as custom and dedicated hosting solutions.
SiteVision, Inc. participates in, or is available through, the following state and federal contracting vehicles, and is a SOC 1 SSAE 16 Type II compliant firm:
The firm’s home office is in Roanoke, VA, with sales offices in Charlottesville, VA and Miami, FL.
SiteVision and city officials worked closely together to integrate the existing system to the now enhanced version. Among improvements, existing web application servers migrated to the more feature-rich ESRI ArcGIS server and Adobe Flex environments. New features include floating, pull-down menus to permit rapid switching between various base maps. The redesigned site also includes Google Map and Google Street views. Comprehensive mapping and real estate information includes property overview, images, assessments, sales history, flooding information, community attributes and incentives. Users may also print a full property report including images. 
The Community and Incentive Website Portals, a useful feature previously developed in cooperation with SiteVision, has been incorporated into the enriched site. Community information provides users with a summary of specific neighborhood information including school zones, voter precincts, trash collection, parks and recreation, neighborhoods and libraries. The incentive portal provides a summary of city, state and federal incentive programs available to a specific parcel.
