(Fairfax, VA – January 6, 2009) C2Logix announced today that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has extended for an additional year its contract with the firm to provide route optimization technology for nationwide emergency response planning.

As part of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Program, the CDC has been offering the CDC Stockpile Routing Web Portal (Portal), developed by C2Logix in November 2007, to federal, state and local community planners in order to assist with the planning for rapid and efficient transport and distribution of critical medicine and supplies in the event of an emergency, such as a terrorist attack. The Portal is a central route simulation and optimization decision-making tool with nearly 400 users, featuring a web-based version of the powerful, yet easy-to-use TourSolver route optimization software.

In the CDC’s 2008 Contractor Performance Report reviewing C2Logix work in the first year of the contract, C2Logix received the highest rating for each performance category, which includes quality of product or service; value; timeliness of performance; and business relations. The report also states that “the state and local stakeholders for CDC have found this service to be highly useful”; “the vendor has always been highly responsive to any requests, and has taken the initiative on issues that were not considered by the CDC”; and “…also provided assistance above and beyond the scope of the contract in support of the response efforts to the hurricane activity in Louisiana.”

As part of the contract extension for 2009, C2Logix will provide enhanced support, training and program advancement services to include users’ workgroups and webinars. C2Logix will also develop an advanced web-based version of TourSolver specifically customized for the needs of the SNS and emergency response routing. The ultimate objective will be to enhance and simplify security and access to the application, reduce users’ learning curve, and to streamline the routing process to be specific to SNS routing.

C2Logix’s implementation of TourSolver meets the unique needs of emergency response, i.e., the need to distribute the materials as fast as possible versus as cheaply as possible, as done by traditional route optimization applications. The customized tool enables planners to quickly generate optimized routes to distribute supplies from central storage facilities to multiple local points of distribution in communities. In addition to allowing the generation of optimized routes based on basic information about the fleet and delivery points, TourSolver provides the ability to simulate multiple scenarios and allow planners to quickly see the impact on the overall distribution operation.

The CDC, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which Congress charged with establishing the SNS in 1999. The SNS is a national repository of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical materials. It was built to respond to large-scale public health emergencies or acts of terrorism. For more information about the CDC and the SNS, visit www.cdc.gov and www.bt.cdc.gov/stockpile/

C2Logix, headquartered in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., was founded in 2000 and is a pioneering company in the use of command and control logistics technologies. The company provides logistics software and solutions to enable managers to manage, staff to achieve and organizations to thrive. C2Logix’s fleet routing and mapping software and performance tracking technologies make field service, delivery and dispatch operations efficient and effective. C2Logix’s products include route optimization solutions (FleetRoute and TourSolver), in-vehicle data solutions (GPS/AVL, RFID, mobile information systems integrated with route optimization software) and route performance and business intelligence software. C2Logix also provides related consulting services and can act as a Service Bureau, performing route optimization, territory planning, and cost analysis using the technologies. For more information on the firm and its products and services, visit www.c2logix.com or call 1-866-927-8324.