SPAN Systems Proposal for HazGuideTM Data





 Exhibit 10.13 
  

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 Table of Contents 
  

			
	 1.      EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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	 2.      SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
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	 3.      ASSUMPTIONS
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	 4.      APPROACH TO THE PROJECT
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	 4.1    PROJECT INITIATION
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	 4.2    OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENT SETUP
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	 4.3    DATA VALIDATION
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	 4.4    BUG REPORTING
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	 4.5    DELIVERABLES
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	 5.      EFFORT & SCHEDULE
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	 6.      COST AND PAYMENT TERMS
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 SPAN Systems Corporation    Administrative Office: 230 Sherman Avenue Suite 9, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 
  

			
	Phone:       908-665-9100 	  	Fax: 908-665-9002
	Toll Free: USA: 888-SPAN-SYS (772-6797) 	  	India: 800-209-3243 x9397
	Web Site:  http://www.spansystems.com 	  	E-Mail: span@spansystems.com

  
 Offices in New Jersey, Connecticut,
Louisiana, Virginia, California, Europe and India 
  










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 1. Executive Summary 
  

FiRST, a Louisiana Limited Liability Company, is privately held and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 
  
 During research and development, FiRST realized it had discovered three distinct breakthrough
products areas. FiRST believes these truly unique and patent-pending products bring powerful technology solutions to the real-world problems facing our nations emergency/first responder & FEMA teams, industrial hygienists and the EPA, and
university and other major chemical research centers. The products are: 
  

	 	•	 	HazGuideTM 

  

	 	•	 	RespondWareTM 

  

	 	•	 	SpectraWareTM 

  
 SPAN Systems is one of less than 100 Software Engineering Institute (SEI) listed companies
worldwide with high maturity levels, in which SPAN Systems has been assessed SEI CMM Level 4 and is one of even fewer companies worldwide assessed CMM Level 4 and also certified ISO 9001:2000, two marks of a company that
can provide impressive ROI and IRR on software projects. As a member of IBM’s PartnerWorld for Developers and certified by the Government of India’s Software Technology Parks, SPAN Systems is also currently ranked in the
Top 100 Indian software services company by a recent, popular Indian IT publication. Profitable from inception in 1993, SPAN Systems is an established, U.S. incorporated, minority-owned company with global offices in the
U.S., Europe and India. 
  
 SPAN proposes to undertake the FiRST HazGuide Data
Verification and Quality Assurance Project at its offshore development center in India. 
  
 2. Scope of the project 
  
 The
scope of the project consist of the following: 
  

	 	•	 	Manually compare the displayed ERG 2004 Guide and FiRST HazGuide product displayed databases for any and all errors and anomalies. SPAN will complete a verification of the sample
size 13 documents out of 78 (two page) documents and create a report for each subset, as per the procedures defined by FiRST. 

  



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 3. Assumptions 
  
 Based on the Statistical data provided, the following assumptions has been made for estimation for the project: 
  

	 	•	 	It would require multiple iterations of Data Validation for each subset to comply with the Acceptable Quality Standards. 

  

	 	•	 	It is assumed that there will be an average of 3 iterations of re-verification per subset before it complies with Acceptable Quality Standards. 

  

	 	•	 	FiRST’s database software team will be responsible for correcting errors in the programming once a complete subset sample has completed verification. First will correct and
rebuild the database subset and resend to Span to re-verify. 

  
 4. Approach to the project 
  
 SPAN proposes to undertake the
project at its offshore office in India. The steps involved in accomplishing this are as follows: 
  
 4.1 Project Initiation 
  
 SPAN
will identify a Project Coordinator to coordinate with the identified FiRST representative to have detailed discussions and understand the detailed project requirements, understand preferences and priorities, get approval on the timelines, define
the way SPAN would communicate with FiRST on a regular basis. 
  
 The offshore
team will be identified at the Project Initiation stage itself. The team members will study the relevant documentation to understand the tasks involved. 
  
 4.2 Offshore Environment Setup 
  
 SPAN currently proposes to have a team of 3 people including the Project Co-ordinator to work on this project. 
  



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 For the current project SPAN has already set up the offshore environment and is geared to undertake the project
immediately. 
  
 4.3 Data Validation 
  
 The offshore team will be executing Data Validation work on an ongoing basis. The Project
Co-ordinator will handle all project work for the offshore team. 
  
 SPAN’s
team will manually compare the displayed original databases and FiRST HazGuide product displayed databases for any and all errors and anomalies. They will complete a verification of the entire sample size and create a report for each subset.

  
 If the data fails to meet the quality assurance outlined by FiRST, then SPAN
will forward the report as outlined to FiRST immediately. FiRST’s database software team will be responsible for correcting errors in the programming once a complete subset sample has completed verification. FiRST will correct and rebuild the
database subset and resend to SPAN for re-verification. SPAN will then re-verify the data for that subset from the beginning, with a new randomly selected sample group to be verified. These iterations of reporting errors, correcting errors and
re-verification will continue until the subset reaches the Acceptable Quality Standards according to the procedure defined by FiRST. 
  
 4.4 Bug Reporting 
  
 The identified bugs will be logged and sent to FiRST in a separate report for each subset containing a log of the procedure followed, the sample size taken, the date, the
employee who discovered the error, a full description of the error, the number of errors encountered, and where each of the errors occurred. 
  
 4.5 Deliverables 
  
 SPAN will provide deliverables in the following phases: 
  

	 	•	 	The first phase deliverable will be a separate report for each subset containing a log of the procedure followed, the sample size taken, the date, the employee who discovered the
error, a full description of the error, the number of errors encountered, and where each of the errors occurred. 

  

	 	•	 	Final delivery will be a formal report of the results and procedures and a formal letter (on SPAN’s company letterhead) verifying that the standard and verification met the
procedure and quality assurance results as outlined by FiRST. 

  



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	 	•	 	SPAN will deliver all subset reports each with a cover letter as outlined by FiRST. SPAN will write one final letter citing the subset reports as to the procedure followed, the
date, the project manager’s name and results. This letter will be signed by a senior executive at SPAN and contain this person’s name, title, physical and electronic address and telephone number. 

  
 5. Effort & Schedule 
  
 SPAN proposes to undertake the project on an ongoing “Time & Material”
basis. SPAN estimates that a team of 2 people will be required for a period of two weeks, to complete this project. This is a Ballpark only and is based on the Assumptions listed in Section 3. 
  
 6. Cost and payment terms 
  
 SPAN will charge FiRST @ $ 10 per hour for Data
Validators costing $ 1600( One thousand Six hundred). 
  
 Any programming work will be charged at $ 16 per hour. 
  
 SPAN will invoice FiRST at the beginning of each week based on the effort in the Timesheets and send it to: 
  
 Thomas Anderson  
 Senior
Vice-President, Business Development & Administration 
 FiRST Responder Systems & Technology, LLC 
 LBTC D - 124, S. Stadium Drive 
 Baton
Rouge, LA 70803-6100 
 (225) 578-7916 office 
 (225) 578-7915 fax 
  
 FiRST will pay immediately on receipt of the Invoice by Check and send it to: 
  
 Mr. Mysore S. Srinath, 
 General Manager Administration 
 SPAN Systems Corp. 
 230, Sherman Avenue, Suite 9, 
 Berkeley Heights 
 NJ 07922 
  



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 This Software development proposal is issued pursuant to the Software Development Agreement signed on Dec 9th, 2004.
All the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement are incorporated herein and made a part hereof as if they were expressly set forth in this Project Schedule. By the execution and delivery of this proposal, the parties hereby reaffirm all of
the terms, conditions and representation of the Agreement except as modified herein: 
  
 ACCEPTED BY: 
  

									
	 SPAN SYSTEMS CORP.
	 	 	 	 FiRST Responder Systems & Technology, LLC

					
	 By
	 	 /s/ Prakash Grama
	 	 	 	 By
	 	 /s/ Jay Roccaforte

					
	 Name
	 	 Prakash Grama
	 	 	 	 Name
	 	 Jay Roccaforte

					
	 Title
	 	 CEO
	 	 	 	 Title
	 	 President/CEO

					
	 Date
	 	 June 24, 2005
	 	 	 	 Date
	 	 May 26, 2005 


  



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