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Comforce Corp. - IT
Staffing-
Category Directory
877-266-3672 (toll free)
415
Crossways Park Drive
Woodbury, NY 11797
www.comforce.com
Sales
$382
million
Business Description
COMFORCE Corporation (“COMFORCE”) is a leading provider of specialty
staffing, consulting and outsourcing services primarily to Fortune 500
companies for their healthcare support, technical and engineering services,
information technology, telecommunications and other staffing services.
COMFORCE Operating, Inc. (“COI”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of COMFORCE, was
formed for the purpose of facilitating certain of the Company’s financing
transactions in November 1997. Unless the context otherwise requires, the
term the “Company” refers to COMFORCE, COI and all of their direct and
indirect subsidiaries, all of which are wholly-owned.
Through a national network of 40 offices (31 company-owned and 9 licensed),
the Company recruits and places highly skilled contingent personnel and
provides financial and outsourcing services for a broad customer base. The
Company’s labor force consists primarily of computer programmers, systems
consultants, telecommunication engineers, analysts, engineers, technicians,
scientists, researchers, healthcare professionals and skilled office support
personnel.
The Company provides Human Capital Management services through its PrO
Unlimited subsidiary. PrO Unlimited has become a market leader in providing
end-to-end web-enabled solutions for the effective procurement, tracking and
engagement of contingent or non-employee labor. PrO Unlimited utilizes a
combination of proprietary web-based software and intellectual capital to
manage all aspects of this rapidly growing segment of the workforce. While
the Company focuses on selling its services primarily to Fortune 500
companies, PrO Unlimited’s contingent workforce management tools are
suitable for a cross-section of large employers throughout the United States
and in the Canadian and European offices maintained by U.S. employers. The
contingent labor force consists of independent contractors, temporary
workers, consultants, returning retirees and freelancers. A growing number
of corporations are utilizing contingent labor solutions to enable them to
manage their cost structures more effectively and to better position them to
weather business strategy transition and maintain streamlined “just-in-time”
labor pools. PrO Unlimited has been a pioneer in assisting companies with
government regulatory compliance regarding contingent personnel,
particularly the management, tax, benefit and liability issues associated
with the contingent workforce.
PrO Unlimited’s program is designed to replace vendor-on-premise programs
that large companies have been using in recent years to manage their
contingent workforces. PrO Unlimited seeks to draw upon its own resources as
well as Internet-based information and tools, and to provide a range of
services through its web-enabled software (described below) that enable
large companies to effectively manage their contingent workforces. Rather
than competing with traditional staffing firms, PrO Unlimited acts as a
“vendor neutral” facilitator providing customized management reports and
proprietary Total Quality Management (“TQM”) programs that are designed to
generate cost savings and improve efficiencies for client companies. PrO
Unlimited’s typical client is a large company that relies upon contingent
labor to meet important elements of its staffing needs. PrO Unlimited
currently provides the following services:
• Contingent Staffing Management – provides a consolidated vendor-neutral
staffing desk solution for procuring contingent employees by utilizing many
different service providers to provide clients’ hiring managers with the
most qualified candidate in the shortest period of time at the lowest cost.
• The 1099 Management Solution – helps customers manage the tax and benefit
risks associated with the use of independent contractors to ensure
compliance with all governmental regulations.
• Consultant Consolidation Services – acts as single-source supplier by
consolidating and managing invoicing for, and negotiating and monitoring
services provided by, its customers’ multiple service providers, including
small consulting firms and true independent contractors.
• Professional Payrolling Services – provides automated payroll services and
worker benefits as a third party processor.
• Workforce Alliance Network Direct (“WAND”) – PrO Unlimited’s exclusive
web-enabled WAND system provides an end-to-end solution for the engagement,
management and tracking of the contingent workforce. This allows hiring
managers and staffing vendors to communicate 24 hours a day to place job
orders, check the status of job orders, submit resumes, review resumes,
schedule interviews, select candidates and create custom reports on staffing
activity. In addition, workers can utilize WAND’s e-timecarding capabilities
to submit time and expense reports online. WAND also provides extensive
reporting, consolidated billing, security check and screening services.
Staff
Augmentation Segment
Healthcare Support Services and RightSourcing
The Company has identified the healthcare support services market as a
source of significant growth potential. In this sector, the Company provides
clinical skills including nurses and other allied health professionals. In
addition, the Company also provides specialty medical office support
personnel including credentialed coders for medical reimbursements and other
personnel in support of insurance claims processing, billing, medical
recordkeeping and utilization review/case management professionals.
The Company also offers its RightSourcing Vendor Management Services Program
to medical facilities, including to five hospitals. Through this program the
Company offers cost savings and process improvement to its clients by
managing all aspects of their staffing services program including management
of all staffing vendors, order process, invoice approval and data capture
and analysis.
The Company’s customers in this area include hospitals, medical offices,
multi-physician practices, medical billing companies, insurance companies
and other middle market healthcare providers.
Information Technology
In the IT field, the Company provides highly skilled developers, technical
support personnel, systems consultants and analysts, software engineers,
technical writers and architects and project managers for a wide range of
technical assignments, including client server, mainframe, desktop and help
desk services, and Internet/Intranet projects. The Company hires the workers
it makes available to its customers, in most cases through its recruitment
process, and performs all of the obligations of an employer, including
processing payrolls, withholding taxes and offering benefits.
The Company’s IT customers operate in diverse industry sectors and include a
number of Fortune 100 companies.
Telecom
The Company provides professional and skilled telecom personnel to plan,
design, engineer, furnish, install and maintain wireless, wire line, PBX and
enterprise telecommunications systems (known as EF&I services). The
Company’s EF&I services include outside plant engineering and construction.
COMFORCE Telecom maintains a Tier-1 status among the various
telecommunications manufacturers and service providers and its customer base
includes two wireless companies. In 2003, COMFORCE Telecom became registered
to the TL 9000 standard. As described in “Recent Developments” in this Item
1, in March 2004, the Company sold a controlling interest in two niche
telecom subsidiaries and contracted to sell its remaining minority interest
in these companies by June 30, 2004.
The Company’s telecom customers include national and regional telecom
providers.
Technical and Engineering Services
The Company provides technical and engineering services through its
Technical Services division to a diverse client base including both
governmental and commercial accounts. It provides highly skilled technical
and professional personnel specializing in such areas as public health,
environmental safety, avionics and aerospace, national energy laboratories,
petrochemical, civil engineering, electronics, and many other fields. The
Company’s Technical Services division also provides its clients with
draft/design services in addition to skilled technicians along with quality
control and quality assurance personnel in manufacturing environments.
The Company’s technical and engineering customers include major private
sector commercial and military aerospace companies, federal research
facilities and other federal agencies.
Other Staffing
In addition to providing contract consulting and other staffing services in
the areas described above, the Company provides a broad range of staffing
services to its customers, including scientific support to research
facilities, mortgage staffing support, general clerical, data entry and
billing support, and telemarketing and call center staffing. In this
respect, the Company is opportunistic in utilizing its many branch offices,
sales networks, customer relationships, computer databases and other
resources to obtain engagements that are outside of its core businesses.
Financial Outsourcing Services Segment
The Company provides funding and back office support services to
approximately 70 independent consulting and staffing companies. The
Company’s back office services include payroll processing, billing and
funding, preparation of various management reports and analysis, payment of
all payroll-related taxes and preparation and filing of quarterly and annual
payroll tax returns for the contingent personnel employed and placed by
independently owned and operated staffing and consulting firms for which the
Company earns a fixed fee. Personnel placed by such independent staffing and
consulting firms remain employees of such firms. In providing payroll
funding services, the Company purchases the accounts receivable of
independent staffing firms and receives payments directly from the firms’
clients. The Company pursues the collection of all receivables with
independent consulting and staffing companies; however, the amount of any
accounts receivable that are not collected within a specified period after
billing is charged back by the Company to such firm.
Other IT Staffing / IT Recruiting Companies in the Business Directory:
Comforce
Hall Kinion
MPS Group
Robert Half
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