?NTRASOFT International, a member of the INTRACOM Group, was recently awarded the new CORDIS project, one of the key projects in the area of electronic information dissemination, budgeted at 28 million euros, following an international tender by the European Commission, DG Enterprise. The contract has a two-year duration with a renewal possibility for two more years.

CORDIS constitutes the basic means for information provisioning and one of the most popular portals (www.cordis.lu) among the European citizens and companies on issues of research, technological development and innovation. It enables access to a wide range of information with a reliable and comprehensive coverage in the five EU official languages (English, German, French, Spanish and Italian) receiving approximately one million visits per day.

The information is available through a collection of databases, an extensive document library, and by hosting targeted EU R&D projects and services (such as FP6, ERA, EPSS, Presidency services, Gate2Growth, IRC, Trend Chart, etc) all easily accessible via the CORDIS web home page.

INTRACOM Group has been involved with the development of CORDIS since the early days of the portal?s existence by substantially contributing to its establishment and diffusion as an electronic means of information dissemination. Its involvement in the development of the main information service system dates back in 1993 while, since 1998, it has been responsible for the entirety of the portal?s operations (management, software development, environment operation, etc).

Within the framework of new CORDIS, ?NTRASOFT International - a prime contractor in Lots 1 and 3 and a subcontractor to the Belgian company Trasys in Lot 2 - undertakes the provision of services in the areas of: content collection-production and management, translations, marketing & customer relations and development of infrastructure & information dissemination systems. These three lots (out of five awarded) represent the key-areas contributing to the overall successful and effective operation of CORDIS and their award to INTRASOFT International and its partners reflects the company?s contribution in CORDIS? successful course.

The award of this contract further consolidates INTRASOFT International?s position as one of the main providers of managed services in the field of information dissemination and e-government.