GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Endo | December 24, 2021
Endo International plc today announced that it and its wholly-owned subsidiaries Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., Endo Health Solutions Inc., Par Pharmaceutical, Inc., and Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. have entered into a statewide settlement agreement intended to resolve all government-related opioid claims in Texas.
The settlement, which is subject to certain conditions and contingencies, provides a framework through which Endo and its subsidiaries can fully and finally resolve the opioid-related claims of Texas and its subdivisions in exchange for a total payment of $63 million. The settlement includes no admission of wrongdoing, fault or liability of any kind by Endo or its subsidiaries, and the settlement value should not be extrapolated to any other opioid-related cases or claims.
The Texas settlement resolves, among other things, claims against Endo's subsidiaries in two cases set for trial in Texas state court in 2022: County of Dallas v. Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al., Texas MDL Pretrial Cause No. 2018-77098, and County of Bexar v. Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al., Texas MDL Pretrial Cause No. 2018-77066. The plaintiffs in those cases agreed to sever Endo's subsidiaries from these upcoming trials pending implementation of the settlement.
The Company is continuing to litigate opioid claims not covered by its settlements and to pursue settlements that it believes are in its best interests while remaining focused on its primary goal of achieving a global settlement. At the same time, Endo is exploring other strategic alternatives, and may seek to implement one or more of those alternatives in the event it is unable to achieve a global settlement. Endo cannot speculate on the likelihood, nature or timing of any outcome.
About Endo International plc
Endo is a specialty pharmaceutical company committed to helping everyone we serve live their best life through the delivery of quality, life-enhancing therapies. Our decades of proven success come from a global team of passionate employees collaborating to bring the best treatments forward. Together, we boldly transform insights into treatments benefiting those who need them, when they need them.
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OneWeb | May 11, 2021
OneWeb, the worldwide interchanges network fueled by Space, declared today it has gone into an authoritative consent to secure Texas-based TrustComm Inc., which will empower OneWeb to offer its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) organization and availability administrations to U.S. government customers and TrustComm clients.
Based at the exceptionally secure Ellington Joint Base in Houston, Texas, TrustComm was set up in 1999 as a supplier of oversaw satellite correspondences and expert administrations to business associations and governments. TrustComm offers administrations going from broadband Internet access, VoIP and voice, video conferencing, and information interchanges for business coherence to crisis reaction, strategic field arrangement, and brief use.
"OneWeb's procurement of TrustComm supports our procedure to quickly scale satellite interchanges to the U.S. DoD."
"OneWeb's securing of TrustComm supports our procedure to quickly scale satellite correspondence administration to the U.S. Branch of Defense and other government offices as they hope to incorporate high throughput, low dormancy answers for fulfilling new availability needs," said OneWeb's Head of Government Services Dylan Browne. "We are eager to have TrustComm join our group and influence their solid standing giving the distant correspondences our clients need, especially in Alaska and the Arctic."
Under the conditions of the arrangement, a recently gained intermediary auxiliary of OneWeb will be driven by TrustComm CEO Bob Roe and spotlight on presenting OneWeb's undertaking grade network administrations to clients. Terms of the exchange are classified, and it is required to shut in 2021, subject to standard shutting conditions including administrative endorsements.
"The TrustComm group is excited to join OneWeb at the beginning of this new time of Satcom administrations. TrustComm's legacy and client-centered help groups will empower us to grow the arrangement of administrations we offer and permit us to seek after new freedoms. This is an energizing turn of events and we anticipate taking our administration business higher than ever in the coming year," said Roe.
OneWeb will offer DoD and other government customers another set-up of administrations with network accelerates to 195 Mbps, lower inactivity, more modest and more conservative multi-circle client terminals, and inherent organization the board instruments giving generous financial investment funds over customary GEO deals models.
The securing follows the fruitful exhibition of OneWeb's turnkey satellite-based correspondences framework to the DoD in March of 2021, with information rates up to 500Mbps at dormancy levels as low as 32ms. The show additionally represented the consistent handover of the network between numerous LEO satellites as they passed overhead.
Intended to furnish associations and governments with really worldwide and tough availability benefits, OneWeb's answer will include an organization of 648 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, worldwide entryways, and air, sea, and land clients terminals. In late 2021, OneWeb will start offering business types of assistance across the Arctic and growing to worldwide inclusion in 2022.
About OneWeb
OneWeb is a worldwide correspondence network controlled from space, settled in London, empowering availability for governments, organizations, and networks. It is executing a group of stars of Low Earth Orbit satellites with an organization of worldwide entryway stations and a scope of client terminals to give a moderate, quick, high-data transmission and low-inertness correspondences administration, associated with the IoT future and a pathway to 5G for everybody, all over the place.
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Accela | September 28, 2021
Accela®, the leading provider of cloud-based solutions for state and local government, and Avolve Software, today announced a new reseller partnership, building on their foundations of expertise in digitally transforming business processes for state and local government. Accela and Avolve have strengthened their partnership over the past decade, and bring together two industry-leading technologies into a robust solution for permitting and electronic plan review, all delivered on Microsoft Azure.
Together through this partnership, Avolve and Accela can provide an unparalleled experience for applicants and plan reviewers at building agencies. ProjectDox, Avolve's electronic plan review solution, also provides proven business processes for public works, planning, engineering, fire, and any agency with a plan review requirement. As a result of Avolve and Accela's partnership, jurisdictions can now eliminate paper and PDF/email plan submissions, as well as conduct concurrent online plan reviews - all while communicating project status back into Accela's Civic Application for Building. With Avolve and Accela, agencies can achieve improved collaboration, transparency and process insight, resulting in lower costs, faster review cycles and a streamlined experience for both residents and agency staff.
"Avolve is excited to formalize our relationship after working with Accela for more than a decade, with dozens of mutual customers throughout North America. As part of our applicant experience focus in our new ProjectDox 9.2, we created a new Accela Citizen Access integration that provides a seamless applicant experience with self-serve status insight on their plan review as it is progressing. Both organizations have strategically aligned with Microsoft to deploy our mutual customers on the Azure cloud, which additionally improves the performance, security and scalability of the integrated solutions."
Avolve CEO Gary Heath
Salt Lake City, Utah has relied on the Avolve+Accela solution for more than a decade, and ePlan reduced plan approval times for the city by as much as 50%, saving days and even weeks. After implementing Avolve+Accela, Salt Lake City also began tracking environmental conservation savings, and the estimated reductions are significant: 360,000 fewer miles driven by applicants; 512,000 fewer pounds of printed paper; 2,300 fewer pounds of hydrocarbons released into the atmosphere. Additionally, in light of current health and safety challenges, both staff and citizens are able to continue operations in a safe, online environment.
"We are thrilled to grow our partnership with Avolve and expand Accela's network of trusted technology alliances that help government agencies streamline critical plan review processes on Microsoft Azure. Technology plays a critical role in helping governments serve their constituents and simplify permitting and plan reviews. Accela is committed to aligning with partners, like Avolve, to deliver the best cloud-based solutions to governments and help them provide essential community services."
Tom Nieto, chief operating officer at Accela
The value of Avolve and Accela's complementary technologies is exponentially enhanced when deployed on Microsoft Azure. This combined rich solution assures jurisdictions that their information is secure, removes onerous IT requirements, and eliminates the headaches of upgrading to future versions.
By relying on Accela, Avolve, and Microsoft, agencies can deliver a seamless citizen and staff experience, improved review process visibility, up to a 60% increase in plan review efficiencies, and a thorough security and audit trail. The new reseller partnership makes it easier than ever for jurisdictions to acquire the complete permitting and plan review solution on Microsoft's cloud environment in a single procurement.
Accela delivers innovative, market-leading SaaS solutions that help governments worldwide to build thriving communities, grow businesses, and protect citizens' services. With Accela, state and local governments can unlock the power of the cloud and offer more modern services, simplify critical workflows, optimize costs and accelerate digitization. In total, Accela delivers leading cloud-based solutions to 80% of the top 100 U.S. cities and strengthens communities for more than 275 million citizens globally.
About Avolve Software
Avolve's suite of ePlan Life Cycle products brings efficiency and ease to submitting, reviewing, approving, storing and accessing building plans and data within your jurisdiction. Over 150+ cities and counties in the US and Canada use ProjectDox ePlan Review and one in every five citizens live in jurisdictions served by ProjectDox. Avolve has over 1000 deployed plan review processes, with over 2 million plan reviews performed on more than 100 million plan set files. Leading the industry for 15 years, our depth of ePlan process knowledge and services experience is unrivaled.
About Accela
Accela provides market-leading cloud solutions that empower the most innovative state and local governments around the world to build thriving communities, grow businesses, and protect citizens. More than 275 million citizens globally benefit from Accela's solutions, which are powered by Azure, for permitting, licensing, code enforcement, and service request management. Accela's fast-to-implement Civic Applications, built on its robust and extensible Civic Platform, help agencies address specific needs today, while ensuring they are prepared for any emerging or complex challenges in the future. The company was recently recognized as a 2021 Microsoft US Partner Award winner for its innovative SaaS solutions to help governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was named as one of the Largest East Bay Tech Employers by San Francisco Business Times. Accela is headquartered in San Ramon, California, with additional offices around the world.
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