Affinity Systems Limited Selected by the Ontario Ministry of Government Services as I&IT Solutions Vendor of Record (OSS_00195390)

Affinity Systems Limited (www.affsys.com) has been selected by the Ontario Government to be one of only a few vendors to supply project based IT solutions and services to all Ontario Government Ministries and Agencies.

Mississauga (I-Newswire) December 12, 2012 - Affinity Systems Limited, an award-winning systems integrator with over twenty years of experience delivering innovative technology solutions for business and government is pleased to have been selected by the Province of Ontario to be a Vendor of Record (VOR) for Information Technology Solutions Consulting Services. To be named as one of only a handful of companies selected, Affinity was required to pass a rigorous pre-qualification process to ensure that it could meet or exceed the demands of the province. Affinity is now pre-qualified to supply project-based IT solutions and services to all Ontario Government Ministries and Agencies for a period of three years.

“We have an enviable track record delivering complex solutions across a variety of industries and technologies,” said Hugh Hyndman, Director of Affinity Systems. “Our bench of seasoned professionals is widely recognized for producing solutions integrating legacy and emerging technologies to drive business process enablement, workflow and business intelligence. We believe we bring tremendous value to the province and ultimately the tax payers of Ontario.”


Affinity is approved to provide the full life-cycle of services required for complex, highly technical projects. These services include:


• Business Analysis and Planning
• Systems Architecture
• Solutions Development including best practice such as Solutions Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rapid/Joint Application Development (RAD/JAD)
• Multi-Platform including .Net Framework, Java platform, Mainframe, AS/400, Solaris / UNIX, X86, Windows Server, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and other
• Testing and Quality Insurance
• Deployment and operations including training
• Security and information management


With this selection, Affinity joins a small and elite group of systems integrators who have successfully delivered projects in excess of five million dollars. In addition to public sector, Affinity has been recognized for value-based solutions that cross into other verticals such as insurance and healthcare. In particular, they were recently recognized by both Microsoft at the worldwide level and Computer Dealer News at the country level for their outstanding performance in the past twelve months.