Should-Cost, Will-Cost Experts Munro & Associates, Inc. Awarded GSA Schedule

TROY, Mich., June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Munro & Associates, Inc., specialists in should-cost analysis and total cost reduction, today announced the award of its GSA Schedule for Professional Engineering Services from the General Services Administration (GSA). The schedule, contract number GS-10F-0276X, allows Munro & Associates to provide products and services to government agencies as an approved, preferred vendor, and expedites the process of obtaining government contracts.

"Being awarded this GSA contract is an important development in Munro & Associates' history, and marks our expansion into a new and significant market for us," said Munro & Associates' VP Business Development, Joe Feord. "We look forward to providing Government agencies with the cost-effective solutions that have made us so valued by our many commercial clients."

Munro provides detailed cost analyses to provide clear direction upstream to make informed decisions that result in on-cost, on-time, capable, reliable products. With a sole focus for 23 years on exposing and quantifying drivers of cost, Munro provides robust methods for efficiently and accurately representing all the steps, parts, tools, operations, personnel, and, more importantly, the potentials for failure and rework. This forecasts the should-cost and will-cost for any product, service or operation, and pinpoints the root drivers so that remedies can be implemented to avoid future pain.

"It has been a benefit to be only focused in this area," said Joe Feord. "We have learned a tremendous amount about what works and what doesn't. Now we are pleased to be positioned to help the DOD get in front of the future costs so we can make them better."

About Munro and Associates, Inc.

Munro and Associates, Inc., founded in 1988, is headquartered in Troy, Michigan and has offices in Europe, Canada and Asia. Munro is a world-class consulting engineering firm that specializes in upfront, predictive methods and should-cost analysis. Their tools and services expose drivers of potential downstream problems, provide direction for designing out high-cost drivers, generate standardized metrics for early trade-off analyses, and manage the details of producibility through the development lifecycle. Their experience spans thousands of examples and accounts for billions of dollars saved through more efficient product designs, higher quality and smoother production.  

Munro's diverse customer list includes TACOM LCMC, Tata Motors, Chrysler, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Oldenburg Group, General Dynamics, Rubbermaid, Cardinal Health, Boeing, Raytheon, ATK, Nikon, Lockheed Martin, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, and many more.

For more information, visit http://www.leandesign.com

Contact: Joe Feord, 248-362-5110 ext 206, [email protected]

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