From the start, our mission at Directlink was to design an alternative outsourcing strategy for our customers that leverages the best that America has to offer. The strategy named "AmeriSource" provides our customers a cost effective, resource rich, and flexible On-Shore outsourcing model. Directlink is headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania which is located within a few hours of the United State's major urban centers.

At Directlink our "AmeriSource" outsourcing model provides our customers with business and technical capabilities "far beyond" those provided by traditional IT services organizations. These capabilities allow our customers to view outsourcing not only as a way to save budget dollars but to look strategically at their organization from a "Data Center", "Networking" and finally from an "Application" point of view.

• Leverages Directlink's Reading, Pennsylvania Technology Center supported by a technically rich and extensive data center operation running 7x24x365
• Provides connectivity through a major fiber optic network "hub" at our Technology Center servicing 23 major cities and seven states throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions of the United States, including New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and others.
• Geographically contains the largest concentration of skilled Business and IT professionals in the United States within a 100 mile radius of our Technology Center
• Educationally contains an extensive system of higher educational Universities, Colleges (four and two year) as well as technical trade schools that are part of Directlink's Feeder Program
• Provides a lower cost of real-estate (facilities cost) that is significantly less than that of urban areas
• Provides a quality of life that is indicative of "rural" parts of the United States but yet is within a relatively short drive to many of our major metropolitan areas.

GSA Information

Electronic and information technology (EIT) vendors play a critical role in the implementation of Section 508. Using the purchasing power of the Federal government as an incentive, it is the EIT vendors that incorporate accessibility features in their product and service offerings that will achieve the competitive advantage in this emerging market place. The Center for Information Technology Accommodation (CITA) assists the vendor community through two programs: the Accessibility Forums and the Buy Accessible template.

The Accessibility Forum is an ongoing collaboration among stakeholders affected by Section 508 including users, industry, government, and other communities in order to benefit employees and members of the public with disabilities. The Forum will identify, prioritize, and conduct projects that assist government in making informed decisions about Section 508 related procurements and allow government, industry and users to communicate and highlight areas where further effort is needed.

The second initiative that CITA sponsors is Buy Accessible, a database offering a common format for vendors to describe the accessibility features of their products. Federal procurement and requiring officials use Buy Accessible to conduct market research and support their requirements development and procurement selection processes. Vendors are encouraged to evaluate their products for accessibility and provide a self-representation of the extent to which their products address the Accessibility Standards per section 508. Self-representations provided via the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template should be registered with Buy Accessible, the online source for government market research on accessible products. Buy Accessible is an excellent resource for getting your accessibility information to government requiring officials and procurement officials.