Sudhakar Kesavan
Management
Thank you, Doug and good evening everyone. This was another quarter of strong core business revenue growth, solid profitability and our highest level of sales in any quarter this year. Core business revenues were up 57%, which brings our annualized third quarter run rate, excluding the Road Home contract to $465 million. The organic growth rate for the quarter was 20.5%. On a core business basis, the revenue breakdown was similar to recent quarters with energy, environment and climate change accounting for 57%; health human services and social programs representing 29%, and homeland security and defense representing 14% of our revenue. In our core business, work for government clients accounted for 72% of third quarter revenues, domestic commercial clients represented about 21% and international business was the remaining 7%. We achieved double-digit growth across all of our markets. In addition, the market trends are positive, there is greater likelihood of government regulation, and the role of government is likely to expand, creating strong demand for ICF services among both our government and commercial clients. Importantly, we are maintaining our profitability levels as the Road Home contract winds down by focusing our efforts in four areas. (1) gaining cost efficiencies; (2) achieving significant organic growth and winning large contracts; (3) effectively managing our contract mix and (4) increasing the percentage of higher margin work in our portfolio. Let me describe each of these. On cost efficiencies, we are increasing the productivity of our professional staff and we are carefully monitoring costs and taking advantage of synergies with recent acquisitions. On growth, in addition to expanding our advisory work based up on our domain expertise, we are gaining traction and leveraging our advisory work to win larger implementation contracts. On contract mix, we have been steadily shifting towards higher margin, time and materials and fixed price contracts, which accounted for 81% of our core business revenues in this year’s third quarter. This represents significant progress from 76% for all of 2007 and 69% for 2006. On higher margin work, our commercial international business, which has higher margins, is increasing as a percentage of revenues. Turning to our outlook, we are pleased with trends in our new business pipeline, which is at $1.5 billion today, even after subtracting the significant contract wins this past quarter. Core business backlog, which excludes the Road Home contract, was at a record $735 million at the end of the third quarter, up 42% from last year’s third quarter and an 18% sequential increase over this year’s second quarter. With that, I would like to turn the call over to John Wasson who will give you more details on contracts and business trends; John.