Good afternoon. Welcome to WidePoint's First Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Devon, and I'll be your operator for today's call. Joining us for today's presentation is WidePoint's President and CEO, Jin Kang; Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Jason Holloway; and President and CEO of Software Communications and WidePoint's Interim CFO, Ian Sparling. Following their remarks, we will open the call for questions from WidePoint's publishing analysts and major institutional investors. If your questions were not taken today and you would like additional information, please contact WidePoint’s Investor Relations team at wyy@gatewayir.com. Before we begin the call, I would like to provide WidePoint's Safe Harbor statement that includes cautions regarding the forward-looking statements made during today's call. The matters discussed in this conference call may include forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of WidePoint Corporation that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's Form 10-K filed with the Security and Exchange Commission. Finally, I would like to remind everyone that this call will be made available for replay via a link in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.widepoint.com. Now I would like to turn the call over to WidePoint's President and CEO, Mr. Jin Kang. Thank you, sir. You may begin.

Thank you, operator, and good afternoon to you all. Thank you for joining us today to review our financial results for the first quarter 2019. Thanks to the success of prior quarters, Q1 was a strong start to what we believe will be a solid year for our business. From a financial perspective, the quarter was highlighted by a 9% increase in revenues to $21.9 million and a 20% increase in gross profit to $4.3 million compared to the same quarter in 2018, which demonstrates the leverage we are developing in our operating model. Additionally, our adjusted EBITDA improved by approximately $900,000 to $1 million in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the same quarter in 2018, marking our seventh consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA. However, what we're most proud of this quarter is that we were GAAP net income profitable for the first time in many years. Our net income for Q1 was approximately $380,000, an improvement of more than $800,000 from a loss of $462,000 in the first quarter of last year. Since this team took charge of the business less than two years ago, one of our primary goals has been to become and to sustain GAAP profitability. Profitability has been one of our primary goals for the past two years. And until Q1 2019, it remained elusive. For those of you who are new to the story, it maybe difficult to empathize with this achievement. But for our long-term shareholders and those of us who have been invested for years and weathered the storm over the past several years, it is a significant achievement. As many of you know, we're extremely close to achieving that goal in the prior quarter. But due to a one-time out-of-period adjustment for a deferred tax liability in Q4…

Thank you, Jin. Operationally, the first quarter of 2019 was a very productive quarter for us at WidePoint. On our last call, we took a fairly deep dive into the nuances of our sales and marketing strategy and how all the contracts we won in the first quarter fit into that strategy. So today, I'll spare you some of those details. However, I do want to reiterate something Jin said earlier, which is that the primary goal for our sales team in 2019 is to more aggressively grow the topline. We are pursuing new business through both our internal channels, which we bolstered in January by adding new sales members and our partnerships with large systems integrators will continue to remain a vital component to our strategy. The partnership we announced with Leidos on the NASA Nest contract to provide Managed Mobility Services and the additional work that we are continuing to pursue with our various systems integrators should produce positive outcomes. As a reminder, these partnerships enable us to operate a leaner and more efficient salesforce as we're able to leverage the existing sales teams of the systems integrators. They also provide us with an opportunity to establish new relationships with potential customers and new markets that otherwise would be more challenging for us to penetrate on our own. I do want to be clear that while we're being more aggressive, we're acting in a very strategic and calculated manner. And we do that by going after and winning contracts that expand our managed services revenue. The task order with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection we secured in Q1 is one of the recent examples of a high-margin contract we have won. As a reminder, under this agreement, CBP increased funding by 50% for the management of up…

Thank you, Jason. It's a pleasure to have this opportunity to speak with you all today. As outlined in our press release, we started the year with improved revenues, improved gross profit margins, achieved GAAP profitability for the first time since Q3 2013 and produced positive adjusted EBITDA. Turning to our three months results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019. Our revenue increased 9% to $21.9 million from $20.1 million last year driven by 10% growth in managed services and 21% growth in carrier services. Our managed service revenues increased due to expansions with existing government and commercial customers as well as an increase in sales of accessories to government customers. Carrier services revenues increased primarily due to the implementation of the U.S. Coast Guard contract. Our gross profit increased 20% to $4.3 million from $3.6 million last year, and this is principally attributed to the expansion of our current contracts with higher margin revenue relative to our upselling and cross-selling efforts and new contract wins with higher margins. Operating expenses decreased by 5% to $3.8 million from $4 million last year, driven by savings realized from our 2017 and 2018 restructuring actions. GAAP net income was approximately $380,000 compared to a loss of approximately $460,000 last year. And this represents a year-over-year improvement of nearly $840,000. On a non-GAAP basis, adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter 2019 increased to approximately $1 million from $100,000 last year. In Q1, we implemented for the first time the new FASB accounting guidance on leases. We elected to apply the policy at the date of adoption and not to adjust comparative periods. And as a result, it was a negative impact of $42,000 in quarter one on net income and a positive effect on non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA relative to the prior…

Thank you, Ian, and thank you, Jason. As our financial results demonstrate, Q1 2019 was another successful quarter for WidePoint as we retained and expanded key customer relationships and closed and implemented new customer contracts. One of our goals I highlighted at the end of Q4's call was to receive GovCloud approval for ITMS, our Intelligent Telecommunication Management System, and to receive a FedRAMP certification thereafter. I'm very pleased to report that in Q1, we succeeded in moving our solution on to the GovCloud. This is a big milestone and a first for our industry and it places our TM2 solution that much further ahead of our competition. The GovCloud platform provides government customers and their partners the flexibility to architect secure cloud solutions that meet federal government information technology requirements. It's a key first step in the pursuit of ultimately receiving a FedRAMP certification. FedRAMP is a federal government right program that provides a standard approach to security assessments, authorizations and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP has become the new standard for government-wide cloud-based IT solutions. Receiving the certification is no easy task. There are many hoops to jump through and it could take up to two years to go through the entire accreditation process. However, we believe that WidePoint is uniquely positioned to meet the accreditation requirements and should also be able to expedite the accreditation process as our TM2 solutions are already delivered to the cloud and have received Authorization to Operate, or ATOs from various federal agencies. And we have strong subject matter expertise in federal government certification and accreditation process that will aid our efforts on this front. The FedRAMP certification process could be a long road and we may not have material update to share for some time. But we believe…

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Mike Crawford with B. Riley FBR. Please proceed with your question.

Thank you. Jin, in regards to recompetes that you see as opportunity to increase margin as well as potential threat in case you don't win the recompete, even though your customers are satisfied. So which other ones in addition to DHS, in particular, should we look out for this year?

Yes. So in terms of our recompetes, I think the DHS CWMS BPA is probably the most important project and contract for us to win. It is a material contract and it represents a significant amount of our revenues. And so this is a must win for us. Of course, when we go into any type of recompete, there are risks associated with it. However, I think we are positioned well. As you said in your question, we had very good past performance with our customers. We also have certification and accreditations that our competitors cannot say that they have. And through the years, we had various other contracts that do come up for recompete and there's always risks that some competitors may come in and lowball the RFP process. But we always encourage our customers to go the route of best value to the government and best value to the enterprise. And so a lot of times, the low cost bids do not necessarily win. So we've been continuing to push our certification and accreditation as a differentiator. There's also things like 5-way compliance, which is access to our system for Americans with Disabilities Act. We have to meet that. There's also Federal Information Systems Management Act, FISMA Moderate for protecting personally identifiable information. So I think we have of differentiator aside from all of the technical capabilities that our portal has. So I hope I answered your question?

Yes. Well, thanks. I mean I guess that leads to a further one. I don't think we've seen RFP yet. But when it comes out, will we then know whether it's going to be competed on the lowest cost technically acceptable basis or best-value basis?

Absolutely. If you are monitoring what they call the FedBizOpps or FBO.gov, you will see the RFP come out. An update on that note is that there was an RFP that was issued two weeks ago. We did provide input into the RFI. It was very – at the very high level. They talked about the Company's history, the address, points of contact. And they also ask for like a two-page summary of our capabilities. And so what we have been doing in the lead up to this RFI is to continue to talk with our current customers to let them know that some of the things that they need to ask for are – again, the certifications, the capabilities, and we've been the capabilities and we've been seeding that information. And the good news is that a lot of our customers will be sitting on the Source Selection Board, so they will be very familiar with our capabilities. But yes, the short answer is, in the RFP and usually in Section, I believe, Section M, which is as in Mike, Michael, it shows the evaluation criteria. And then there, it will define specifically whether it's going to be low cost or at low cost technically acceptable or best-value.

Right. So the RFI issued, but the RFP is not issued yet. That's maybe expected in the next few months?

Correct.

Right, okay.

Right. So the RFP has not been issued. And I figured maybe towards the end of the summer is what we're looking at.

Okay. That makes sense. Thanks. And then, I think Jason, you've done a lot of work to increase your visibility within channels, especially in the commercial side. I mean I guess additionally with system integrators on the federal side. But is there anything more to report there that we should look out for?

No, not currently, Mike. But what we have reported previously is still holding true. So the partnership agreements that we have in place do consist of Leidos as well as CDW and there are…

General Dynamics.

Yes. General Dynamics is another one. But nothing else, nothing else to report currently. I mean we're always continuing to push towards it. But again, just to be clear, that's the list right now. When we have something else to offer, we will definitely be pointing it out.

Okay. Thanks. And then last question for me just relates to managed services. Is there – what is the seasonality – seasonally is it about managed services that has those going up and down? You would think there would be more of recurring revenue that grew upon itself, but it does fluctuate in the different quarters. So what is it that drives that fluctuation?

So in terms of seasonality, there is absolute seasonality in our revenues. Usually, the Q1 is our slowest quarter. But seasonalities are caused by certain usage of these mobile devices. For example, FEMA, when it comes time for Hurricane season, their usage will go up and then they'll trail back down to the number of units. And so that there is some of that also less traveled by our customers overseas. We'll also reduce the count for the managed services. And so there's things like that, that affect our managed services revenue throughout the year. And so you'll see some fluctuation, but I think the fluctuation is minimal. But I think the seasonality for managed services fee, it does fluctuate a little bit, but not a whole lot. Ian, did you have something else you want to add to that?

Yes. I think – its Ian here, Mike. I think it's worth adding as well that there isn't undercurrent of stability in the revenues there through our SaaS revenues. So we would have contracts to a range of customers that are month-on-month stable as you would expect in a pure SaaS environment. So there is a mix in there of seasonality with underlying stable revenues.

Okay, great.

Does that answer your question, Mike?

Yes. It did. Thank you very much. And I’ll see you next week at our conference.

Thank you. Okay. It sounds great. See you then.

[Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of William Gibson with ROTH Capital Partners. Please proceed with your question.

Thank you, Jin. Regarding the current quarter, you talked about – the first quarter, more attachments for government services. What's being attached? What does that comprise of?

I am sorry, say that again. I missed that.

Well, on the current quarter or the first quarter, one of the reasons for the growth was more attachments for government.

Oh, yes. Yes, so the first quarter, we saw a few more orders for what they call technical refresh and accessories. I think that's what the term is. And there's a lot of equipment that goes with the smartphones and the mobile devices. And so every now and then, the government will go through, or not just government, our customers will go through what they call a technical refresh, where they upgrade all of their mobile devices and such. And these include things like mobile to mobile devices and various other devices. And so we're talking about smartphones. We're talking about machine-to-machine devices. Although we don't have specific application that use things like – devices like the autonomous car, for example, or baby monitors or pacemakers and such, although we don't have any specific contracts with those, those would be also included in those technical refresh sometimes. So that's what the accessories are. Did you want something to add? Do you have something to add to that Jason?

Yes. Mr. Gibson, Jason Holloway. And again, just to feed off of – to piggyback on what Jin said regarding the managing and the securing of the mobile devices, and the examples that I gave you earlier, just to reiterate that we're not engaged with any of those discussions with those examples that I provided earlier. All we're doing is just highlighting what we would like to include in our vision for the future. So right now, the Company is doing a good job of consistently hitting the singles and the doubles and a homerun would be good. But again, just to be clear that nothing is imminent, but we are continuing to pursue that and make that a part of our future.

So in terms of the accessories, yes, that's exactly – essentially what we're talking about our – any technical refreshes that we go through, and that causes some fluctuation as well.

And then secondly, you talked about the difficulty of the FedRAMP authorization and push it out as much as two years. I would think that the movement to the cloud that it would come faster than that. What's the government's sense of urgency on that?

Yes. So the movement into the cloud is not the hard part. The difficulty is having the processes in place and the tools in place to monitor what they call the CDM, constant data monitoring. These are the requirements that we have to meet. And not only that, after we move our systems into the cloud, each application and system must be certified and accredited in that cloud. So they have to go through that process regardless of the infrastructure. So the infrastructure itself, like the servers and the hardware and the firewalls and the switches, they are all configured to run at the particular security level. But once you put your application into that environment, that environment has – that system has to be certified, recertified and accredited specifically for that environment. And the advantage that we have is, is that we've already met those certification accreditation requirements for our systems and our environments. So now by moving our system into a certified environment, it short-circuited a lot of the certification and accreditation process of that has to happen, if that make sense.

No, it does make sense. Thank you.

Yes. It's a huge deal for us.

At this time, this concludes our question-and-answer session. And if your question was not taken, please contact WidePoint's IR team at wyy@gatewayir.com. I'd now like to turn the call over to Mr. Jin Kang for his closing remarks.

Thank you, operator. We appreciate everyone taking the time to join us today. As the operator mentioned, if there were any questions we did not address today, please contact our IR team. You can find their contact information at the bottom of today's earnings release. Thank you again and have a great evening. We look forward to connecting with you again on our next call.