The Company has contracts in operation or development covering a wide array of state and local governmental transactions, including the renewal of driver's licenses, hunting, fishing and boating licenses and permits, and professional licenses, as well as vehicle registration, payment of traffic citations and various corporate filings. Through these state-of-the-art systems, citizens and businesses can avoid the effort and delays involved in completing these transactions in person or through the mail. The systems also enable governments to provide a valued service to their constituents, increase compliance and achieve substantial operating economies compared with current methods.
Richardson M. Roberts, Chief Executive Officer of Link2Gov, said, "Through this merger, Link2Gov now has the tools and critical mass to become the defining provider in this huge market. The reality of this market is that while many state and local government are moving to a web-based solution for serving their constituencies, most either remain paper-based or are considering intermediate steps, such as interactive voice response (IVR) telephony systems, in addition to plans to move on the Internet. We believe Link2Gov is unique among providers in its core markets because of the combination of G-Link, whose business was primarily based on IVR system contracts, and Link2Gov, whose business was based exclusively on Internet system contracts. Through this merger, we offer comprehensive systems that handle every aspect of a government's transition from paper-based systems to fully electronic systems."
Link2Gov's President, Larry C. Wine, remarked, "Another factor that clearly differentiates Link2Gov is the size of its combined contract base in a highly fragmented industry, which is primarily composed of small local or regional providers. We already have contracts in operation or in development with governmental agencies in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Texas and Washington, as well as pilot contracts in Colorado. We are also actively pursuing additional contracts in many of these states, as well as five others. Our ongoing reception in the market demonstrates the competitive advantages we gain because of the expertise we have developed in working with a wide range of governmental agencies and because we have successful systems in operation that are producing high satisfaction among our customers' constituencies, even as they provide our customers with significant operating efficiencies and other benefits."
Mr. Roberts concluded, "We know of no other company that offers a more robust e-government solution than the new Link2Gov. As a result, we believe we are strongly positioned for growth in a market that consists of more than $500 billion and hundreds of millions of transactions annually between citizens or businesses and their various governments. We intend to pursue the rapid growth of Link2Gov with a goal of becoming the primary electronic transaction processor for the country's 50 state governments, approximately 3,000 county governments and approximately 36,000 municipal governments. The combination of G-Link and Link2Gov gives us the sophisticated range of products, marketing expertise and management depth to achieve this goal."
Link2Gov, Inc., with offices in Nashville, Tennessee, and Pompano Beach, Florida, is a leading provider of advanced e-government and interactive voice response solutions that enable citizens and businesses to complete transactions with the government over the Internet or telephone. Link2Gov's unique G2C and G2B Solutions combine state-of-the-art web-based and IVR e-government systems with sophisticated electronic marketing expertise to provide government constituents easy and timely alternative methods for government transactions, while providing governments increased compliance and operating efficiencies.
G-Link Corporation, founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1996 provides IVR and web-based government transaction systems in seven states and is designing similar solutions for more than 20 other government customers. Richardson M. Roberts, G-Link's Chief Executive Officer, is the former co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PMT Services, Inc., one of the nation's largest publicly held credit card transaction processors, prior to being sold to NOVA Corp. (NYSE: NIS) in a $1.6 billion transaction.
Link2Gov.com, Inc.,
headquartered in Pompano, Florida, has developed and hosts,
or is developing, e-government web sites for government
agencies in Alabama, the District of Columbia, Georgia,
Florida and Washington. The Company was previously an
operating unit of iXL Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq NM: IIXL).
Larry Wine, President and Chief Executive Officer of Link2Gov.com,
was formerly Senior Vice President at First Data Corp,
where he led an e-commerce joint venture with Chase Manhattan
Bank.