MAXIMUS Awarded New Student Debt CollectionContract.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000--(NYSE:MMS)

MAXIMUS announced today that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded the company a contract to provide debt collection services for student-related debt accounts.

Under this

contract, MAXIMUS will locate student loan borrowers and make contact in an attempt to collect the delinquent balances owed. MAXIMUS will also work to resolve disputed loan balances and document appropriate accounts for litigation. MAXCollect(tm), a MAXIMUS proprietary debt collection system, will be utilized in this collection services contract.

During the initial two-month contract period, MAXIMUS will be forwarded 20,000 accounts, which are estimated to represent approximately $1.1 million in revenues to the company.

Should MAXIMUS prove successful, up to 900,000 additional cases may be assigned MAXIMUS, thus substantially increasing the value of the contract over the 54-month period of performance. This contract will be managed by the MAXIMUS Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Collections Center.

"MAXIMUS is pleased to have been selected to assist the U.S Department of Education," said Dr. David V. Mastran, CEO of MAXIMUS. "We have had outstanding success in other areas of governmental debt collection and look forward to our entry into this new arena of debt collection."

MAXIMUS has provided collection services to state and local agencies for more than eight years. In Fiscal Year 1999, MAXIMUS efforts resulted in collections in excess of a quarter billion dollars for state and local agencies.

MAXIMUS is one of America's largest government services companies devoted to providing state and local governments with program management, information technology, and consulting services. The company has more than 4,100 employees located in more than 130 offices across the United States.

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