Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions) We’ll take our first question from. It comes from Kevin McVeigh with Credit Suisse.
Kevin McVeigh – Credit Suisse
Great. Hey, great job on the quarter in obviously a very, very difficult environment. I wonder given the sequential uptick in Tech Flex, do you think any of that had to do with kind of budget flush or just real, real nice job with the sequential uptick relative to some of your peers. Just want to understand a little bit more if we could.
David Dunkel
Kevin, this is Dave. Thank you for you compliments. I would say the improvement in Tech Flex is execution. If you look at our KPI’s and the performance of our field teams, the – it’s consistent across our geographies and it’s consistent across our customer base. So, large account, national account and even medium and smaller accounts, we are seeing improvements. So, I just – I would take hats off to our team I think it’s an excellent job.
Kevin McVeigh – Credit Suisse
Great. And Dave (inaudible) discussions about 2010, have clients started to give an indication on kind of budget starting to free up a little bit and specifically in our discretionary as opposed what I consider more non-discretionary type work?
David Dunkel
What we are hearing is the backlog of work and the pressure has been building to some of the projects that are in the queue can no longer be delayed and that there is a greater urgency now to move these into the pipeline. So, it’s difficult to categorize the nature of each one of them, but there is no question that there is real pressure on the technology departments of our clients to move these things off the back burner and some of these things, as you know, are deferred maintenance and can on longer be deferred. There are upgrades that need to be done and investments that need to be done to comply with regulatory changes and so forth. So, I would say from an anecdotal standpoint the tonality (inaudible) what we are hearing from clients for 2010 right now is positive.
Kevin McVeigh – Credit Suisse
Great. And one more if I could. Obviously, you’ve done a tremendous job with the NRC through this down cycle. Is there any way to quantify how much more (inaudible) help preserve as a result of kind of business flowing through that versus when you didn’t have it in the past? I know that it’s probably pretty tough to track, but is there any way to think about that?
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