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Quality Assurance Plan

Quality Assurance Plan

The Columbia Group is committed to providing the highest quality engineering, technical, and programmatic support services and enhancing our customers’ success with products, services, and responsiveness that set the standard for quality and value. We are relentless in our quest to be the best in every aspect of our business by fostering a culture of responsibility, trust, and teamwork. We value our employees, maintain high expectations, and encourage innovation in furtherance of our quality and customer service goals.

We are committed to open and honest communication with our customers and teammates and strive to do our best to understand and anticipate their needs and requirements. We set goals and objectives that ensure we meet their expectations and are unyielding in our quest for continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

We have established a comprehensive quality program that will allow us to meet all of the requirements of applicable quality assurance standards. This program concentrates on providing our customers:

  • Defect-free products and services;
  • A commitment to meet requirements for cost, performance and satisfaction; and,
  • A commitment to continuous improvement in our products and services.

Our quality management system is designed as a system of interrelated processes. All main activities in the company are defined as Quality System Processes (QSPs) and are grouped into the following categories:

  • Customer Requirements;
  • Product realization;
  • Measurements, Analysis and Improvement;
  • Management Responsibility;
  • Resource Management; and
  • Continual Improvement.

Our goal is simple: We are committed to understand, anticipate, and meet or exceed our customers’ expectations.

Leadership Team

Leadership Team

Martin Arase – President

Martin has over 25 years of senior-level management experience as well as experience managing large and small projects. As president of The Columbia Group he has overseen the company’s operations, customer relations, growth, and profitability while successfully steering the company’s expansion into logistics, engineering, database development, and more. Under his leadership, the company has proudly provided quality services to a customer base consisting of federal, state, and local governments as well as private industry.

John Carty, Jr – Division Manager

John directs the operations of the Rosenblatt Marine Technical Division, and leads strategy and business development for the company. Prior to coming to TCG, he established a strong track record of growing companies and has extensive experience managing large programs and organizations. John is a retired Navy Supply Corps Officer. His active duty career featured tours aboard a fast attack submarine, an aircraft carrier, the National Security Council at the White House, and multiple acquisition positions.

When he is not working, John can usually be found on his sailboat.

Contract Vehicles

Contract Vehicles

The Columbia Group has a portfolio of IDIQ contracts listed below.

  • USV FoS MAC Contract – #N0002420D6356
  • SeaPort NxG Contract – #N0017819D7374
  • GSA MAC (Multiple Award Schedule) Contract – #GS00F201CA
  • RAPID MAC – Pool 1 Contract – #N0042122D0058
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History

Our History

The Columbia Group can trace its roots back to 1967, when Columbia Research Corporation (CRC) was founded. For over 35 years, CRC supported several military programs with expertise in engineering, logistics and acquisition.

Then, in 2005, President Martin Arase formed The Columbia Group by acquiring CRC and merging it with CPI., a financial management and information technology services provider.

The Columbia Group assumed the operations of AMSEC Rosenblatt’s Washington, DC office in June 2008, a division which specialized in naval architecture and marine engineering. This acquisition created the Columbia Group’s Rosenblatt Ship Design Division (now known as the Rosenblatt Marine Technical Division) and expanded The Columbia Group’s naval architecture and marine engineering capability, adding ship design for whole and auxiliary ships systems to The Columbia Group’s service offerings.