PRWT Services, Inc., headquartered in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, was founded in 1988 to provide and manage back-office clerical
support services to public and private companies. Mr. Willie Johnson (Chairman) founded the Company along with
Raymond A. Saulino, Paul Dandridge, and William Turner (CFO). Prior to founding PRWT, Mr. Johnson ran
the Philadelphia Comprehensive Employee Training Act (CETA) program for
approximately five years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. CETA was the predecessor to the Private
Industry Council (PIC) and the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).
Upon inception, PRWT began providing the customer service
and back-office operations for the City of Philadelphia’s parking tickets as a
subcontractor to Lockheed Martin IMS. IMS was the state and local government division of the Lockheed Martin
Corporation. IMS was acquired by
ACS in 2001. Within the Municipal
Services base, PRWT also became an outsourcing service provider for other
municipalities and government agencies such as the City of Boston, the City of
Los Angeles, and the City of San Francisco.
Within the last ten years, PRWT has expanded its BPO
service offering from parking ticket processing to include other business units
including Transportation Services, Family and Community Services, Healthcare,
and Technical Services.
PRWT has been a nationally recognized labor force
management company that enables large public and private sector organizations
to outsource and dramatically improve their customer care operations. The core competencies of the Company
are the delivery of specialized customer care solutions and back-office
transaction processing centers, primarily for a government client base.
The Company has been
continually recognized by Black Enterprise as one of the 100 largest
minority controlled corporations in the nation. In 2001, the Company was awarded the U.S. Conference of
Mayors Excellence in Public/Private Partnership Award.
With the expansion of a national footprint, the Company grew from a one client, one location, 16-person operation to a multi-client, 23 contracts, and a 900-employee operation with nationwide service delivery capabilities.
In 2001, PRWT expanded its services and purchased U.S.
Facilities, Inc. (USF) from Halifax Technical Services, which was precedent
setting for a minority business enterprise to purchase a publicly traded
company. USF
provides professional facilities management and outsourcing services focusing
on complex and highly secure maintenance and management projects.
PRWT has a long and noteworthy history of community
involvement and is dedicated to supporting the communities in which it
operates. It has provided support
to many organizations, charities, and civic groups in all of its locations
across the country. The Company
continues to mentor smaller minority firms by providing subcontracting
opportunities to help nurture and grow these businesses.
In 2008, PRWT, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cherokee
Pharmaceuticals LLC, acquired an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) plant making
PRWT the first minority-owned API manufacturer in the United States. |
