Intercede Share Discussion Threads

[taurusthebear] 24/10/2006 08:26

I'd be tempted to top-slice now if it wasn't for the fact that the company is still only on a market cap. of about 17 million quid. This looks cheap in the medium-term, but a bit spiky right now. However, the long-term chart might suggest no resistance up to about 80p. Nice! :0)

[yump] 24/10/2006 08:26

What's happened to the ADVFN charts, mine's showing 50p+ ?!!!

[simonparker5] 24/10/2006 08:23

Spooky no I am not a closet express reader I just like what I see.

[spooky] 24/10/2006 08:21

I can't believe the note in the Express would do it,surely there would be a stream of small buyers 1000-10000 shares.Simonparker5 are you an Express reader,go on you can tell us we can keep a secret :-o)

[taurusthebear] 24/10/2006 08:16

Ironic that a 2-liner in the Express can get it moving a lot more than the write-up in the Telegraph on Sunday! I was amazed to be able to pick some more up at 39p yesterday following the RNS as well, an example of the market being asleep, I think... :0)

[wjccghcc] 24/10/2006 08:13

Express
SHARE WHISPER: Intercede (shares jumped Monday after order from Gemalto;
traders see huge potential for company)

[smartmoney100] 24/10/2006 08:12

Taurus - SOLA is my 4th largest. If it gets to 6 quid....etc etc ...lol

[guppyworld] 24/10/2006 08:10

they were tipped in weekend press.

[spooky] 24/10/2006 08:08

There must be a reason for this morning's move,simonparker5 why were you willing to pay up this morning have they been tipped somewhere ?

[papalpower] 24/10/2006 08:04

Something is afoot, and happily its pushing IGP further upwards :)

[taurusthebear] 24/10/2006 08:02

Smart - IGP my 4th largest of 4 holdings, but if it gets to 75p it'll be larger than IND or IBG... :0)

[simonparker5] 24/10/2006 07:58

just had to pay 47p in pre market when the spread was 43-45. MMs either taking advantage or very short of stock.

[hybrasil] 24/10/2006 07:56

thats a rerating almost already but I reckon this one has a long way further to travel

[taurusthebear] 24/10/2006 07:54

Marked up 7% pre-opening, seems that the MMs missed their opportunity to do that yesterday! :0)

[hybrasil] 24/10/2006 07:23

topvest
Our paths cross yet again. I wasnt as prescient as you here. I think I paid 36p for my holding. In such a growth area a multiple of 3 X sales seems to me to be very low indeed. Its due a rerating.

[topvest] 23/10/2006 22:07

Mine were all at c20p and so taken a while to double, but looks interesting from this point on!

[papalpower] 23/10/2006 18:42

Small holding, but a profitable one :) Thanks igoe104 :)

[rambutan2] 23/10/2006 17:21

ok, it's currently my 2nd largest holding and my av buying price is 21p, although that masks a highest price paid of 49p in 2002 and a lowest price paid of 15.5p last year.

today was by far the best trading day igp has ever had. looks like those who needed to be were prepared, which bodes well.

[smartmoney100] 23/10/2006 17:07

Gosh! IGP became my largest holding today (partly due to a fall in IND).

I'd be quite interested to know where IGP sits in the pecking order in others portfolios?

Cheers Sm

[wjccghcc] 23/10/2006 15:43

More info on the EPA HSPD contract.

"As at many agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency's decision on how to comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 was up in the air for a while.

Officials could either join a shared-services provider or implement the interoperable identification card system by themselves.

EPA, like the Housing and Urban Development Department, decided to do it both ways. For the areas of the country with a large number of employees - starting with Washington - EPA will develop its own system, compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard 201-1. For areas that are more remote, the agency will use a shared-services provider's enrollment station to meet the mandate.

"We feel that, based on the way the agency is organized and the way we do business functionally, we were in the best position to do the hybrid approach," said Wes Carpenter, director of EPA's security management division in the Office of Administration and Resources Management. "We are going to start issuing cards on or before Oct. 27 and then phase in our offices through September 2008." Oct. 27 is the Office of Management and Budget's deadline for agencies to begin issuing cards.

Carpenter added that EPA has about 30,000 people who will need cards, including 18,500 employees and 8,000 to 12,000 nonfederal workers.

"The enrollment station concept came out four to six months ago," he said. "Before that, we were going to go individually."

The hybrid approach poses many challenges, including the need to award contracts for an integrator, public-key infrastructure provider and a card management system. EPA did all three over the past year, including the PKI provider and card management system in the past month.

EPA first hired Maximus Inc. of Reston, Va., last November under a five-year, $2.9 million contract to help with planning and eventually to be their system's integrator.

"The intention of the contract was to fully develop their requirements and design documents to implement HSPD-12," said Mary Whitely, Maximus' federal systems division president. "EPA evaluated products based on our recommendations and analysis, and made their decision."

Maximus is writing interfaces and doing testing so the agency can produce cards on Oct. 27, Whitely added.

EPA also hired Operational Research Consultants Inc. of Fairfax, Va., to be its shared-services provider and deliver 26,000 cards with credentials.

Dan Turissini, ORC chief executive officer, said workers are putting the registration practice statement in place. The RPS is the agreement between the SSP and the agency policy authority describing the process for issuing cards with a digital certificate.

ORC will provide EPA with 6,000 cards every six months for two years, with an extra 2,000 floating across all four periods.

Finally, EPA bought the card management system from RSA Security, the security division of EMC Corp. of Hopkinton, Mass. Maximus is installing the system.

So with all these pieces coming into place, EPA's Carpenter said employees at headquarters in Washington will receive their cards first, and then the agency will start moving cards out to regional offices.

"We want to make sure we do things right locally and get the kinks out of the system," he said.

Carpenter could not comment on the price of the cards, saying they are evolving. He did say, however, that EPA would be competitive with what the General Services Administration proposed under its SSP. GSA has quoted a price per card of about $110.

"Based on our ability to do this individually and also leverage the experience GSA and others have with a shared-services provider, we may end up realizing going down one road is better than the other and migrate that way," Carpenter said"

[taurusthebear] 23/10/2006 15:06

Nice to see a stock go up steadily over the day rather than the usual MM orgasm before 8.30am and then a retrenchment. Hopefully 40p will now prove to be a support rather than resistance. Another RNS re FIPS would just about make my week on IGP... :0)

[yump] 23/10/2006 15:01

Came back after a nice lunch and its still going - very nice. Should have had the lobster !

Very scary and illogical this investing business. Mild panic at 24p and now all looking positive at 41p.

[boadicea] 23/10/2006 13:15

It is normally against my judgement to buy early on a Monday when a stock has had some weekend interest or an RNS. I made an exception today and thanks to the 'orderly trading' noted above it has proved to be the correct action - so far.
I am also ready to add on the dips, if we get one at a reasonable level.

[rambutan2] 23/10/2006 11:18

yes, v nice orderly trading this morning. looks like everyone was ready and is on best behaviour. think i can forget that 45p, but all in all looking like a good result with some new punters aboard and not scared off by illiquidity.