IQN has extended and expanded its strategic alliance with Bartech Group. IQN's alliance with Bartech Group enables IQN customers to improve their market position through greater quality, efficiency, cost savings and transparency while minimizing the risks associated with the management of contract labor and workforce solutions. Based on the success of the partnership to date, IQN and Bartech are extending their alliance with a long-term agreement that also expands the two companies' collaboration in a number of areas that will deliver innovations and greater efficiencies to customers.

IQN's vendor management technology, combined with Bartech's powerful Managed Service Provider (MSP) capabilities, gives companies a powerful tool in the war for talent. The advantages of Bartech Group's technologies include faster and easier implementation of contingent workforce management solutions, a high-touch customer support network and, most importantly, continued innovation to allow customers to recruit and maintain a competitive, contingent workforce. Bartech delivers vendor-neutral Managed Service Provider (MSP) programs powered by world-class Vendor Management System (VMS) technologies.

The company's vendor-neutral approach to workforce needs provides clients solution objectivity and integrity through the complete elimination of conflicts of interest. With an emphasis on risk mitigation, Bartech specializes in policy development and compliance, process standardization, workflow automation, supplier administration and rate management strategies-a perfect fit within IQN's existing partnership ecosystem.