HUMASYS has been incorporated in Canada since Feb 2004. Until then it was a partnership operating under the same name. WHOIS record for HUMASYS.CA gives 01/17/2002 as the registration date. However - the core group of partners and developers has been working together since 2001.

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As a privately held corporation, HUMASYS does not release financial statements. HUMASYS has continued significant growth over the last couple of years. In 2006, HUMASYS has grown its revenues by more than 35 percent. At the same time, we have managed an even more impressive growth in net income, up nearly 100 percent compared to the last year. The company is generating positive net income and cash flow, and we anticipate the increased profitability trend to continue. Should HUMASYS be the vendor of your choice we would then may be in a position to share this information with you.

Humasys is owned by four founding and managing partners. 
We have two Sales / Consulting offices: one is based in Toronto, Canada and one based in Leipzig, Germany. Several people in these offices provide services of business analysis, quality assurance, development of specifications, project management, help with deployment and obviously overall outsourcing coordination. 
We also have the Development Center located in St.Petersburg, Russia. In the fall of 2006 we had over 20 full-time highly qualified developers plus several part-time contractors working there. 
The position of the head of development center in Russia is rotating. One of the partners is always located in Russia where he or she assumes responsibilities of the Center Operations Manager and interacts with offshore BA, PM, Developers and QA representatives directly. 
A Client can contact any one of the partners in any office for quotes and/or service.

We strongly suggest considering one of the existing shrink-wrapped e-commerce solutions, such as VPASP, OS Commerce, Zend Shopping Cart etc. because they provide most common e-commerce functionality for a very reasonable price. 
We can also build an e-commerce site ourselves. We have done many before and I am sure we would have most of the necessary code components already developed and readily available. We've also done much integration with various payment gateways too, such as PayPal, Verisign, Authorize.net etc. 
Based on our experience, successful, custom made and unique e-commerce systems require at least half a year development timeframe and development budget starting from $20,000. We would be happy to assist you with such a project starting immediately.

We do have vast experience with fixed bid pricing. In fact, some of our most valuable relationships started out with a fixed bid. However - these very relationships have grown into T&M model over time. 
That's because the fixed bid pricing is never a good solution for anyone. -It actually takes extra time and effort to come up with a precise estimate. -It often turns out to be more expensive for the customer because we add extra premium on top of our estimate to cover for risk management. -It requires continuous involvement of management on both sides to work around scope change issues that always exist in all projects. -Fixed bid is inappropriate for Research & Development or routine code maintenance projects with unpredictable outcomes; -Fixed bid often becomes a competition between the client's and supplier's management teams: each trying to argue their outlook at the change and/or overrun issues is the truest one. As we believe in win-win relationships we don't want to compete with our clients. 
Because of all that we no longer work on fixed bid basis.

Our standard rate is $25US per hour somewhat negotiable based on project's size and term and other ad-hoc factors. Unfortunately we do not work of fixed bid basis (please see f.a.q. above). 
We do have developers with required skill sets. The best way to start would seem to be for us to have a look at the materials/requirements that you have to date (database schemas and PowerPoint slides for sure, existing code desirable). We are ready to enter into a NDA and/or NC (non-compete) as required. We would then analyze your code, estimate effort and get back to you with our proposal.

We suggest that you have a look at our development process described here. This process defines several project roles. One of these roles, specifically a BA/PM role must be assigned locally, i.e. on your side. This resource should be able to articulate business (and sometimes technical) requirements to us and should be able to resolve various business related questions, such as required vs proposed timeframes, budgets, goals and task priorities. Once the business requirements are formalized you can send it to us for our evaluation and we'll take it from there.

Monthly resources allocations. 
All offshore roles (as described in our engagement model here) will require a minimum of one fulltime dedicated resource. Considering ongoing nature of many project as well as inevitable switching costs when allocating developers between projects the minimum billable block of time that we will be able to accommodate to any project is 1 man-month.

No, we don't have any proprietary code. All developed code belongs to our clients. Most of our work is custom software development when all the source code and all IP in general remains sole property of our clients.