Quality Positioning Services B.V. (QPS)

Quality Positioning Services BV (QPS), headquartered in Zeist, The Netherlands, is an independent software design company founded in 1986. QPS subsidiary offices are located in Portsmouth USA, in Fredericton Canada, and in Banbury UK. Initially oriented towards navigation and positioning consultancy, QPS evolved to development of integrated navigation system software embracing real-time quality control/quality assurance functionality, missing at that time in contractor software. When survey contractors began purchasing QPS software, the company emerged as a full-time software house. In 1996 QPS moved from MS-DOS to start the development of a new Windows based software package named QINSy (Quality Integrated Navigation System). Sales started in 1997 and today many vessels use QINSy for navigation and positioning, data collection and processing.