*** The General Services Administration is looking for contractor support in multiple IT procurement and strategy offices to help with price transparency, obtaining best value and to generally help "to run IT like a business by leveraging authoritative data to make data-driven decisions and analyze tradeoffs between cost, quality and value."
*** Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is calling on President Joe Biden to reinstate a ban on the social video network TikTok after it was reported that the Chinese government asserted an ownership stake in TikTok's parent company ByteDance. The Trump administration announced plans to ban TikTok, claiming national security risks, but that ban was never put in place. The ban was revoked by executive order this June.
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