Acquisition
SSA awards contract for network equipment services
Prism Pointe Technologies will provide service for 46,000 pieces of hardware in more than 1,500 SSA offices nationwide.
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Army hires LGS to help with network upgrades
The company will conduct the upgrades at military facilities in Germany.
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VA taps EDS for personal identity verification cards
Under the $11.6 million contract, the company will assist VA in issuing cards in a format accepted throughout the federal government.
Acquisition
Letter: How does Internet initiative affect new contracts?
The "deadline-then-plan" method behind the Trusted Internet Connections initiative is insane, a reader says.
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IG: DOD fails on competition
The department made awards with improper competition and didn't justify why it went outside DOD for acquisition services, a new report states.
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Clinton: Alaska Native firm may have gotten unfair bonus
Chenega Technology Services improperly won a DHS contract, and the senator wants the IG to investigate the award further.
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OFPP issues policy requiring training for support workers
It also standardizes the skills contracting officer technical representatives must have.
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Letter: Editorial trivializes disagreement between IG, contracting officers
If Lurita Doan goes soft now, more contracting officers will leave government service and more companies will leave the GSA schedules.
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DIA at work on new data-sharing system
The agency hires McDonald Bradley to design and build the Force Protection Assessment system.
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DOD program manager: Know Army needs before bidding
Gary Winkler, program executive officer for DOD's Enterprise Information Systems, is working to reduce the number of contract protests.
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Letter: Agencies should boycott ACS
The way the company treats its lower-level employees is disgraceful.
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Idaho health department taps ACS for benefits management
Affiliated Computer Services will provide pharmacy claims processing, automated prior authorizations, help-desk support, prospective and retrospective drug use reviews, and federal and supplemental drug rebate administration and reporting.
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IG: DHS wrongly awarded contract to Alaska Native firm
A coding error is to blame for the improper award of a 10-year, $475 million sole-source contract to Chenega Technology Services.
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Wilkinson to leave GSA
The General Services Administration’s chief acquisition officer Molly Wilkinson has resigned after a short seven-and-a-half month stint.
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Measuring green
Agencies turn to service-level agreements and other forms of performance contracting to achieve new energy efficiency and electronics stewardship goals
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