Acquisition
New (fiscal) year resolution: Get your IT budget fit
Tips for learning to do more with less
Acquisition
Editorial: The culture war
The decision to pull the share-in-savings rule is part of a divisive culture in which agencies cannot try anything new or innovative. That needs to change
Modernization
GSA issues satellite RFP
The General Services Administration is accepting bids on Satcom-II, a new contract that will replace the existing GSA Satellite Services program.
Acquisition
Share in savings struggles for second chance
Rep. Tom Davis will try to restore statutory authority for share-in-savings contracting.
Modernization
Coalition creates council on tech convergence
The Council on Telecommunications-Technology Convergence will bring together companies that provide technologies involved in the convergence of IT and communications.
Modernization
NSF requests $50M for IT
The National Science Foundation has budgeted $19.7 million for a major IT infrastructure and office automation upgrade in fiscal 2007.
People
Longtime share-in-savings proponent moves to HHS
Ken Buck, former director of share-in-savings contracting at the General Services Administration, has moved to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Acquisition
GSA skeds see first spending drop in a decade
Research firm logs a 2 percent drop, following five years of double-digit growth in IT sales through the contracts.
Acquisition
GSA Preferred takes budget hit
Most of the agency's other IT projects held steady in the Bush administration's fiscal 2007 budget request.
People
Indiana awards job matching system contract to Monster
Under the $2.8 million contract, Monster Government Solutions will modernize the state's job Web site.
Modernization
GSA's Suda moves to Agriculture
Robert Suda, assistant commissioner for information technology solutions at the Federal Technology Service, will leave GSA.
People
OMB pushes contracting certification
New certification standards are part of a governmentwide effort to improve the skills of the federal contracting workforce.
People
SSA seeks data recovery software
The Social Security Administration is fortifying its disaster readiness by seeking information from vendors about mainframe data recovery software.
People
DOD review of $13B Encore II to be completed by Feb. 14
Revisions expected, with new due date 30 days after release of new amendment.
Acquisition
FAR Council withdraws share-in-savings rule
The future of the contracting practice is uncertain after Congress fails to revive expired statutory authority.
Modernization
USPS to update automated forms
The U.S. Postal Service wants to convert its automated forms into intelligent documents that can accept digital signatures.
Modernization
GSA: Complexity causes Networx delay
Governmentwide communications contract proved to be too complex to award this summer as planned, agency says.
Modernization
Secure Border Initiative on fast track
DHS plans to issue a solicitation for a multibillion-dollar security initiative that will rely heavily on technology.
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