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Services job joins pending $200M pact to replace NOAVA
The Department of Veterans Affairs late last month kicked off a support services buy that will accompany a $200 million computer equipment solicitation already under way. The two contracts will replace the agency's $298 million Nationwide Office Automation for the VA (NOAVA) program. The request fo
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DOD to extend SAIC contract; other vendors question impact
Late last month the Defense Department said it planned to extend its contract for the $1 billion Composite Health Care System (CHCS), angering the health care automation industry but creating a potential boon for contractor Science Applications International Corp. A notice published Jan. 23 in the
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Report: Private nets will save big bucks
The government can save millions of dollars a year by consolidating traffic on private networks run by individual agencies, according to an interagency report delivered last week to the Government Information Technology Services Working Group. The report, "Inventory of Private Telecommunications N
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GSA's Post-FTS 2000 plan goes `back to the future'
The General Services Administration last week revised its PostFTS 2000 (PF2K) acquisition strategy, eliminating shortterm plans to award "niche" contracts and offering vendors a minimum guarantee of $1 billion in revenue. The changes transform the PF2K acquisition originally envisioned as a
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Vendors aim ATM at lower-speed nets
WASHINGTON D.C. Many of the Asynchronous Transfer Moderelated products announced or demonstrated last week at ComNet reflect a vendor push to bring ATM to users outside the scope of the highspeed highbandwidth applications typically associated with the technology. ATM was initially billed as
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Johnson plans to step down March 1
General Services Administrator Roger Johnson late last month announced his resignation, marking the end of a tenure that saw the agency's information technology oversight dwindle and its ranks diminish. The resignation will be effective March 1. Reaction at GSA was mixed as Johnson, who presided ov
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Ex-GSA exec looks back with pride
William Cunnane, former General Services Administration deputy assistant administrator for FTS 2000, left his 35year career of government service last month with a sense of tangible accomplishment in helping shape today's advanced, as well as lowcost, federal telecommunications system. In a post
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Bell Atlantic upgrades WITS users to Sonet
Bell Atlantic Federal Systems last weekend began to move users of its Washington Interagency Telecommunications Service (WITS) to a Synchronous Optical Network (Sonet) ring offering connections to federal sites of up to 155 megabit/sec. The upgrade to fournode Sonet represents a recognition by Bel
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Lockheed, HP offer medical info systems
Lockheed Martin IMS and HewlettPackard Co. have teamed to offer medical information systems and services to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The two companies initially came together to test HP's CareVue patient information system in the Philadelphia VA Medical Center as part of the VA's Hybrid
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FSS to open schedules to state, local buys
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service soon will open up 10 percent of its schedule contracts to purchases by state and local governments, as a first step toward expanding the schedule program beyond the federal government. William Gormley, assistant commissioner in the FSS Of
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GSA, SSA, Iowa team on benefits program
The National Performance Review office last month presented officials from the Social Security Administration and the General Services Administration with a Hammer Award for a videoconferencing pilot project operated by the agencies in conjunction with the Iowa state government. Ron Piasecki, GSA's
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Development plan, furloughs, snow delay Post-FTS 2000 RFP
The General Services Administration is delaying the release of the PostFTS 2000 request for proposals to further develop the implementation plan and because of time lost due to furloughs and snowstorms. Bob Woods, commissioner of GSA's Federal Telecommunications Service, said he did not know how l
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WITS follow-on put on hold
The General Services Administration has put a hold on a followon procurement for the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WITS) program, the local phone service contract for federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., metro area. Wayne Brady, director of telecommunications planning in G
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Mustang seeks to expand fed business
Mustang Software Inc., creator of the Wildcat! bulletin board system, plans to establish a federal sales force in 1996 and expand its federal sales up to about $10 million. Jim Harrer, Mustang's president and chief executive officer, said the new sales force will work with resellers and directly wi
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Eight to share $840M support services contract
The General Services Administration ended the year in keeping with the holidays, giving contracts to all eight finalists on its $840 million Multiple Award Indefinite Quantity (MAIQ) support services program. The announcement is part of a growing trend toward awarding federal contracts to multiple
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