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FTS chief stands strong on services
Original artwork commemorating the Persian Gulf War adorns the walls of Dennis Fischer's office in Tysons Corner, Va. The painting holds a special meaning for Fischer, the commissioner of the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service, because it recalls the one time in his life w
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Opening Doors and Lives
It was not unusual for the Hadleys, a deeply religious family living in Paducah, Ky., to discuss serious subjects while having dinner. One recent discussion for the Hadley family Chuck, Gwen and their three children: Christina, 15; Nicole, 14; and Andrew, 12 was about organ donation. Nicole, w
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Report shows how to creatively fund info tech projects
The Intergovernmental Advisory Board (IAB) of the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils last week issued a report designed to help federal, state and local government agencies develop innovative ways to fund information technology projects. The board, which consists of nine membe
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GAO: Feds ignoring Clinger-Cohen rules
The General Accounting Office and the Defense Department's inspector general told Congress last week that agencies have been violating the spirit of the ClingerCohen Act by using multipleaward task order contracts to circumvent competition and channel business to favored vendors. 'Based on our on
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MCI networks congressional House offices to district offices
MCI late last month concluded installation of a new data network that will connect the Washington, D.C., offices of Congress members in the House of Representatives to their district offices in about 400 locations throughout the country. Susan Zeleniak, a branch manager at MCI Government Markets, s
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GSA's Barram overrules SBA; releases sked
The General Services Administration plans to issue today the longdelayed solicitation for information technology products and services on the multipleaward schedule. David Barram, GSA's administrator, late last week made decisions on several issues raised by the Small Business Administration, whi
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Big savings sway USDA to switch to GSA pact
The Agriculture Department's National Finance Center (NFC) last month switched from its own contract for disaster recovery services to one awarded by the General Services Administration's Federal Systems Integration and Management Center. Fedsim officials are trumpeting the USDA's switch to its Dat
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Telecom fee rankles cash-strapped agencies
ATLANTA The General Services Administration and the Defense Department are at odds with AT&T and Sprint over a new 4.9 percent 'universal service fee' that the companies have tacked onto FTS 2000 longdistance bills that will require agencies to pay millions of dollars more each month for telecom
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LOC seeks more funds
The increasing popularity of the Library of Congress' THOMAS World Wide Web site and the organization's expanding effort to digitize historical documents in its collection have required the Library to request an additional $5.2 million for its fiscal 1999 information technology budget. Librarian of
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Transition to FTS 2001 network has agency users worried
ATLANTA Federal users of the governmentwide FTS 2000 longdistance network last week raised concerns about how the transition to the FTS 2001 network may adversely affect missioncritical applications and whether agencies are making adequate preparations for the switch. For example, Ron Hack, dir
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European ATM vendor teams with Timeplex
Officials at Timeplex Federal Systems Inc. announced this month that their company will serve as the 'marketing and sales arm' for Alcatel Data Networks, a business unit of the European telecommunications equipment giant that previously has eschewed the federal market. Timeplex Federal president Wa
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Virginia Rep. Tom Davis Plans new Cooperative Purchasing Push
Virginia Rep. Tom Davis Plans new Cooperative Purchasing Push
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Davis plans to resurrect cooperative purchasing
Rep. Tom Davis (RVa.) last week said he will introduce legislation this year to allow state and local governments to purchase information technology products and services from the General Services Administration's federal supply schedule. Meanwhile, opponents of cooperative purchasing have vowed t
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Bell Atlantic wins GAO contract
Bell Atlantic Federal Systems expects to begin work this week on its first nationwide contract to offer telecommunications maintenance services and equipment to a federal agency. The General Accounting Office awarded the Consolidated Field Office Maintenance contract, worth a minimum of $1.4 millio
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DOD, GSA unveil dueling nets
The Defense Department and the General Services Administration unveiled plans last week to build stateoftheart telecommunications networks to serve the vast pool of more than 300,000 DOD and civilian employees in the Washington, D.C., area. GSA made it clear that it intends to develop a Washingt
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CINEMA sales fall flat at GSA
Despite projections by the General Services Administration that a governmentwide contract offering electronic commerce, Internet access and email services would bring in $600 million over five years, the program has netted only about $500,000 after nearly a year. In April 1997, GSA awarded the Com
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Sprint adds new interactive toll-free service to FTS 2000
Sprint began offering last month a new interactive tollfree service on FTS 2000 to allow agencies to provide 24hour automated information to callers in a more efficient manner. The service, known as Interactive Voice Response (IVR), is already being installed in pilot tests at the Veterans Benefi
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GSA releases local phone service RFP amid congressional concerns
The General Services Administration last week issued a request for proposals for the first of a series of procurements under the auspices of its controversial Metropolitan Area Acquisition program, even as members of Congress and industry expressed concern about the program. The RFP covers interage
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GSA schedules delayed by small-business issues
Release of the General Services Administration's consolidated information technology schedule solicitation has been delayed for almost two months because the Small Business Administration contends that a schedule combining all IT products and services will hurt the interests of small businesses.
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Fund honors dean's legacy
The Information Resources Management College has established the John M. Carabello Prize for Excellence in Information Resources Management Education in memory of the college's founding dean, who died Jan. 31 at age 56. Jerome Smith, Carabello's successor as dean of the IRM College, said the prize
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