Digital Government
Air Force BPA strategy draws fire
The contracting strategy used by the Air Force's Standard Systems Group to procure replacement blanket purchase agreements for its information technology product and service contracts is drawing fire from vendors claiming that the Air Force is violating the intent of competitive contracting. SSG ha
Digital Government
PeopleSoft, SAP approved for financial sked
Two major players in the enterprise business application arena are now offering their financials packages through the General Services Administration's mandatory Financial Management System Software schedule. GSA added the products from PeopleSoft Inc. and SAP America Public Sector Inc. to the Fede
Digital Government
GSA kicks off engineering, technical services sked
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service yesterday released a draft statement of work for a new engineering and technical services multipleaward schedule.
Digital Government
OMB approves financial management software plan
The Office of Management and Budget has approved a plan enabling federal agencies to buy financial management software from the open General Services Administration Federal Supply Service schedule rather than the mandatory Financial Management System Software (FMSS) schedule.
Digital Government
Study: Desktop services to increase federal outsourcing
Desktop services, including seat management-style contracting, are likely to drive the growth of outsourcing at federal agencies over the next five years, according to a study released yesterday.
Digital Government
GSA urges feds to plan IT buys
Federal agencies should develop policies that push them to plan more carefully how they will buy information technology before they make the transaction, according to a white paper released last week by the General Services Administration's Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP).
Digital Government
Looking at the big picture
There are times when attention to detail is allimportant. But a lack of attention to fine points, the very thing that kept Marty Wagner from becoming an accomplished engineer, made him a great administrator. An aeronautical engineer by training, Wagner soon discovered that his talents were more su
Digital Government
GSA gives employees Seat preview
Employees of the General Services Administration had their first glimpse of what life will be like under Seat Management desktop outsourcing last week in a presentation sent to offices across the country by multicast and satellite. Over the next two years, GSA will transition maintenance of all its
Digital Government
HUD remodels, simplifies home page
The most requested information on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's World Wide Web site is simple: how to buy a home. It has not been simple, however, to get to that information through the many layers of the agency's Web site. But that changed last week when HUD unveiled a new look
Digital Government
GSA kicks off key security contract
(Several agencies have signed on to a proposed governmentwide digital certificates contract, giving the digital government initiative a boost. But vendors are concerned about how much money they can make on the contract and about technical hurdles. The Access Certificates for Electronic Services (A
Digital Government
Old systems, missing data put EPA at risk
Outdated computer systems and missing data are two significant barriers to the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to perform its job, according to a General Accounting Office report released last month.
Digital Government
Industry Watch
Products meet fed security guides Products from two companies have completed computer security evaluations under the new Trust Technology Assessment Program, a joint initiative between the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The commoncriteria security
Digital Government
Inaccurate IT systems waste billions at HUD
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is wasting billions of dollars because of poor procurement management and an inaccurate financial management system, according to a General Accounting Office report released last month.
Digital Government
GSA rethinks IT personal use
A governmentwide policy under development at the General Services Administration would loosen a hodgepodge of existing policies governing federal employees' personal use of government office equipment, including computers. According to the draft policy, federal employees could use electronic equipm
Digital Government
ACS to run GSA solutions center
The General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service last month awarded ACS Government Solutions Group Inc. an $87 million contract for the creation of a Systems Development Center to provide information technology solutions to PBS offices across the country.
Digital Government
SAP lands on financial management sked
SAP America Public Sector Inc. today announced that its SAP R/3 product, training and consulting services are on the General Services Administration's Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) schedule.
Digital Government
Dell names Buchsbaum head of federal division
SAP America Public Sector Inc. today announced that its SAP R/3 product, training and consulting services are on the General Services Administration's Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) schedule.
Digital Government
Contract may lead to SSA bringing back controversial online program
The Social Security Administration has signed on to a governmentwide digital certificates contract that may lead to the resurrection of a controversial online program that allowed Americans to access their Social Security information over the Internet, the General Services Administration announced today at a preproposal conference.
Digital Government
GSA to test new buying concept
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service plans to develop by June up to five pilot contracts to test an innovative method of funding information technology projects. Agencies using the new method, called shareinsavings, can create contracts for IT systems that require litt
Digital Government
Dell builds sales success around strong customer relationships
Dell Computer Corp. blew away the competition on the General Services Administration schedule last year. The gap between Dell and its closest competitor, Gateway Inc., spread from about $40 million in 1997 to almost $248 million in 1998. In sales reported from July 1996 through June 1997, the compa
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