Digital Government
Bell Atlantic rings up hardware sales
Although many companies on the General Services Administration schedule benefited from an increase in information technology services sales, one company is growing without relying on services. Bell Atlantic Federal attributes its phenomenal sales during the summer of 1998 to new hardware. In partic
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PBS picks Piatt as CIO
The General Services Administration Public Buildings Service has named William Piatt as chief information officer.
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Schedule sales dominate fed buying
The General Services Administration schedule has become the government's preferred vehicle for buying information technology products and services, with the top 30 vendors racking up more than $800 million in sales during the 1998 summer buying season
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Consulting firm Jefferson Group to split
The Jefferson Group Inc. consulting firm last week announced it will split to form two companies to better focus on the government relations and business consulting market segments it serves.
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GSA unveils revolutionary acquisition concept
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service yesterday introduced plans to develop contracts through a new method to fund information technology procurement in which vendors' payment is based on their performance.
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GSA picks 10 vendors in $25B pact
The General Services Administration last month selected 10 vendors to serve as the Federal Technology Service's primary source of information technology services for government customers nationwide, potentially worth $25 billion over 10 years. The winning vendors are Anteon Corp., BoozAllen ?#038; Amp; Hami
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GSA overhauls solicitation for ACES
The General Services Administration has released a 'massive rewrite' of its solicitation for a project that will verify individuals' identities for electronic transactions between agencies and the public a critical component for the concept of a digital government. The Access Certificates for Ele
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Litton/PRC nabs outsourcing deal
The first phase of the General Services Administration's Seat Management desktop outsourcing implementation should be finished by summer, serving as a model for other federal agencies looking at the contract, agency officials said. GSA is the first agency to use the Federal Technology Service's $9
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Skepticism greets GSA small-biz plan
Small and minorityowned businesses are skeptical about the potential of a new policy announced last week by the General Services Administration to boost their federal information technology business as subcontractors. The GSA said that it planned to tap small businesses on large contracts, startin
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GSA looks to funnel IT work to small businesses
The General Services Administration today laid out new goals for tapping small businesses on large contracts, starting with its $25 billion contract for largescale information technology support services.
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GSA awards $25 billion IT services pact
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service last week awarded its $25 billion information technology services and support contract to 10 vendors.
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Feds go on sked services buying spree
Agencies swarmed to the Federal Supply Service schedules to buy their information technology services in the first two months of fiscal 1999, purchasing almost half as much as they did during fiscal 1998. Agencies bought $519 million worth of IT services in October and November. In fiscal 1998, the
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GSA builds online sked search tool
Federal buyers now have a single point of contact for the most uptodate information on the more than 5,000 commercial vendors offering products and services through the General Services Administration schedule. This month GSA unveiled the Schedules ELibrary, a complete listing of schedule contra
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DOD to create software agreements departmentwide
A Defense Department group plans to develop in the next year a broad array of volumediscount software agreements for all services and DOD agencies. Under its Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI), DOD hopes to develop a new business process for acquiring software by focusing on DODwide enterprise
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Compaq revamps Prosignia products
Compaq Computer Corp. last week introduced a new line of notebooks, desktops and servers with a specialservices package aimed at small and mediumsize organizations. The Prosignia Desktop 300s come with an Intel Corp. Celeron or Pentium II processor as well as CDROM and Digital Video Disc drives.
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Comark surges to $50 million milestone
Acquisitions, mergers and upandcoming companies are causing a shift in the federal reseller market. One company making itself known is Comark Federal Systems, which this year is expected to pass the major milestone of $50 million in sales. Comark's sales have ballooned from $19.7 million in 1996
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Navy, Lotus reach agreement
The Navy has reached an agreement with Lotus Development Corp. to purchase up to 500,000 seats of its entire suite of groupware as part of the Navy plan to build a massive, worldwide intranet that would support everything from electronic commerce to battlefield communications. The Navy has agreed t
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Gaining speed
In the past year, the speed of the standard desktop system bought by federal agencies has more than doubled, paving the way for improved performance on applications such as 3D graphics and video teleconferencing for distance learning and training. Now, thanks to advances in PC chip manufacturing,
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Reforms spur IT cost analyses
Information technology reforms and the availability of contracts that allow agencies to outsource the desktop are forcing agencies to assess how much they spend on computer systems. Two recently awarded desktop outsourcing contracts Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN) and the General S
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