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IT community calls draft GSA standard 'impossible' to meet
Calling it an 'impossible' standard to meet, the information technology community is seeking a compromise with government groups that would relieve it from proposed contract language requiring vendors to guarantee "faultfree" processing of data affected by the Year 2000 date change. At issue are
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Contractors automate to manage DEIS II
Faced with managing mammoth teams and multiple task orders, Defense Enterprise Integration Services II contractors are taking a dose of their own medicine. Many of the contractors working on the $3 billion Defense Information Systems Agency program have developed systems to help manage task orders,
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DEIS II task-order procedures could move governmentwide
The Defense Information Systems Agency has crafted a set of procedures for competing task orders under multipleaward contracts that the agency will use on the newly awarded DEIS II program and that also could be applied to governmentwide bestpractices guidelines that are being compiled. DISA's "
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MicroAge awarded GSA schedule pact
MicroAge late last month was awarded its first General Services Administration Schedule B/C pact. The Torrance, Calif.based company is offering its own line of Patriot Computers, which are builttoorder PCs and notebooks. Other Companies' Wares Available The company also is offering products on i
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Cordant, DynCorp up for sale
Consolidation intensified last week in the federal information technology market with Cordant Inc. and DynCorp seeking buyers. Cordant, a Reston, Va., integrator, reportedly has been conducting an auction, using the approach employed by PRC in its recent sale. Sources familiar with the discussions
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Deja vu - $3B DEIS II
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week awarded the fiveyear, $3 billion DEIS II program, which could become the largest systems integration contract ever, to the same six prime contractors who held the original Defense Enterprise Integration Services pact. The primes BDM Federal Inc.,
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Supermini hits $500M mark
Litton/PRC Inc. has reached the $500 million mark in orders on its governmentwide Supermini contract, company officials reported last week. The company is also updating the contract with new servers and PCs. The company reached the halfbilliondollar milestone about three and a half years into the
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Informix joins with Netscape to build workgroup database
Informix Software Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp. last week announced a workgroup database solution targeting intranet applications. The Informix Workgroup Solution consists of Informix intranetenabled database technology, Netscape's FastTrack Server World Wide Web server software and Netsc
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DISA to offer four contracts totaling $610 million
The Defense Information Systems Agency is expected to release the final request late this week for proposals for a $610 milliondollar, multipleaward services contract for DISA's engineering organization. DISA's Joint Interoperability & Engineering Organization (JIEO) System Engineering Support Se
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Symantec returns to GSA schedule
After a threeyear hiatus, Symantec Corp. has placed its products back on the General Services Administration's Schedule B/C, the company announced today. The Cupertino, Calif., company's entire product line is now available on the 19961999 schedule. ASAP Software Express, Government Technology Se
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BDM broadens IT push
BDM International Inc. is broadening its pursuit of federal information technology opportunities and is eyeing an expansion into valueadded product sales. The McLean, Va.based integrator has made growth in the commercial, state and local government, and international markets a strategic thrust. B
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DOJ opinion may rewrite GPO charter
A recent Justice Department opinion undermines the Government Printing Office's traditional charter to handle printing for the executive branch and appears to open the door for federal agencies to buy printing on their own. Walter Dellinger, assistant attorney general, wrote in a May 31 memorandum
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GAO confirms DISA's right to choose procurement path
A General Accounting Office protest decision, recently made public, upholds the Defense Information Systems Agency's right to choose a multiple acquisition strategy for the Defense Information Systems Network.
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Miltope wins $80M Army deal
Miltope Corp. has captured an estimated $80 million contract to supply up to 10,000 portable computers to the Army's Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment activity. TMDE's Soldier's Portable Online Repair Tool (SPORT) pact will provide the Army with mobile maintenance systems. The SPORT machi
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The Federal Integrator Survey
The federal budget impasse is over, and the government shutdown is history, but integrators are still dealing with the effects of both crises. About twothirds of the respondents to Federal Integrator's third annual prime contractor survey reported that the budget situation is having some impact on
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EDS opens Internet mall to serve federal buyers
Electronic Data Systems Corp. today formally opened an Internetbased "mall" that allows federal customers to shop the company's productoriented contracts.
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GRCI wins $30M National Guard Bureau contract
GRC International Inc. said last week that it has been selected by the National Guard Bureau for a contract worth up to $30 million. Under the pact, GRCI will support the National Guard Bureau, the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard throughout the United States, the Virgin Islands and P
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Industry, IT execs leave long-held posts
A number of industry and agency information technology executives recently announced departures from longheld positions. William Hoover was named executive vice president of systems integrator BDM International Inc. and president and chief executive officer of BDM Federal Inc. He had been presiden
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GE Capital to buy AmeriData parent
GE Capital Services was expected late last week to make a cashtender offer for the parent company of AmeriData Federal Systems, the secondranked General Services Administration schedule reseller. GE Capital Services, a Stamford, Conn.based subsidiary of General Electric Co., announced last Monda
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SRA launches Internet, intranet search products
SRA International Inc. last month unveiled a pair of products designed to ease information searches on the Internet or within corporate intranets. SRA's Intermezzo is a search tool that allows users to locate information in multiple databases using multiple search engines. The company's NetOwl sear
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