The National Archives and Records Administration late last week released the final solicitation for its Electronic Records Archive project. The potential eight-year, performance-based contract could be worth about $122 million, industry sources said.
Saying it no longer has enough employees to safeguard contractors' confidential information, NASA officials today proposed changes meant to strengthen protection of contractors' proprietary data when it must be disclosed to non-NASA support workers.
The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration have jointly proposed changing the Federal Acquisition Regulation to overhaul the database that tracks companies excluded from federal procurements.<br>
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency has changed its to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a name the government says reflects its broader mission.<br>
PEC Solutions Inc. has won a five-year, $9 million contract from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to migrate the federal judiciary's national information technology infrastructure to Linux-Intel platform, the company announced today.
State and local governments will spend heavily on e-procurement over the next five years as the approach continues to gain in popularity, according to a new study. Spending on these systems will grow to $1.1 billion by 2008.
An enterprise center within the Veterans Affairs Department is starting a franchise program to provide IT acquisition services to other federal agencies.
After much discussion with agencies and vendors, the General Services Administration is refocusing its enterprise software licensing program to be more flexible and better coordinated within the government. Emory Miller, GSA's project director, said the program, known as SmartBuy, will look at a variety of business models, including a tiered methodology, quantity discounts and a model that asks vendors to lower their prices if agencies buy a suite of software products.
President Bush yesterday announced his intentions to nominate David Safavian to become the next administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
The federal government should move quickly to set interoperability standards so that emergency communications and public safety agencies can coordinate effective responses to terrorist attacks and disasters, according to research released this week.
After reports that WorldCom Inc. has received more than $100 million in federal orders since it was suspended almost three months ago, a senator wants agencies to explain why they granted waivers.
Federal information technology contracting opportunities include about $43 billion in "hidden" spending on wireless components, according a market research firm.
The Homeland Security Department released the request for information this week for Project Safecom, the initiative to connect wireless first-responder systems across federal, state and local agencies.
HERSHEY, Pa. ? About two years ago, staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs didn't have the information they needed, when they needed it. But they did have information they didn't want.
