Don't gamble with success

Outsourcing, customer relationships and people are the best bets for 2007.

Ring in the New Year with revised T&M payment rules

Long-awaited rules affecting time-and-materials contracting go into effect Feb. 12. Where the procuring agency makes appropriate findings, the rules will allow use of T&M contracts for any type of service procured as a commercial item.

Federal IT consolidation spills over into 2007

Senior executives and owners of federal IT services companies should pay close attention to a changing environment that provides both opportunities and uncertainties in 2007.

Contract roundup

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Bids & proposals

The Defense Department's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program is looking for demonstration projects for new green technologies.

Welcome to the new WT

In your hands, you are holding a year's worth of planning, discussions, debates and arguments. (A few tears are in there, too.)

Stanley engineers Navy C4I deal

Stanley Associates Inc. will provide systems to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center designed to consolidate command, control and intelligence functions.

DRC keeps Joint Forces scheduling system humming right along

Dynamics Research Corp. will continue supporting a system created to help the Joint Services Command manage and track operations and exercises of forces through a new contract.

Harris forms Postal Service team

Harris Corp. is teaming with staffing services firm Adecco Technical Services to chase what could be a more than $200 million contract with the U.S. Postal Service.

GSA to share costs with Treasury from dropped TCE contract

The day before the Treasury Department dropped its Treasury Communications Enterprise contract, the GSA and Treasury signed an agreement under which GSA would defend the cancellation of the controversial deal.

Contracting skirmishes foreshadow broader policy battle

GSA Administrator Lurita Doan expects heated debate to occur in Congress over the next few months about federal government contracting.

Advanced Technology Systems tapped by Nashville for police records management

Advanced Technology Systems Inc. will install an advanced records management system for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department through a new contract.

AT&T receives VA network contract

AT&T Inc. has been awarded an order from the Veterans Affairs Department to assist with the development of a single-backbone, multiprotocol label switching network.

BAE surfaces with Navy submarine weapon systems deal

BAE Systems will deliver system integration support for the weapon systems of the Navy's Trident II and nuclear-powered guided missile submarines through a new contract.

ACS to manage Florida child health program

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. will administer Florida's child health insurance program through a five-year, $87.3 million contract.

GSA issues WITS 3 request for proposals

The General Services Administration has released the RFP for the Washington Interagency Telecommunications 3 contract, despite being on the verge of awarding the $20 billion Networx telecommunications contract.

Three companies file to recoup costs from doomed TCE contract

<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color>Three bidders have filed documents to recoup costs incurred from the Treasury Department's Treasury Communications Enterprise contract, a cancelled billion-dollar project.

Digital Angel to equip Army Corps with RFID

Digital Angel Corp. will supply the Army Corps of Engineers with passive integrated transponder technology for fish monitoring through a new $10 million contract.

Cingular wins $2B renewal from states alliance

The Western States Contracting Alliance has renewed a contract with Cingular Wireless LLC that the company expects will generate $2 billion in revenue over four years.

Justice calls on GTSI for hardware standardization

GTSI Corp. will supply workstation, desktop and laptop solutions that promote standardization and interoperability at the Justice Department's various offices.