Alaska Native corporations have moved aggressively to take advantage of Small Business Administration regulations that allow them to land no-bid government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a draft report from the Government Accountability Office.
Other draft items for ITES-2H will be released over the next few days, with the final RFP package coming in about a week, according to an Army official.
The long-awaited request for proposals for Secure Border Initiative-Net was released today by the Homeland Security Department, which is calling the project the "most comprehensive effort in the nation's history" to gain control of the borders.
The Senate wants interested vendors to detail whether they can provide, install and maintain thousands of computers and servers both on Capitol Hill and throughout the country.
Affiliated Computer Services won a five-year, $76 million contract from the New Jersey Transit agency to refresh the technology that runs its fare collection system.
Maximus Inc. won a contract that may be worth as much as $6 million from the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to conduct outreach and education for child care within the state.
The Environmental Protection Agency will rely on Alion Science and Technology Corp. for a variety of services to support the operations of the agency's environmental services assistance team for Region 7.
ManTech International Corp. won a five-year $5.4 million follow-on contract from the Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet and Industrial Supply Center to provide logistics support services and products.
The pace of federal IT and defense mergers and acquisitions in the first quarter of 2006, based on deal announcements, was in line with those of 2005. However, a comparison of the first quarter of 2006 with that of 2005 reflects significant changes in the mix of transactions.
MTC Technologies Inc. won task orders worth more than $18 million during the first quarter of the year from the Air Force Materiel Command in support of various weapon systems programs.
Several of the largest IT systems integrators in the United States are taking on one of the biggest federal technology projects of the decade: creating Secure Border Initiative-Net, an electronic surveillance system that will cover the U.S. -Mexico border?all 2,000 miles of it.
Public safety and utility workers in Newton County, Ga., will count on a new radio system being implemented by M/A-Com for better communications in emergencies and day-to-day activities.
The State Department is planning a procurement to support issuing identity cards to citizens that they will be able to use in lieu of passports when they enter the country to meet pending requirements that all border crossers bring suitable documents.
San Francisco has selected a team headed by EarthLink Inc. and Google Inc. to build a citywide WiFi network that is expected to provide free and low-cost Internet access for the city.
CAE USA Inc. won a $17.8 million contract from the Army to develop the common database architecture for simulation-based training exercises and establish database production facilities.
Securityhunter Inc., a Baltimore company that installs and maintains electronic security countermeasures, will assess Agriculture Department facilities under a $1.8 million contract.
