Perot Systems Corp. has been awarded a nine-month contract from the Education Department to build a data warehouse and develop a business intelligence solution.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a $49.9 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to provide systems engineering to users of technologies for secure messaging systems.
ManTech International Corp. has won a five-year, $34.9 million contract from the Naval Sea System Command to help design and develop military products for the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Indian Head Division.
Gateway Inc. has received more than $20 million in new federal contracts with the Social Security Administration and the Interior and Defense departments' Dependents Schools for computer products and integration services.
The most recent example was this summer. GSA insisted, under threat of termination, on major price reductions for Sun Microsystems Inc. products across multiple schedule contracts. But other audits are quietly working through the discovery and settlement process, which involves an analysis of every order and price a company charged for goods and services to federal and nonfederal customers.
Federal procurement officials have published a proposed rule that authorizes time-and-materials and labor-hour contracts for commercial services. The rule implements amendments to the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act and benefits service contractors by shifting most of the risk to the government.
The Air Force's Air Combat Command wants vendors to perform operations and maintenance services for the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle MQ-1 program at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada and various locations worldwide.
Alion Science and Technology Corp., McLean, Va., won a $3.9 million contract from the Defense Department to support DOD's training and transformation initiative, helping to develop and implement interagency tasks and update and revise Transformation Training plans and department policies.
Alion Science and Technology Corp., McLean, Va., won a $3.9 million contract from the Defense Department to support DOD's training and transformation initiative, helping to develop and implement interagency tasks and update and revise Transformation Training plans and department policies.
Reveal Imaging Technologies Inc. has won an order from the Transportation Security Administration for its automated explosive detection systems for checked baggage.
InfoReliance Corp. has been awarded a GSA contract for a database that will gather information about each agency's public-private competitions of inherently commercial federal jobs, and agencies' workforce inventories of which positions are considered commercial.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has chosen eight vendors to to analyze data to reveal problems that may indicate fraud or abuse in the new prescription drug benefit.
Dynamics Research Corp. won a $4.4 million contract with the Naval Surface Warfare Center to provide functional and technical support for the software suite and systems that compose the Naval Sea Systems Command corporate financial systems.
