The Montgomery County, Md., Office of Procurement wants to conduct a requirements study for enterprise resource planning. An RFP is expected in April. The requirements study will include evaluation, recommendation and possible implementation of an ERP system.
The roster of players might be the same as last year's, but it isn't business as usual in the state and local government market. Many systems integrators, even those holding strong positions, are pushing into new lines of business as a way to enlarge their slice of the state and local pie.
Anteon International Corp. has won a $350 million contract from the Army to design and build live-training ranges that digitally gather and record data on the training for quick feedback and reviews.
Ever since Congress created the Trade Agreements Act exemption to the Buy American Act, the U.S. Trade Representative has been able to use the purchasing power of the federal government as a lever in free trade negotiations.
Recently, the Small Business Administration issued a final rule to amend its small-business size regulations. Buried in this rule is a potentially confusing requirement for small businesses to provide updated size certifications following certain types of mergers or acquisitions.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking for a contractor to design and install a dense-wave-division, multiplexed, optical transport network that will allow delivery of IT services over a broadband gigabit optical network.
The Veterans Affairs Department wants procurement software for contract management administration. The contractor must provide software through an Internet connection, and supply maintenance and training. The vendor also must set up a repository for storing contracts and related correspondence as image and data files. The work will be done at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Miami.
The Marine Corps Systems Command has selected N.E.T. Federal's Promina multiservice access and Shout900 IP telephony platforms for deployment in the Joint Enhanced Core Communication System.
CDW Government Inc., Herndon, Va., won a one-year contract from the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command to provide Cingular and T-Mobile wireless devices. The contract has no ceiling, but individual orders cannot be for more than $5 million.
Although the Homeland Security Department has awarded more than $560 million for 1,200 projects to increase seaport security nationwide, the current grants process "compromises the program's ability to direct resources toward the nation's highest priorities," according to a new inspector general audit.
The General Services Administration this spring will release a $5 billion, 10-year governmentwide acquisition contract for service-disabled veteran-owned IT small businesses.
After a two-and-a-half-year probe, the General Services Administration declined to debar Qwest Communications International Inc. of Denver from competing for federal government work.
Investors in defense and federal IT companies have become more cautious about the growth potential for companies, mainly because of slowing growth rates in U.S. defense budgets and the constraining impact of federal government deficits.
This spring, FBI's leadership will decide whether to scrap the much maligned Virtual Case File System or allow its contractor, Science Applications International Corp., to continue developing the system.
Leaders of the House Government Reform Committee want GAO to review agency awards of sole-source small business contracts to Alaska Native Corporations.
EDS Corp. has won its largest contract since 2002, but controversy may be brewing among British political conservatives critical of EDS' past performance with IT systems.
