Harris Corp. won a six-month, $5.7 million contract extension from the Federal Aviation Administration to provide additional services for the Weather and Radar Processor program. The extension raises the value of the work to $131 million since 1996.
The General Services Administration today released two draft requests for proposals for its $10 billion Networx telecommunications governmentwide acquisition contract.
Stanley Associates Inc. of Alexandria, Va., won a $10.3 million contract from the Army Field Support Command to provide software support for two logistics systems that help the Army deploy weapons and equipment to the battlefield.
Qwest Communications International Inc. has won a contract estimated at $37.5 million to upgrade the Energy Department's research communications network. The award expands upon a seven-year, $50 million contract to provide network connectivity for the Energy Sciences Network.
Mind Over Machines Inc. has won a five-year, $15 million contract with the National Institutes of Health to provide information technology support services, the company announced today.
The Army is developing requirements for the IT Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contract and expects to release a request for information next month on the billion-dollar program.
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font color> Two large companies and two small businesses will vie for $610 million worth of consulting, engineering and technical services with the Air Force Space Command over the next five years.
The General Services Administration is looking for a contractor to provide and maintain always-on, high-speed, digital Internet access service and hardware for remote Federal Occupational Health offices.
Federal agencies talk "best value," but go with lowest price when they actually buy -- so say the many technology vendors voicing this complaint to me recently. Companies that pride themselves on delivering innovative products, services and solutions are frustrated by contracting officers who don't differentiate between one offering and another, except by price.
The Education Department's Office of Migrant Education has tapped PEC Solutions Inc. of Fairfax, Va., to help create a system for states to share information about children of migrant workers.
Last summer, the federal court of appeals ruled that vendor line item prices and a contractor's option-year pricing were confidential information and that they could be withheld under the Freedom of Information Act, because their release was likely to cause substantial harm to a contractor's competitive position.
The Air Force seeks information for a treasury management system solution. The in-house banking solution will provide user-defined business rules and features for account reporting and reconciliation. Some of these functions include balance and detail reporting, cash concentration, check issue and pay reconciliation, bank and virtual account reconciliation, worksheet modeling and Automated Clearing House fund and wire transfers. The system must run on the Windows 2000 server operating system.
The good news for industry is that 83 percent of the fiscal 2005 federal budget for information technology, or $50.5 billion, will go to government contractors.
Four companies: bd Systems Inc., Torrance, Calif.; Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va.; Scitor Corp., Colorado Springs, Colo.; and SI International Inc., Reston, Va.; won the right to compete for task orders worth $610 million to provide advisory and assistance services and engineering and technical assistance to the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
Four companies: bd Systems Inc., Torrance, Calif.; Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va.; Scitor Corp., Colorado Springs, Colo.; and SI International Inc., Reston, Va.; won the right to compete for task orders worth $610 million to provide advisory and assistance services and engineering and technical assistance to the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to issue a request for proposals in early November to update and maintain its medical claims processing system for Medicare Part B, which covers physician care, durable medical equipment and other outpatient services.
The Health and Human Services Department this month announced $139 million in grants and contracts to promote the use of health IT and take the department a step closer to electronic health records for all Americans.
