Small businesses racked up a record $93.3 billion in federal prime contracts in fiscal 2008, an increase of almost $10 billion from 2007, according to the SBA.
Federal health officials are distributing $1.2 billion in economic stimulus law funding to state agencies and nonprofits to advance adoption of health information technology.
The Veterans Affairs Department is struggling with a 26-percent vacancy rate in its acquisition staff, Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould said today as he outlined a new "corporate" approach to the buying process.
Microsoft's loss in a patent dispute with Toronto-based i4i LP means that it will have to stop selling Microsoft Word in U.S. markets. The issue concerns the use of "custom XML" in Word in the Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suites.
Lt. Gen. Carroll Pollett, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, reiterated the importance of the contract workforce to DISA at an industry presentation Aug. 7, especially, he said, as the agency faces moving its staff to Fort Meade next year.
The National Institutes of Health has released a sources sought notice and draft request for proposals for the third generation of its Chief Information Office--Solutions and Partners contract.
