A Defense Department acquisition panel has concluded that the department has no reliable method of determining what items need to be procured for its programs, what they will cost, when they will be delivered or how they will perform.
The General Services Administration took an important step toward getting the blanket purchase agreement in place by May 2006 for agencies to buy approved products and services to meet Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
The loss of key officers won't impede the restructuring of the General Services Administration's acquisition operations, according to G. Martin Wagner, associate administrator for GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy and soon-to-be acting Federal Acquisition Service commissioner.
The Veterans Affairs Department seeks a provider for nationwide online travel services as an alternative to the integrated electronic travel system used by VA under the General Services Administration eTravel initiative.
Just in case there's a question in anyone's mind that those convoluted, multipage intellectual property and data rights clauses in government contracts mean what they say, the U.S. Court of Federal Claim last month provided one contractor with a painful lesson that they do.
The Homeland Security Department earlier this year experienced a significant setback to its information-sharing mission in the breakup of its partnership with a major law enforcement intelligence network.
After the incremental but growing success of the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program, the Office of Management and Budget is expanding the concept to IT hardware.
Marty Wagner is on deck to replace Barbara Shelton and become acting commissioner of the General Services Administration's new Federal Acquisition Service.
The Idaho Transportation Department wants Ciber Inc. to help it build an enterprise architecture strong enough to support new technology systems and applications that are part of a departmentwide transformation initiative.
The Labor Department is looking for offers to host Web sites and components related to its GovBenefits program, an online portal that gives citizens access to government benefit eligibility information.
The FBI experienced a major setback in its failure to deploy the long-awaited Virtual Case File IT system, but it is performing better in its management of Sentinel, which is the successor system, according to a new report from the Justice Department's Inspector General.
In its first months of operation, an Education Department effort that gives students and parents a way to apply for federal student aid online attracted 35,000 applications.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a draft statement of work for requirements for its Chronic Care Improvement Information Management System.
