The Indiana Department of Revenue wants data query and analysis tools and services to use with information stored in its return processing system. No date has been set for the RFP. The tools and services will let information stored in the returns processing system be accessed for queries, extracted for analytical purposes and used for "what if" analysis and data mining and for faster access to decision-making data.
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Service wants to deploy an enterprise invoice management system. An RFP is expected this month. The vendor would design, develop, implement and operate the system.
The Maryland Office of the Comptroller wants a company to manage a value-added network for electronic tax filing. A request for proposal is expected during the first quarter. The project would refresh technology used to transmit returns electronically and would integrate additional functions. The state wants a one-stop tax-filing portal.
The General Services Administration in late December established a one-time fee of $2,500 for vendors and the public to receive a direct, continuous feed from the new Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation via Web services.
The IRS wants a contractor to provide off-the-shelf, PC-based actuarial software and technical support for its large and midsize business division. The contractor will assist with audits of life insurance companies. Services will include annual software maintenance, technical support services, help-desk support, professional actuarial services and training. The contract will be for one year with four one-year optional renewal periods. The procurement is a small business set-aside. Responses are due by Jan. 21. Contact Nicolete Veno at nicolete.c.veno@irs.gov.
Is a protest of your latest big win inevitable? If it's a multiyear enterprise deal worth big bucks and for several years, the chances rise precipitously. And the chances of more such contracts drawing protests in the coming year seem like a safe bet.
A new cabling product can support 10 Gigabit Ethernet say developers of the technology from Systimax Solution, a subsidiary of CommScope Inc. with offices in North Carolina, Belgium and Brazil.
Using a Linux platform, 3PAR Inc. of Fremont, Calif., has created a flexible utility storage solution. The 3PAR InServ Storage Server is a modular, Linux-based server that enables it to scale centralized data environments. Key to the design is a passive, full-mesh backplane that unifies multiple system resources for simple administration and automatic load balancing.
RFID and wireless security technologies will get a big push in 2005, thanks to developments that likely will spur new investment and growth in both areas.
The House Rules Committee gave the new Homeland Security Committee oversight of most DHS activities, except for immigration policy, non-border enforcement and customs revenue.
The Justice Department's Inspector General Office has concluded that the FBI's Virtual Case File project, on which the bureau has spent almost $170 million since June 2001, won't succeed.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced proposed changes in committee chairmanships and memberships for the 109th Congress. The changes will be voted on by the Republican conference after the Jan. 20 inauguration.
The General Services Administration has hooked a big one for SmartBuy, its enterprise software licensing program. IBM Corp. software including Rational, Informix and DB2 are now available through the vehicle.
In the wake of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis last week, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Conrad Lautenbacher has renewed his call for a Global Ocean Observing System that could patch together many governments' stovepiped sensors.
The General Services Administration made it official yesterday, setting a one-time fee of $2,500 for vendors and the public to receive a direct, continuous feed from the new Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation via Web services.
About $2 billion in federal contracts were miscoded as going to small rather than large businesses in fiscal 2002, resulting in distorted procurement statistics, according to a new SBA report.
