The Defense Department isn't only worried about the General Services Administration's contracting practices; it wants to make sure all the other agencies its contracting officers do business with are getting it right.
Over the past 10 years, state and local governments have tried to reorient the delivery of public sector services around the citizen. Mantras such as "service to the citizen," "customer-centric government" and "government anytime, anywhere" heralded new objectives for important services.
A tax bill awaiting President George Bush's signature no longer includes a provision that would have prevented agencies from contracting work to companies performing the jobs overseas.
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 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.
First responder spending gradually is shifting from emergency response to recovery operations, an industry official told the Washington Technology Council.
By Nov. 12, agencies must send annual reports on their competitive sourcing efforts to the Office of Management and Budget. OMB will then report the results to Congress.
Since the first President George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, agencies and businesses have been under pressure and progressively tighter regulations to make goods, employment and services available to the disabled.
Thomas & Herbert Consulting LLC won six new contracts worth more than $20 million to provide a range of services to the Housing and Urban Development Department,including development of the department's enterprise architecture.
An alliance of major IT trade groups want the federal cybersecurity chief within the Homeland Security Department to hold the rank of assistant secretary.
The Senate yesterday approved a $32 billion fiscal 2005 appropriations bill for the Homeland Security Department. The House OK'd the bill Saturday. The bill now will be sent to the White House for President Bush's signature.
Despite no change in strong business trends among the federal IT service companies over the past few quarters, investors have been driving stocks higher in the past couple of months.
Although election officials agree that e-voting security measures need strengthening, no clear consensus has emerged over how it should be done, analysts and government officials said.
