Government Micro Resources Inc. has proven to be a reliable small business, bringing in about $100 million from its government work each year. Although the company graduated from the SBA's 8(a) development program five years ago, it still qualified for small-business set-aside contracts. That will change Jan. 28, when a new procurement rule goes into effect that says small IT VARs must have 150 or fewer employees.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has chosen the National Provider Identifier as the standard ID for filing and processing all health care claims and other transactions.
Federal agencies and their contractors will soon get more guidance on how to do share-in-savings contracting, federal officials said today at a conference about the rarely used procurement method.
A group of security analysts who have evaluated Defense Department plans for an online voting pilot have recommended that the plan be scrapped because its security cannot be ensured. But DoD plans to move ahead anyway.
The General Accounting Office is expanding its investigation of federal employees who hold degrees from unaccredited schools to include the Defense Department.
The Education Department is considering the creation of a master list of accredited colleges and universities in the United States, as a way to protect prospective students and employers from diploma mills.
With its new plan to merge the services of six governmentwide acquisition contracts into the Alliant procurement, the General Services Administration is upping the ante on its effort to eliminate duplicative GWACs.
<b>Fiscal 2004 budget :</b> The last budget bill for 2004, affecting 11 civilian agencies and foreign operations, will likely pass Congress in February or March, upping spending levels on existing IT projects and jump-starting new ones.
Federal and state officials plan to meet Jan. 15 in Washington to brainstorm approaches for dealing with government employees who claim educational degrees from unaccredited institutions or diploma mills.
State governments this year will spend heavily on enterprise resource planning projects and financial management systems to help them slash costs and even generate revenue, according to industry officials.
Making predictions is easy. Getting them right is ... well, not so easy. Just ask the guys who predicted that the stock market would reach 36,000.But that doesn't mean you can't get a useful sense of directions and trends. For our annual look at the year ahead, the Washington Technology staff talked to experts in government and industry and found widespread agreement on several important issues.
Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman wants to increase homeland security spending by $16 billion over the Bush administration's plans. Among his proposals, the Connecticut senator said he would create an intelligence-sharing system to provide state and local police departments with instant access to the 58 federal terrorist watch lists.
