WorldCom Inc. will not be debarred from government contracting and is now free to pursue any government work, including the option year on one of its biggest contracts, FTS 2001, the GSA announced Wednesday.
With the New Year, Defense Department contractors will be required to mark items delivered to DoD with unique identifiers such as bar codes or radio frequency ID tags. Contractors will also be required to identify the unit cost of all hardware items delivered under a contract.
The Navy's eBusiness Operations Office this week selected $3.8 million worth of first-round projects for fiscal 2004, ranging from software to streamline evaluation to systems to improve data accessibility.
<font color="CC0000"> UPDATED </font>The General Accounting Office has sustained a Lockheed Martin Corp. protest of an IT services contract award, worth $860 million, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to EDS.
When <b>Bill Frederick</b> got access to training through GoLearn, the federal government's enterprisewide learning portal, the first course he took was time management. The National Weather Service meteorologist figured it would help him make time to take other courses -- and he was right.
Washington revolves around relationships. Knowing the right people and belonging to the right organizations are critical to getting business done. <b>Steve Charles</b>, executive vice president of immixGroup Inc., wants to join the Coalition for Government Procurement, a well-connected industry group representing companies that hold contract schedules with the General Services Administration. The coalition's close ties with GSA make it a key organization for schedule-holders such as immixGroup. But the coalition won't let immixGroup join, Charles said.
Agencies must limit contractual connections with companies that have been debarred, suspended or proposed for debarment from federal business, a Federal Register notice said today.
The federal government launched a Web site today that allows organizations to get information about all grant programs through a single, comprehensive site.
Congress is increasingly convinced that commercial software tools are adequate for the data mining and analysis requirements of fighting terrorism and protecting personal data from misuse.
The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration have jointly proposed changing the Federal Acquisition Regulation to overhaul the database that tracks companies excluded from federal procurements.<br>
The Homeland Security Department's border systems modernization is receiving renewed congressional scrutiny just as the agency is seeking proposals for the massive overhaul.
Language in the fiscal 2004 Transportation-Treasury spending bill that would have curtailed some new procedures for competition of federal jobs has been altered in an omnibus spending bill.
