GSA leader's zero footprint

Administrator Martha Johnson hit a unique mark of making little, or maybe no, impact on her environment.

CGI hires energy management expert for GSA account

CGI Federal Inc. has hired Billy Mays, a global energy management, sustainability and high-performance buildings expert, to help direct the government contractor’s GSA account.

GAO upholds cancellation of $2.6B Northrop DHS campus contract

The Government Accountability Office denies a protest from Northrop Grumman of what the company believed was an "unreasonable" termination of its contract.

GSA policy chief takes on acquisition regulations

Acquisition officials are looking closely at three areas of the procurement process that must be fixed to create a faster, smoother system.

Watchdog group faults Obama decision to withdraw transparency proposal

The Obama administration withdrew a proposal to require that contracts, as well as task and delivery orders, be posted online.

Many federal blogs wither from neglect

Our Dying Blog List highlights those in critical condition. Help us add to it.

Former GSA assistant commissioner rejoins former company

Ed O'Hare rejoins Dynanet Corp. with a goal of helping the company's transition out of the 8(a) small business program.

New GSA deputy CIO is on the job

Hashmi is leaving his job as deputy CIO for D.C.'s government to become deputy to Casey Coleman, CIO at the General Services Administration.

Brown-Dixon goes from GSA to SBA

A small-business guru and director of small business takes talents to SBA

Higginbottom picked as deputy director at OMB

More executive changes: Heather Higginbottom to be named deputy director at OMB, and GSA's Teresa Nasif moves to head senior executive service initiatives.

GSA's acquisition center reorganizing for new year

Joe Jeu, assistant commissioner for General Supplies and Services at GSA, will be leaving the agency, and other personnel changes are also underway.

Hughes to provide government with managed broadband services

Hughes Network Systems believes that it can use its commercial satellite and DSL technologies to be a player in the federal broadband space.

GSA's Google Apps award raises Microsoft’s hackles

Microsoft Corp. complains that GSA amended a request for proposals that resulted in Unisys Corp. winning a $6.7 million contract to create a cloud-based e-mail system using Google Apps. What ticked off the software giant?

Unisys brings Google Apps to GSA

Unisys Corp. has won a General Services Administration contract worth $6.7 million to create a secure, cloud-based e-mail and collaboration platform for the agency.

Are feds ho-hum about pay freeze?

Several employees from the General Services Administration didn't really complain about losing out on plenty of money over the next two years.

Cloud vendors get $77M opportunity from GSA

Eleven contractors get the green light from the General Services Administration to provide federal, state, local and tribal governments with cloud storage, virtual machines and Web hosting services.

Officials recognize breakthroughs in bulk buying

Agencies, acting differently and under new pressures, are reconsidering strategic sourcing's benefits.

Lockheed, General Dynamics protest $2.6B DHS award

Rivals want the General Services Administration and Homeland Security Department to rethink their decision to award Northrop Grumman the contract to build the infrastructure for the new DHS headquarters campus.

This just in from the 'Department of Redundancy Reduction Department'

GSA's Gwynne Kostin offered a humorous take on efforts to improve federal workforce productivity during the FedScoop FedTalks 2010 conference.

CGI to boost capabilities of GSA public info website

CGI Federal Inc. will provide dataset hosting and other IT services to the General Services Administration under a five-year blanket purchase agreement with a ceiling of up to $46 million.