The National Association of State CIOs study reported a strong trend toward "states consolidating their computing assets into raised-floor, secured, centralized data center facilities."
DKW Communications Inc. will automate information systems and communications services for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command's Systems Center.
Instead of awarding a sole-source contract to Eagle Eye for the first phase of the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act, GSA issued an RFP for data and software that would list grant and contract award info from fiscal 2000-07. The small-business set-aside contract is for 19 months.
DC Capital Partners LLC plans to create a new company catering to the information technology needs of federal agencies by integrating three businesses it has acquired.
A test of GSA's program to speed the award process for schedule contracts is moving into its second phase, as agency officials see successes and the potential for more.
In its first score cards, SBA handed out 12 red scores, which show that agencies did not reach their annual small-business goals for 2006. There were five yellows and seven green scores.
Q2Administrators LLC has won a contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to continue administering the appeals process for Medicare fee-for-service claim denials.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has acquired 3Dsolve Inc., which will strengthen its initiatives in the rapidly growing training and simulation market, according to a Lockheed official.
Many industry analysts and investors have expressed concern about the outlook for federal services companies. They seem to believe that the industry's best years are in the rearview mirror.
When Congress returns Sept. 5, the government's new fiscal year will be less than a month away and none of the fiscal 2008 appropriations bills will have been passed into law.
