In the regulatory fallout from Enron, WorldCom and other business scandals, owners and officers of privately held IT companies may find reason to be thankful they missed the booming initial public offering market.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, has introduced the Acquisition System Improvement Act, H.R. 4228, which would create an Acquisition Professional Exchange Program for the federal government and industry, among other things.
The Defense Department, which relies heavily on commercial satellite services to carry communications around the world, is drafting a plan to change the way it buys satellite services.
The government should consider providing centralized patch management services to help agencies protect their IT systems, according to a new General Accounting Office report.
	The General Services Administration will publish an advance notice of proposed rulemaking before year's end to get input on how to address the buying of services in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, according to David Drabkin, GSA's deputy associate administrator for acquisition policy. The rules in the FAR govern how federal agencies buy goods and services.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge recently approved the creation of an office within the agency to coordinate all screening efforts, said Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security at the Homeland Security Department.
The Homeland Security Department is moving forward on major contracts to build a human resources system and a financial management system for the agency.
The Interior Department's U.S. Geological Survey is seeking a vendor to participate in the design, implementation, maintenance and operation of several systems for its Advanced National Seismic System, which oversees the creation and operation of rapid post-earthquake information and response tools.
The Army Corps of Engineers in Baltimore needs architect-engineer services for two master planning contracts for Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. The contracts may be used by other government agencies within the Installation Management Agency's northeast region.
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry is looking for a contractor to provide software engineering consulting support and ongoing development for NATO's interoperability portal called NATO C3, for the international organization's Consultation, Command and Control Agency.
Titan Corp.'s shareholders this month overwhelmingly approved a $2.2 billion takeover bid by Lockheed Martin Corp., but some analysts said Lockheed Martin might lower its offering price a second time to complete the deal.
A House committee voted today to prevent Accenture Ltd. from holding the prime contract for the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visit system because it is a tax exile.
The Small Business Administration has launched a new Web site, www.Business.gov, a federal government information and services repository for small-business owners. 		The site provides information on:
Two and a half years ago, Ken Buck was glad to leave his job promoting share-in-savings contracting for the General Services Administration. He was frustrated that few agencies and contractors had tried the method, despite its authorization by law in 1996.
Contractors sometimes need to add supplies or services to their Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts to respond to an agency's request for quote. But when must these additions be done: By the time quotes are submitted or by the time the blanket purchase agreement or FSS order is issued?
The Army's Surface Deployment and Distribution Command is looking for vendors to provide a standard, mobile, lightweight, rapidly deployable, self-contained command, control, communications and computers system called a flyaway communications kit.
