The Federal Technology Service's client support centers in three regions breached federal procurement laws over the last two years, according to the General Services Administration's inspector general.
The chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has asked the Education Department to compile a master list of accredited colleges and universities, and make it available on the Web for prospective students and employers.
Shortly after Ken Dahlberg was named chief executive officer of Science Applications International Corp. in November, he received calls from the Secretary of the Navy, the National Security Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and other federal agencies with which the company has done business.
	The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Keyport is conducting market research to determine industry interest and capability to develop an anti-submarine and undersea warfare test information management system. The system will provide information management, data processing and instrumentation resources. Details can be found on fedbizopps.gov, solicitation no. N0025304Q0057. Responses are due by Feb. 2.
NASA Langley Research Center seeks vendors to support its technology transfer systems. Responsibilities include operating and maintaining systems configurations, defining and implementing revised configurations to comply with NASA and federal enterprise architectures, and initiating improvements. The procurement is estimated at about $2 million a year and may be a small business set-aside contract. For more information, see fedbizopps.gov, solicitation no. SS-NTTS-L30. Responses are due by Feb. 6.
	The 48th Fighter Wing in the United Kingdom wants to create an intranet portal for military personnel, with a separate portal for family members. The intent of the project is to improve operations, increase and meet information assurance requirements and enhance the quality of life for wing members, dependents and civilians by giving them more access to information. Details are at fedbizopps.gov, solicitation no. FA5587-04-R-0006.
	The Drug Enforcement Administration wants a vendor for Web architecture engineering, design and support services, infrastructure product assessments and integration and documentation of the agency's Firebird platform. The contract is for one year with four one-year options. The solicitation will be issued about Jan. 26, and can be found at www.dea.gov. Click on "Acquisitions & Contracts," then "Open Solicitations." Other details can be found on fedbiz<BR>
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.
