The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Accenture announced March 13 that they will dissolve an outsourcing contract that called for Accenture to operate an integrated eligibility determination system for state health and welfare programs.
A contracting oversight bill holds to its original intent of limiting noncompetitive and sole-source contracts and requiring disclosure of justifications for such contracts after two House committees have looked at it.
A group of industry associations has reiterated its concerns that several draft recommendations from the Acquisition Advisory Panel would cause delays in acquisition and chill innovation in government services.
When I saw the news that GTSI Corp. and World Wide Technology Inc. had won the small-business contracts under the Army's Information Technology Solutions Enterprise 2 Hardware program, I had to scratch my head.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman's latest government contracting legislation includes several provisions that are unnecessary and may be detrimental, according ITAA and others.
DHS plans to use its centralized Eagle contracting vehicle to hire contractors for two projects intended to consolidate several LANs and provide IT support for the program management office that will oversee the job.
