The General Services Administration's chief acquisition officer wants customers to try out the agency's Federal Procurement Data System to see if improvements are needed.
Annual spending through the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule contracts for IT products and services will decline in fiscal 2006, according to a report from Input Inc.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will fund states a total of $150 million in 2007 and 2008 to design ways, including IT, to transform their Medicaid systems to increase quality and efficiency of care.
The Task Force to Support Improved DOD Contracting and Stability Operations in Iraq will evaluate Defense business enterprise processes and systems in Iraq affecting contracting and other processes.
This is the second task order issued to EDS under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' $1.9 billion Enterprise Data Center contract, the hub of the CMS IT infrastructure modernization for the next decade.
Over the years, the Army Knowledge Online portal has evolved into what military leaders envisioned it would become: a single point where warfighters and their support networks could log in and access applications and services. But it had a serious flaw.
IBM Corp. will assist the province of Alberta, Canada, in deploying an electronic health records system under a contract worth $10 million over two years.
Computer Sciences Corp. received two contract extensions worth a total of $82 million for mainframe computer services from Australia's Federal Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and the Australian Electoral Commission.
State and local government IT executives said that price, service and response time are their most important criteria when making IT purchasing decisions, according to a recent survey.
A year ago, an IT critical infrastructure list circulating in Washington included the headquarters of Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Today, the list is more likely to include virtual assets such as networks that carry data to and from major power plants, government offices and Wall Street.
As the Veteran's Affairs Department undergoes a major process and systems transformation, the agency will buy up to $365 million worth of Microsoft software and services from MicroTech LLC.
Enterprise architecture, followed closely by information-sharing, are areas of federal government IT that present the most business opportunities during the next 12 to 18 months, according to a market survey of industry officials.
We've grown fond of the way the Internet has made some of life's most tedious and time-consuming transactions less onerous. We no longer have to register our vehicles, pay parking tickets or even file taxes in person. Just fill out a form online, press "send," and get back to whatever you were doing. Citizens who receive public assistance are pressing for the same kind of online access from human services agencies.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. won a five-year, $31.5 million contract from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to deploy a smart-card system.
Sun Microsystems Inc. will eliminate 4,000 to 5,000 jobs over the next six months, company officials said this week, as the enterprise computing business struggles to remain competitive and regain its profitability.
