Federal IT spending through the General Services Administration's multiple award schedule contracts for products and services declined in 2005 for the first time in 10 years, according to a new report issued by Input Inc.
Here are a few of the buying trends that are having a big impact on the world of federal IT procurement, according to Howard Nevin, vice president for corporate development and technology at Highland Technology Services Inc.
Female entrepreneurs looking to start or grow a business now have a new planning tool?MY BIZ for Women, an online resource from the Small Business Administration that provides business information and assistance just for women.
The pilot contracts are led by Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, Calif.; Brigham and Women's Hospital of Boston; SureScripts; and Achieve Healthcare Technologies in Eden Prairie, Minn.
The General Services Administration's electronic-bidding portal has been down since Jan. 11 due to a security flaw that allowed users of the system to change others' bids once they were logged onto the site.
Washington Technology kicks off its 20th anniversary year not with a look back, but with a look forward. We've distilled the sea of policy issues, technology trends and emerging markets to the 20 that are ? or should be ? top of mind for systems integrators, IT services companies and resellers in the government market.
The General Services Administration will shut down its GSA Preferred IT tracking system after audits found the program did not perform as well as the system it replaced.
Accela Inc. has won a 10-year, $3 million contract with Sacramento County, Calif., to deliver a Web-based system to support land management activities.
FedBid Inc. of Vienna, Va., has won a five-year contract from the General Services Administration to provide online reverse auction services for the federal government.
House Government Reform Committee chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) threatens to kill funding next year for the controversial Treasury Communications Enterprise departmentwide contract.
The Industry Advisory Council has dropped e-government from the name of one of its shared interest groups and adjusted the name of its procurement group to reflect changes in the market.
A Defense Department acquisition panel has concluded that the department has no reliable method of determining what items need to be procured for its programs, what they will cost, when they will be delivered or how they will perform.
The loss of key officers won't impede the restructuring of the General Services Administration's acquisition operations, according to G. Martin Wagner, associate administrator for GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy and soon-to-be acting Federal Acquisition Service commissioner.
The Veterans Affairs Department seeks a provider for nationwide online travel services as an alternative to the integrated electronic travel system used by VA under the General Services Administration eTravel initiative.
After the incremental but growing success of the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program, the Office of Management and Budget is expanding the concept to IT hardware.
