The House Government Reform Committee is investigating whether the special regulations giving Alaska Native corporations an edge in federal contracting are benefiting the government or Alaska natives.
Two years ago, Congress gave a new IT contracting vehicle a boost by including it in the E-Government Act of 2002. Share-in-savings contracts were supposed to revolutionize government IT procurements by unleashing contractor creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
The Bush administration's dramatic boost in IT spending at the Homeland Security department may be a signal that the sprawling, two-year-old department is ready to consolidate some of its major programs and systems.
If you're a government contractor, you might want to consider what your office design conveys to your clients, according to Joseph Boggs of Boggs & Partners Architects Inc. of Annapolis, Md.
By Joseph Boggs, Partners Architects Inc. and Lead design architect at Boggs
Source: CDW-G Inc., based on a survey of government and industry executives attending the Information Processing Interagency Conference in early March in Orlando, Fla.
Congress is considering giving the Homeland Security Department secretary authority to loosen privacy regulations with an eye to creating a national identification card, a move the DHS privacy chief opposes.
The General Services Administration is combing the Federal Supply Service's IT schedule for smart-card vendors whose products and services meet a new governmentwide standard.
The State Department and the Government Printing Office in the next few weeks will decide which and how many companies will provide electronic passports for U.S. citizens.
The Homeland Security Department has spent $1 billion on the Automated Commercial Environment, but delays and defects have muddled its deployment, a new Government Accountability Office report said.
Criticism of the General Services Administration's planning for the Networx telecommunications contract could force the agency to delay the awards beyond their April 2006 schedule.
The Department of Homeland Security's plan to combine nine major screening programs under one office makes sense on paper, but it's got a lot of contractors worried about what it means for programs.
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED</font color> The Government Accountability Office has sustained protests filed by three companies against the Treasury Department's award of the $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract to AT&T.
The State Department and the Government Printing Office are in the final stages of determining which and how many companies will provide electronic passports for Americans.
The Florida Department of Children and Families is seeking vendors to provide rapid application-development capabilities, data integration and Web-based applications for an alternate development environment. An RFP is expected in April.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission wants a vendor to provide hardware maintenance support for department-owned and managed equipment. The RFP is expected in the next few months.
