GSA jump-starts share in savings

No schedule or multiple-award contract has ever been dedicated to share in savings ? until now. The General Services Administration last month awarded blanket purchase agreements to six companies to sell share-in-savings information technology projects to 19 federal agencies.

EDS wins $93M e-travel job from USDA

EDS Corp. of Plano, Texas, will provide employee travel services to the Agriculture Department under a task order worth about $93 million.

State and local e-gov spending to double by '08

The state and local market for e-government products and services will soon reverse its dramatic decline.

Cerenade to provide e-forms to State Department

Cerenade Inc., a developer of electronic forms management software, won a State Department contract to provide its Visual eForms software.

Recruitment One-Stop contract bidding reopened

The Office of Personnel Management will recompete the contract for the Recruitment One-Stop project.

Agencies show marked improvement on OMB scorecard

In the midyear evaluation released today, OMB awarded agencies 19 new green scores, including three in the e-government category.

Acquisition councils propose share-in-savings regulations

Proposed rule lays out the process for agencies to use the share-in-savings method for IT contracts.

GAO criticizes agency efforts to measure contract bundling

Federal agencies aren't adequately measuring the effects of contract bundling on small businesses, according to a General Accounting Office report published today.

Miami Beach taps Tyler for financial software

Tyler Technologies Inc. has won a $1.7 million contract from Miami Beach, Fla., to provide a full suite of integrated financial software.

HHS, Transportation pick Northrop Grumman for e-travel

E-Travel program expected to cut federal travel management costs in half over 10 years.

Hanlon on NMCI: 'EDS was not prepared'

Marine leader notes points of friction with the $8.82 billion Intranet contract.

Sun opens new government office

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the creation of a new global government division and introduced an innovative new pricing model for government agencies.

Procurement councils set rules for buying services

Policy clarifies the responsibilities of the ordering agency and the contracting agency.

Task force: procurement rules impede responder funds

Task force makes recommendations to improve the flow of funding to first responders.

Titan shareholders OK takeover

Titan Corp.'s shareholders this month overwhelmingly approved a $2.2 billion takeover bid by Lockheed Martin Corp., but some analysts said Lockheed Martin might lower its offering price a second time to complete the deal.

A winning secret: distributor dynamics

When Daly Computers Inc. was preparing to bid on Virginia's statewide computer and peripherals contracts, it called one of its distributors, Ingram Micro Inc., for help -- not that it was expecting much. "When we used to go to our distributors for help, they would usually just throw a list of products at us," said company president <b>Ryan Yu</b>. Not this time.

Out-of-scope contracts run out of time

Federal agencies may soon get new restrictions on how they buy products and services as part of a crackdown against out-of-scope contracting.

Northrop Grumman wins first E-Travel task order

Northrop Grumman Corp. won the first E-Travel task order for an online travel management service.