Get it right or get out -- that's the message to vendors from GSA's Federal Technology Service on the upcoming $150 billion Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract.
Government Micro Resources Inc. has proven to be a reliable small business, bringing in about $100 million from its government work each year. Although the company graduated from the SBA's 8(a) development program five years ago, it still qualified for small-business set-aside contracts. That will change Jan. 28, when a new procurement rule goes into effect that says small IT VARs must have 150 or fewer employees.
State governments this year will spend heavily on enterprise resource planning projects and financial management systems to help them slash costs and even generate revenue, according to industry officials.
The Navy's eBusiness Operations Office this week selected $3.8 million worth of first-round projects for fiscal 2004, ranging from software to streamline evaluation to systems to improve data accessibility.
When <b>Bill Frederick</b> got access to training through GoLearn, the federal government's enterprisewide learning portal, the first course he took was time management. The National Weather Service meteorologist figured it would help him make time to take other courses -- and he was right.
Agencies must limit contractual connections with companies that have been debarred, suspended or proposed for debarment from federal business, a Federal Register notice said today.
The federal government launched a Web site today that allows organizations to get information about all grant programs through a single, comprehensive site.
In October, the Agriculture Department issued a report on its competitive sourcing program, from which one could infer that competition at DoA is, indeed, DOA.
State and local governments will spend heavily on e-procurement over the next five years as the approach continues to gain in popularity, according to a new study. Spending on these systems will grow to $1.1 billion by 2008.
