Industry and government officials are responding with mixed feelings to the July 19 freeze on selected information technology infrastructure and modernization projects imposed by Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels Jr.
The state of Virginia is tweaking the funding model for its electronic procurement system to provide temporary relief to vendors that found paying both a subscription fee and a transaction fee to use the system was unduly burdensome, state officials said.
Information technology vendors are fuming over a Bush administration proposal to restrict the types of contracts available on the General Services Administration schedules.
The Business Software Alliance and the Information Technology Association of America are pushing for the creation of a cybersecurity agency as part of the proposed Department of Homeland Security.
Focus groups, polling and listening to online feedback: Those are some of the ways the Canadian government keeps its award-winning Web sites relevant and useful to its citizens and businesses.
The Bush administration is working on e-gov-related homeland security initiatives that will concentrate on architecture and on beginning pilot projects that can push information integration.
Government and information technology industry officials are anxiously awaiting a new federal procurement rule, to be issued June 26, that is meant to ensure adequate competition on Defense Department multiple-award contracts.
The Bush administration is working on e-gov-related homeland security initiatives that will concentrate on architecture and on beginning pilot projects that can push information integration. The architecture or foundation projects will look at the processes needed for sharing and analyzing information across agencies and between state, local and federal agencies, said Mark Forman of the Office of Management and Budget.
The White House intends to act quickly on recommendations by a high-level government panel that call for sweeping changes in conducting public-private competitions. But Congress could slow implementation of some of the planned reforms until it has a chance to review administration proposals and put its own stamp on the new rules.
In my Aug. 13, 2001, article on the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedule, I discussed the standards that the General Accounting Office and the GSA itself have established for conducting procurements based on FSS contracts, formally known as the Multiple Award Schedule.
Office of Management and Budget officials outlined plans for a new portal on which individuals can comment on proposed federal rules. In a May 3 memo to agency heads, OMB Director Mitch Daniels said the initiative will consolidate fragmented rulemaking efforts.
The Labor Department launched April 29 a new federal Web site, <a href="http://govbenefits.gov">GovBenefits.gov</a>, that brings together information from many agencies about federal benefits programs. The site is organized the way citizens see the world, said D. Cameron Findlay, deputy secretary of the Department of Labor.
Governments are becoming sophisticated in using the Internet to improve service delivery and operational efficiency, according to Accenture's third annual report.
The Office of Management and Budget soon will dole out $4.1 million to a trio of e-government programs, the FirstGov project and to an effort to educate agencies about managing change.
BetterManagement.com announced the launch of its Government Excellence Resource Center, a portal designed to help public-sector organizations improve their performance.
The Bush administration is counting heavily on state and local governments to help it succeed with the government-to-government portion of its e-government program, said Mark Forman, associate director of information technology and e-government for the Office of Management and Budget.
