Instead of awarding a sole-source contract to Eagle Eye for the first phase of the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act, GSA issued an RFP for data and software that would list grant and contract award info from fiscal 2000-07. The small-business set-aside contract is for 19 months.
A test of GSA's program to speed the award process for schedule contracts is moving into its second phase, as agency officials see successes and the potential for more.
In its first score cards, SBA handed out 12 red scores, which show that agencies did not reach their annual small-business goals for 2006. There were five yellows and seven green scores.
Many industry analysts and investors have expressed concern about the outlook for federal services companies. They seem to believe that the industry's best years are in the rearview mirror.
In commercial contract law, if a clause is intended to survive the termination of the balance of a contract, the contract will say so, which illustrates another disparity between commercial and government contract law.
IBM will pay $2.97 million, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers will pay $2.32 million, to settle allegations that they made improper payments in connection with federal IT contracts.
Acting as the procurement arm for a group that includes ODNI, DOD and OMB, the Air Force issued a RFI asking vendors for strategies on how to meet Congress' 2009 deadline for improving the security clearance process.
GSA set a ceiling of $50 billion for the Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract, but Input analysts believe that it will actually generate far less business.
In the second report on the management of the Sentinel program, GAO found that the FBI is heading down a successful path, but needs to address some outstanding problems.
