The Defense Information Systems Agency is issuing an RFP for its Coalition and Advanced Information Technology Integration and Operations acquisition. The small-business contract will support the transfer of advanced IT from research and experimentation through pilot operations to deployment and full-scale implementation with the Defense Information Infrastructure. The contract is for one year with four one-year options; two one-year incentive award term periods are possible. Details can be found via fedbizopps.gov, solicitation no. DCA100-03-R-4020FINALRFP, or at www.ditco.disa.mil/dcop.
The General Services Administration and the Small Business Administration are fixing government databases that incorrectly classify many large federal contractors as small businesses.
The Air Force Space Command's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., awarded the $429 million Western Range Operations Communications and Information contract to InDyne Inc. It is one of the largest federal IT contracts ever for a small business.
Competitive stress on mid-sized federal contractors has risen in recent years. Contract bundling is increasing the size prime contractors need to be; at the same time, the administration is pushing for more contract awards to small and disadvantaged businesses.
Indianapolis Chief Information Officer Mike Hineline doesn't hesitate to acknowledge the shortcomings of local government when it comes to delivering electronic services to citizens and businesses.
In January, Texas attorney Riecke Baumann filed the first electronic lawsuit in Fort Bend County, Texas, while sitting in his Houston office, an hour drive from the courthouse.
Homeland security contracting has emerged over the past 18 months as an area of intense interest in the contracting community. Many large systems integrators have shuffled priorities and resources to go after this growing market, and hosts of smaller companies, many of them new to the government market, have set their sights on entry into this field.
Federal agencies missed their aim of sending 23 percent of prime contracting dollars to small businesses for the third straight year, according to the annual scorecard produced by Democratic members of the House Committee on Small Business.
Optimism and frustration represent an unusual ying-yang, especially for technology entrepreneurs who are living through - "surviving" may be a better description - this era of unprecedented change.
From their offices in Vienna, Va., the four founders of Appian Corp. can look down on the apartment complex where they lived, played basketball and, in August 1999, began their software and professional services firm.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc., Dallas, won a five-year, $6 million task order to provide the Air Force Materiel Command with information technology support services.
Recently, the Small Business Administration announced its intention to institute "re-certification procedures," applicable to companies seeking to continue their work under small business contracts beyond the initial contract period.
Executives at NCI Information Systems started planning for the firm's 1999 graduation from the 9-year-long 8(a) program five years in advance, said Linda Allan, executive vice president of strategic programs for the McLean, Va., firm. Small firms compete for set-aside contracts through the 8(a) program, which is run by the Small Business Administration.
A successful small business excels at a few things, said Valerie Perlowitz, president and chief executive officer of Reliable Integration Services Inc. in Dunn Loring, Va.
One of the first things Michael Barbee did after joining WAM!NET Government Services in 2001 was move the unit of Eagan, Minn.-based WAM!NET Inc. to Herndon, Va.
Michael Barbee believes his company is not quite ready for prime contracting in the federal information technology arena, so it works as a subcontractor about 80 percent of the time.
Raytheon Co., Lexington, Mass., has reorganized its government and defense businesses into seven separate units, the company announced. "This new, leaner government and defense structure ... eliminates layers and cost and will enable us to move with greater speed and agility," said Daniel Burnham, chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a four-year, $157 million extension to continue providing a variety of information technology services to the Australian Federal Government.
The federal government has increased its reliance on small, disadvantaged businesses for information technology goods and services during the past four years, according to Input Inc.
