With the New Year, Defense Department contractors will be required to mark items delivered to DoD with unique identifiers such as bar codes or radio frequency ID tags. Contractors will also be required to identify the unit cost of all hardware items delivered under a contract.
The Small Business Administration has created a new industry category and size standard of 150 employees for information technology value-added resellers. The new rule is effective Jan. 28.
The Department of Education is looking for research proposals from small businesses in the areas of consulting at the state and local level and development of educational products.
Beginning Jan. 1, small businesses will no longer need to register in both the Small Business Administration's Pro-Net, a database of small businesses, and the Central Contractor Registration, the government's database of all contractors.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a contract worth up to $50 million from the State Department for African peacekeeping operations and humanitarian assistance training.
Information technology solutions providers are showing strong interest in the General Services Administration's Cooperative Purchasing Program, according to a survey released Dec. 8 by McLean, Va., IT public relations firm O'Keeffe & Co. Inc.
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.
CGI Group Inc. won a five-year renewal of its Trust Asset and Accounting Management System contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Canadian company announced today.
DRS Technologies Inc. received a $20.3 million contract to provide rugged computer systems for the U.S. Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below program.
House legislation that would reauthorize spending by the Small Business Administration for fiscal 2004 and 2005 has been delayed because of concerns about its procurement provisions, according to House Democrats on the Small Business Committee.
Information technology solutions providers and state and local governments have shown strong interest in the General Services Administration's Cooperative Purchasing Program, according to a survey released Dec. 8 by O'Keeffe & Co. Inc. The program allows companies that sell to federal agencies through GSA's Federal Supply Service IT schedule to sell through the schedule to state and local governments as well.
Saying it no longer has enough employees to safeguard contractors' confidential information, NASA officials today proposed changes meant to strengthen protection of contractors' proprietary data when it must be disclosed to non-NASA support workers.
Language in the fiscal 2004 Transportation-Treasury spending bill that would have curtailed some new procedures for competition of federal jobs has been altered in an omnibus spending bill.
