Public-private arrangements are bringing e-learning to thousands of Africans whose access to traditional education is hampered by poverty, a new report says.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has won a four-year, $33.2 million contract from Riverside, Calif., to provide enterprise information technology outsourcing services.
A pilot program that links small businesses with products and services to sell to federal, state and local government agencies and private companies is being expanded.
<FONT SIZE=2>Web site and e-mail traffic spiked Sept. 11, 2001. Worldwide, people were trying to find out what happened and locate loved ones after terrorists struck New York and Washington. But accurate information was hard to find, and some communications systems overloaded, including government Web sites.</FONT>
Comptroller General David Walker has called upon the Office of Management and Budget to more closely adhere to recommendations of the Commercial Activities Panel in its revised Circular A-76.
President Bush will request $59.1 billion in federal information technology funding for fiscal 2004, White House official Mark Forman said Monday. The request is about $4.9 billion more than the $54.2 billion in IT spending expected in fiscal 2003.
Soza & Co. Ltd. won a five-year, $29.5 million contract from the U.S. Mint's application development office for consolidated information technology support services.
The General Services Administration wants to charge subscribers to its FedBizOpps service an annual fee for using its special e-mail notification features. The fee, which would be no more than $30, would be charged beginning Oct. 1. It would be charged only for subscribers who sign up to receive all notices from selected organizations and product service classifications, or to receive all procurement notices on the site.
Federal information technology vendors will have until Oct. 1, 2004, to ensure that government purchasers of electronic and IT products under $2,500 are able to buy goods that comply with Section 508 technical standards.
<FONT SIZE=2>The Immigration and Naturalization Service human resources operation was struggling with poor service and staff defections when the agency in July turned to a Web-based HR service provided by Avue Technologies Corp. of Tacoma, Wash.</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2>Two laws passed late last year are giving new hope to small companies and new entrants into the federal marketplace that say they have innovative e-government and homeland security-related technologies but have lacked a reliable pipeline to agency decision-makers.</FONT>
Systems integrator PlanGraphics Inc. has won a task order with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to support its enterprise architecture practice.
RS Information Systems Inc. has won a $10 million contract to provide software development and systems maintenance support for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
