Before February, the U.S. Agency for International Development's network was scanned for vulnerabilities monthly, after which its systems administrators in 80 nations were sent reports about the vulnerabilities that were found.
No schedule or multiple-award contract has ever been dedicated to share in savings ? until now. The General Services Administration last month awarded blanket purchase agreements to six companies to sell share-in-savings information technology projects to 19 federal agencies.
Request for proposals covers a defined-benefits system that will give federal employees and retirees access to their government retirement account information.
CACI International Inc. to provide systems integration, software development and business process support for information systems at all Navy shipyards.
The consortium is soliciting technologies from industry, academic institutions and government labs to support the Defense and Homeland Security Departments.
When Richard Stanton filed an application for his company's first General Services Administration schedule last month, he did it electronically and became one of the first to use GSA's new eOffer program, which lets contractors apply online for IT Schedule 70.
Industry executives said they like what they hear so far about a rule under development at the White House that will tell agencies when they can use time-and-materials contracts.
The Small Business Administration still plans to simplify its small-business size standards despite its recent decision to reassess changes it proposed in March, according to <b>Gary Jackson</b>, assistant administrator for size standards. Thousands of public comments raised significant concerns about the planned changes and led SBA to pull back.
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font color>Six companies get blanket purchase agreements worth up to $500 million to help federal agencies develop share-in-savings contracts.
