After more than a year without a procurement chief, David Safavian was confirmed Nov. 21 as administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Within the next week, the Government Accountability Office will add another chapter to the ongoing drama of the Housing and Urban Development Department's IT Services buy when it rules on the second protest filed by the losing vendor.
The General Services Administration today released two draft requests for proposals for its $10 billion Networx telecommunications governmentwide acquisition contract.
HERSHEY, Pa. ? The Homeland Security Department will set up a working capital fund to pay for its IT infrastructure consolidation work. Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper said yesterday that the Homeland Security Department Financial Accountability Act lets the agency use funding from each directorate to pay for intra-agency projects.
For his commitment and enthusiasm in supporting the federal IT community, the American Council for Technology and IAC yesterday honored Kevin Carroll, the Army's program officer for enterprise programs with the Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award at the 14th annual Executive Leadership Conference 2004.
HERSHEY, Pa. ? The Office of Management and Budget is considering an innovation fund to pay for its lines-of-business consolidation projects. "It would be similar to a governmentwide working capital fund," said John Sindelar, OMB's program manager for the e-government initiative.
The Defense Department isn't only worried about the General Services Administration's contracting practices; it wants to make sure all the other agencies its contracting officers do business with are getting it right.
By Nov. 12, agencies must send annual reports on their competitive sourcing efforts to the Office of Management and Budget. OMB will then report the results to Congress.
Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), the force behind much of Congress' oversight of federal IT during the last two years, is moving from the House Government Reform Committee to the Rules Committee, effective today.
The Office of Management and Budget is evaluating proposals that would have federal agencies share services for financial management and human resources, a move that could create significant integration and outsourcing opportunities for contractors.
SRA International Inc. is going to help the Small Business Administration upgrade its Disaster Credit Management System under a $13.9 million task order.
The Office of Management and Budget will hire a contractor by the end of the month to make sure all 25 e-government projects comply with federal laws and regulations, a senior administration official said.
	After five years of planning and research, the National Archives and Records Administration has taken the next step in dealing with the flood of electronic records that agencies produce each day.
OMB tracks 27 agencies' efforts to meet Bush administration management goals on human capital, competitive sourcing, financial management, e-government and budget and performance integration.
