General Services Administration officials are asking agencies for their help in negotiating enterprisewide software licensing agreements under the SmartBuy program, said Neal Fox, assistant commissioner for commercial acquisition at GSA's Federal Supply Service.
The government should leverage the expertise of private industry when it develops continuity of operations plans, an AT&T Corp. executive told Congress today.
The General Accounting Office has ruled that federal employees do not have the right to file protests to GAO over public-private competitions under revised OMB Circular A-76.
After the Office of Personnel Management repeatedly ignored recommendations by the General Accounting Office to recompete the Recruitment One-Stop contract, the agency reconsidered when a key lawmaker warned that the e-government project could lose funding, sources said.
The Corporate Information Security Working Group penned 25 recommendations on steps the private sector can take to improve IT security. It created the list for Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
The General Services Administration by the end of the month will kick off a line of new business consolidation initiatives by releasing a request for information.
The Defense Department later this month will release two requests for proposals for pilot programs using its Business Management Modernization Program architecture.
The General Services Administration this month plans to release a draft request for proposals to upgrade and enhance FedBizOpps, the government's procurement portal.
The Office of Management and Budget clarified goals for the SmartBuy governmentwide software licensing program and detailed plans to put five enterprise deals in place by October.
The General Services Administration is considering major changes to its $10 billion telecommunications governmentwide acquisition follow-on contract to FTS 2001.
The first enterprise software agreement under the GSA SmartBuy program provides six agencies with deeper volume discounts and gives vendor ESRI guaranteed licenses.
After struggling with the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program for the past eight months, the General Services Administration last week finally signed the first agreement with geographic information systems vendor Environmental Systems Research Institute.
