GSA Stands firm on a key deadline for its next-generation telecommunications contract, telling agencies that haven't met transition criteria that they could be disconnected from older telecom contracts.
MetTel, one of three small business vendors on the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, has won a $253 million Social Security Administration task order.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is working to revise language on when procurements begin and when they end and the effort is drawing praise from industry groups.
The agency that provides services to hundreds of Native American tribes wants a multivendor computer hardware contract that allows its agencies to comply with set-aside goals and unite sometimes fragmented buying.
The changes GSA made to its commercial electronic marketplace solicitation in early January makes the portal proposal more amenable to commercial providers, experts said.
After a protest from rival Verizon failed, CenturyLink emerged as the winner of the Interior Department's telecom modernization task order under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
Members of Congress are offering advice to the Agriculture and Treasury departments on how to leverage Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions for modernization.
Even though the General Services Administration's inspector general said two labor pricing tools the agency's acquisition service uses are flawed, alternatives could be worse, a top acquisition official said.
