A new online wizard can determine if Section 508 applies to an acquisition, identify which standards apply, develop wording for a procurement solicitation and document compliance.
GTSI Corp. has been awarded blanket purchase agreements from the Agriculture Department for mobile and wireless services for employees who work remotely.
Physicians who bilk Medicare on claims soon may be unable to hide among the system stovepipes of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Officials are modernizing CMS' data collection and storage systems, hoping to bring down the agency's soaring rate of improper payments and reduce waste, fraud and abuse.
Rhonda Joseph has assumed the enterprise architecture responsibilities previously held by Darren Ash as deputy associate CIO for the Transportation Deparment.
The Commerce Department agency will seek IT services for help desk, seat management, Web programming and development, network operations center, e-mail operations and other services supporting the IT infrastructure.
Lawmakers are applying additional restrictions and greater oversight on large IT and e-government projects in the fiscal 2006 agency spending bills making their way through Congress.
The company cites flaws in the procurement, including improper evaluations of the vendor's offers and Agriculture's failure to justify its choice of a substantially higher proposal from ReserveAmerica.
Fox did not give a specific date, but indicated his departure would be "in the near future." He becomes the third top official to leave GSA's Federal Supply Service in the last month.
The Health and Human Services Department wants to develop a portal to provide access to the public and private data repositories that contain the qualifications of government medical incident officials.
The award is the result of a recompete for the National Recreation Reservation Service after a bidder protested the original award by the Agriculture Department agency to ReserveAmerica.
Secretary Mike Leavitt said an Rx drug adverse-event reporting system could be one of the first projects that a federal advisory group might take on as part of an initiative to build a national health information exchange.
The Health and Human Services Department has released requests for proposals that it hopes will pave the way toward developing a national health information network infrastructure that supports the exchange of electronic health records.
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced the formation of a national collaboration and four requests for proposals as the next steps to advance adoption of health IT.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will release a request for proposals next month to consolidate to a single help desk at its main facility in Silver Spring, Md.
Treasury notified the Government Accountability Office in a letter May 20 that it intended to terminate the Treasury Communications Enterprise contract with AT&T.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a request for proposals for key components of a crowd-behavior simulation model prototype.
The Armed Services Committee stuck to the recommendations of a subcommittee and approved the reduction in the Defense Department's $30 billion fiscal 2006 IT budget request.
The Health and Human Services Department has released presolicitation notices for the development of a nationwide health information network architecture.
