The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has to resolve whether to grant a request from NASA to reauthorize its Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement.
Lawmakers will have to figure out how to handle the spate of appropriations bills that have yet to pass the legislative branch when Congress returns to session next week.
Observers have said that under the new leadership in Congress, federal IT issues will receive closer scrutiny, but it is unclear whether the White House's e-government initiative will sink or swim.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color> Now that the Democrats have taken over at least one house of Congress, President Bush's competitive-sourcing initiative could be under heavy scrutiny.
The inspector general at the Defense Department has said that both GSA and DOD are to blame for a string of procurement problems over the past several years.
The General Service Administration has announced that it will not exercise the remaining options under a contested contract providing Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 services to its shared-services provider customers.
The chairwoman of the Senate Small Business Committee believes the agency has inhibited small firms from bidding on the GSA Infrastructure Technology Global Operations acquisition vehicle.
ActivIdentity Corp. has been tapped by the Department of Defense to help the agency make its smart-card system compliant with Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
Information security and streamlining federal procurement will still be top priorities for the House Government Reform Committee ? no matter which party controls Congress after next month's elections.
The General Services Administration and the Commerce Department have reached an agreement in principle to give GSA ownership of Commerce's Information Technology Services Next Generation governmentwide acquisition contract.
Officials from the White House and Small Business Administration formally unveiled a revamped Web site that provides small businesses with a compendium of federal regulations information.
IBM Corp. has been awarded the Interior Department's National Business Center's highly anticipated contract to provide Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 services.
The General Services Administration has released a highly anticipated draft solicitation for small businesses to help the agency streamline and support its IT infrastructure across the agency.
Integic of Chantilly, Va., was awarded a contract from the Office of Personnel Management for the last piece of OPM's long-awaited Retirement Systems Modernization (RSM) project to digitize federal employee retirement records.
In the latest turn of events, the Government Accountability Office has rejected a request by the General Services Administration to partially dismiss a protest of its contested contract with BearingPoint Inc. for Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 solutions.
The Homeland Security Department will turn to Boeing Co. to provide the networking backbone for the department's highly anticipated Secure Border Initiative Network.
