The General Services Administration's new chief acquisition officer wants to focus on the agency's compliance with federal acquisition rules, the skills of its acquisition workforce and small businesses' participation in federal procurements.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation awarded four contractors a 10-year, $550 million contract to provide information technology application services.
The General Services Administration will issue on Thursday the draft requests for proposals for its multibillion-dollar Alliant and Alliant Small Business information technology service contracts.
The U.S. Agency for International Development is holding a pre-proposal conference Tuesday for contractors interested in bidding on its five-year, $100 million Famine Early Warning Systems Network project.
SRI International Inc. won a two-year, $12 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an automated medical treatment system for the battlefield that does not require onsite medical personnel.
Requests for proposals for the multibillion-dollar FTS Networx contract are delayed until May following a change of heart at the General Services Administration.
Artel Inc. won a four-year, $12.5 million task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency for satellite services to the U.S. Central Command for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
General Dynamics Corp. won a $27.8 million contract from the Navy to provide integration and design agent services for a system that gives commanders an integrated view of the battlefield.
The $46.7 million contract renewal from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center is for technical services for the information warfare exploitation systems engineering division.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $10 million contract from the United Kingdom's Defense Ministry for fire-control systems for 15 multiple-launch rocket systems.
Sprint Corp. won $16.6 million worth of prime contracts to provide data connectivity via international private lines for Defense Department facilities within Japan and between Japan and Guam.
The Homeland Security Department's plan to combine nine major screening and tracking programs into one office is being greeted with both excitement and trepidation by IT contractors.
The Government Accountability Office has thwarted a $1 billion Treasury Department award to AT&T Corp. after it learned that agency had entered into an agreement that encouraged it to let the contract expire early.
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED</font color> The Government Accountability Office has sustained protests filed by three companies against the Treasury Department's award of the $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract to AT&T.
