A relative newcomer to the U.S. public sector, Capgemini Government Solutions has invested several million dollars in the past two years to expand its footprint into U.S. markets such as health care, verification and validation systems, and enterprise resource planning.
Vendors are looking over changes that the Homeland Security Department plans for a contracting vehicle that its agencies have used to buy information technology worth billions.
DHS proposes dividing contract between service delivery, program support, and verification and validation and says it could have as many as 53 winners.
Input predicts that the federal market for information technology contractors will grow at a faster rate than the overall federal IT budget, hitting $111.9 billion by 2015.
As the network does indeed become the computer, Susan Zeleniak of Verizon Federal thinks telecommunications carriers might be poised to take business from systems integrators. Zeleniak and Verizon have done it already.
The Homeland Security Department’s Office of Procurement Operations is looking at contracts that include some performance-based items as a way to meet governmentwide requirements to reduce spending on contracts considered to be high risk.
The Homeland Security Department plans to issue solicitations this fiscal year for a departmentwide IT services contracting program to proceed DHS' $45 billion EAGLE acquistion vehicle.
The Homeland Security Department is considering getting rid of all functional categories and allowing broad competition for the possible EAGLE II-Unrestricted acquisition vehicle.
The Homeland Security Department plans to hold an industry day in the next few months for the small business portion of its second-generation contract vehicle to obtain information technology support services.
The Homeland Security Department is working out details of a small-business version of the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions contract.
