Brown-Dixon goes from GSA to SBA

A small-business guru and director of small business takes talents to SBA

Higginbottom picked as deputy director at OMB

More executive changes: Heather Higginbottom to be named deputy director at OMB, and GSA's Teresa Nasif moves to head senior executive service initiatives.

GSA's acquisition center reorganizing for new year

Joe Jeu, assistant commissioner for General Supplies and Services at GSA, will be leaving the agency, and other personnel changes are also underway.

Hughes to provide government with managed broadband services

Hughes Network Systems believes that it can use its commercial satellite and DSL technologies to be a player in the federal broadband space.

GSA's Google Apps award raises Microsoft’s hackles

Microsoft Corp. complains that GSA amended a request for proposals that resulted in Unisys Corp. winning a $6.7 million contract to create a cloud-based e-mail system using Google Apps. What ticked off the software giant?

Unisys brings Google Apps to GSA

Unisys Corp. has won a General Services Administration contract worth $6.7 million to create a secure, cloud-based e-mail and collaboration platform for the agency.

Are feds ho-hum about pay freeze?

Several employees from the General Services Administration didn't really complain about losing out on plenty of money over the next two years.

Cloud vendors get $77M opportunity from GSA

Eleven contractors get the green light from the General Services Administration to provide federal, state, local and tribal governments with cloud storage, virtual machines and Web hosting services.

Officials recognize breakthroughs in bulk buying

Agencies, acting differently and under new pressures, are reconsidering strategic sourcing's benefits.

Lockheed, General Dynamics protest $2.6B DHS award

Rivals want the General Services Administration and Homeland Security Department to rethink their decision to award Northrop Grumman the contract to build the infrastructure for the new DHS headquarters campus.

This just in from the 'Department of Redundancy Reduction Department'

GSA's Gwynne Kostin offered a humorous take on efforts to improve federal workforce productivity during the FedScoop FedTalks 2010 conference.

CGI to boost capabilities of GSA public info website

CGI Federal Inc. will provide dataset hosting and other IT services to the General Services Administration under a five-year blanket purchase agreement with a ceiling of up to $46 million.

Cisco and Westcon pay $48M to settle GSA pricing dispute

Cisco Systems and Westcon Group North America will pay the government $48 million to settle claims that they made misrepresentations to the General Services Administration in violation of the False Claims Act.

Who made Northrop’s $2.6B DHS team?

Northrop Grumman has a slate of large contractors and a plethora of small businesses on its DHS headquarters team.

GSA poised to release security guidelines for cloud products

The General Services Administration is poised to release security controls and guidelines designed to speed up the certification and accreditation of cloud computing products and services for public comment.

Northrop wins $2.6B pact for IT at new DHS headquarters

Northrop Grumman will build the IT infrastructure as the Homeland Security Department builds its new campus in Washington, D.C., during the next 10 years.

How good is your emissions reporting? GSA wants to know.

GSA finds it feasible for companies to report their emissions data in a voluntary system and is moving ahead with the idea.

GSA continues leadership shifts

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GSA may recompete HSPD-12 contract

Violations of procurement policies revealed in an IG report could lead to a new competition for a services contract at GSA.

Qwest stamped as trusted Internet authority

Qwest is now the second Networx contract holder to earn GSA ’s Managed Trusted IP Service authority to operate governmentwide and under both Enterprise and Universal contracts.