Gray Hawk wins Web services deal with Bureau of Engraving
Gray Hawk Systems won a five-year contract from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to host and manage the agency's MoneyFactory.com Web site.
IBM wins Texas voter registration work
IBM has been awarded a $12 million contract from Texas for a statewide voter registration system that complies with the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
Maryland county plans ERP study
The Montgomery County, Md., Office of Procurement wants to conduct a requirements study for enterprise resource planning. An RFP is expected in April. The requirements study will include evaluation, recommendation and possible implementation of an ERP system.
Infotech and the law: Size regulations still an issue with SBA rule
Recently, the Small Business Administration issued a final rule to amend its small-business size regulations. Buried in this rule is a potentially confusing requirement for small businesses to provide updated size certifications following certain types of mergers or acquisitions.
Titan cops to bribery
Titan Corp. pleaded guilty March 1 to criminal charges that it bribed foreign officials for business favors, and agreed to pay $28.5 million in criminal and civil fines to the federal government to settle the charges.
Disabled vets get $5 billion GWAC
The General Services Administration this spring will release a $5 billion, 10-year governmentwide acquisition contract for service-disabled veteran-owned IT small businesses.
Qwest ducks debarment by GSA
After a two-and-a-half-year probe, the General Services Administration declined to debar Qwest Communications International Inc. of Denver from competing for federal government work.
San Diego recompetes deal
San Diego County is kicking off the re-compete process for the lucrative IT outsourcing contract that Computer Sciences Corp. has held since 1999.
Market Watch: Slow federal growth doesn't slow some contractors
Investors in defense and federal IT companies have become more cautious about the growth potential for companies, mainly because of slowing growth rates in U.S. defense budgets and the constraining impact of federal government deficits.
FBI faces difficult choices
This spring, FBI's leadership will decide whether to scrap the much maligned Virtual Case File System or allow its contractor, Science Applications International Corp., to continue developing the system.
Probe sought for no-bid ANC contracts
Leaders of the House Government Reform Committee want GAO to review agency awards of sole-source small business contracts to Alaska Native Corporations.
Miami-Dade taps Maximus for enterprise financial work
Maximus Inc. has won a $17 million contract from Miami and Dade County, Fla., to implement an enterprise financial system.
Transportation calls for IT support for new hazardous materials agency
The Transportation Department issued a request for program IT support services for its newly formed Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Texas to award eligibility outsourcing work to Accenture
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will award its integrated eligibility and enrollment services outsourcing contract to Accenture Ltd.
Market Share: Investors like Bush's 2006 budget request
Despite investors' concerns over slower defense and IT spending, President Bush's fiscal 2006 IT budget request to Congress asks for a 7 percent increase, better than the 0.9 percent request in 2005 ? subsequently revised to 3.9 percent by the Office of Management and Budget ? and better than the increase I was expecting.
Buy Lines: Get It Right review process needs work now
Later this month, the General Services Administration inspector general is expected to release the first of two reviews of the GSA Client Support Centers as required by the 2005 defense authorization bill. They follow the December 2004 report on the centers, done by the GSA IG, on the recommendation of GSA Administrator Stephen Perry.
Infotech and the law: One decision, a wave of contracting consequence
A recent decision by the Government Accountability Office reflects the federal government's scrutiny and continued oversight of purchases from General Services Administration Schedule contracts.
Budget roundup
President Bush wants to increase IT spending at the Homeland Security Department by a whopping 25 percent in fiscal 2006 to $6.0 billion from $4.8 billion.
FBI admits Trilogy foul-ups
After years of touting its Virtual Case File system as the pinnacle of case management software, the FBI this month told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary that the project probably has failed, and the bureau has wasted $104 million.
VA ponders project's future
The Veterans Affairs Department has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of New York to scrutinize its troubled financial management project.
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