SmartBuy deal: volume discounts for guaranteed purchases
The first enterprise software agreement under the GSA SmartBuy program provides six agencies with deeper volume discounts and gives vendor ESRI guaranteed licenses.
WANTED: Partners in cybersecurity
<b>Michael Maggio</b> knew his company's wireless security product could be a winner if it caught the interest of a prime contractor in government IT. So the Newbury Networks Inc. president and chief executive officer trumpeted the ability of his company's WiFi Watchdog product to track wireless users. Maggio's marketing signals were picked up by no less than the second largest integrator, Northop Grumman. In a special report, Washington Technology found that Newbury's courting of Northrop Grumman is typical of how large integrators and smaller, specialized cybersecurity companies form partnerships.
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EDS to stop new work on HITS contract
EDS Corp. will suspend new transition work on the $860 million HUD Information Technology Services contract following court-ordered negotiations with incumbent Lockheed Martin Corp.
FTS, industry to hold open session on Networx
Industry will have the chance Feb. 17 to give the GSA's Federal Technology Service its thoughts on FTS Networx, the next-generation telecommunications contract.
IRS refuses CSC new modernization contracts
The IRS won't consider Computer Sciences Corp. for work on future contracts to modernize tax enforcement and compliance systems, the IRS commissioner told lawmakers today.
Lockheed IT bullish on outsourcing
The future of government IT lies in peer-to-peer technology, Lockheed Martin IT president Linda Gooden predicted today.
Online extra: Is this a share-in-savings project? New tools help decide
The Share-in-Savings Program Office at the General Services Administration has developed two tools to evaluate projects for use with share-in-savings contracting, said Ken Buck, director of the office.
Online extra: Share-in savings works with the right projects
Share-in-savings contracts are appropriate for several types of IT work, industry and government officials said, including system or infrastructure consolidation and revenue collection.
Buy Lines: Ban offshore outsourcing? Be careful what you wish for
The issue of "offshoring" ? moving work from the United States to lower-cost locations overseas ? is taking off. Presidential candidates are talking about it; Congress has taken small steps toward banning it on federal contracts; and analysts of all stripes have weighed in with their perspectives.
Rule to raise share-in-savings profile
Federal procurement officials are poised to issue new guidelines that could give share-in-savings contracting the boost it needs for wider use in the federal government.
TRADE SECRETS
Some companies get how to sell to the federal government. Some don't. "They don't help me understand how they can solve the business problems the department has," said <b>Mike Sade</b>, senior procurement executive at the Commerce Department. Those that get it, Sade said, have embraced the procurement reforms now guiding federal agencies. Washington Technology talked to companies at the top of their game in connecting with government and found out how they do it.
Law limits offshoring of A-76 work
A new federal law bars companies that win competitions to perform work done by federal employees from shifting the work to other countries.
DHS seeks bids to build secret network
The Homeland Security Department is soliciting vendors on the General Services Administration's Millennia contract to build and run the Homeland Secure Data Network, a network for communication across DHS.
Infotech and the Law: Savvy contractors brush up on procurement integrity laws
Procurement integrity laws have been around since 1989, but rarely in the news as prominently as they were in 2003.
Vendors face performance, small-biz goals on Alliant
Get it right or get out -- that's the message to vendors from GSA's Federal Technology Service on the upcoming $150 billion Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract.
Homeland Security forum to put agency needs on table
The Homeland Security Department will host a two-day conference in March to tell industry what the agency needs and requires in technology.
GSA will merge six governmentwide contracts
With its new plan to merge the services of six governmentwide acquisition contracts into the Alliant procurement, the General Services Administration is upping the ante on its effort to eliminate duplicative GWACs.
Contracting out of control at FTS regional offices, IG says
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED </font color>GSA's inspector general today said the Federal Technology Service's client support centers in three regions have breached federal procurement laws over the last two years.
Buy Lines: Iraq reconstruction: The maze to the money
Several hundred companies crowded a recent Industry Day to discuss contracting opportunities for Iraq reconstruction.
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