GSA asks for agencies' help with SmartBuy
General Services Administration officials are asking agencies for their help in negotiating enterprisewide software licensing agreements under the SmartBuy program, said Neal Fox, assistant commissioner for commercial acquisition at GSA's Federal Supply Service.
Davis resurrects acquisition reforms
Acquisition reforms that didn't make it through Congress last year have been brought back to life by their author, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.)
GSA to let agencies negotiate some SmartBuy deals
Agencies with specific software needs that GSA is not in negotiations for could initiate a governmentwide license.
AT&T touts continuity of operations plans
The government should leverage the expertise of private industry when it develops continuity of operations plans, an AT&T Corp. executive told Congress today.
GAO denies federal employees standing in A-76 protests
The General Accounting Office has ruled that federal employees do not have the right to file protests to GAO over public-private competitions under revised OMB Circular A-76.
GSA issues RFI for next e-government projects
Wanted: Ideas on how government can better integrate the systems and services that support financial, grants and human resources management.
Review finds more GSA contracting problems
Review shows 84 percent of contracts in the National Capital Region either were drawn inadequately or were seriously inadequate.
Online Extra: Funding threat prompts RFI for jobs portal
After the Office of Personnel Management repeatedly ignored recommendations by the General Accounting Office to recompete the Recruitment One-Stop contract, the agency reconsidered when a key lawmaker warned that the e-government project could lose funding, sources said.
Working group offers 25 ways to better IT security
The Corporate Information Security Working Group penned 25 recommendations on steps the private sector can take to improve IT security. It created the list for Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
GSA readies RFI for next wave of e-gov projects
The General Services Administration by the end of the month will kick off a line of new business consolidation initiatives by releasing a request for information.
Vendor sought to consolidate recreation sites
The consolidation of the government's recreation reservation Web sites is about to begin.
States warm up to GSA's IT schedule
Rep. Tom Davis today stumped for more IT vendors to make cooperative purchasing part of their General Services Administration IT Schedule contracts.
DOD to test business modernization architecture
The Defense Department later this month will release two requests for proposals for pilot programs using its Business Management Modernization Program architecture.
GSA prepares for FedBizOpps follow-on contract
The General Services Administration this month plans to release a draft request for proposals to upgrade and enhance FedBizOpps, the government's procurement portal.
OMB lays out plans for five new SmartBuy deals
The Office of Management and Budget clarified goals for the SmartBuy governmentwide software licensing program and detailed plans to put five enterprise deals in place by October.
GSA tells lawmakers Networx can be improved
The General Services Administration is considering major changes to its $10 billion telecommunications governmentwide acquisition follow-on contract to FTS 2001.
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.
GSA signs first SmartBuy deal with ESRI
After struggling with the SmartBuy enterprise software licensing program for the past eight months, the General Services Administration last week finally signed the first agreement with geographic information systems vendor Environmental Systems Research Institute.
OMB tells agencies to focus on cybersecurity
The Office of Management and Budget has told 18 agencies not to develop, modernize or enhance IT systems until their cybersecurity problems are fixed.
Florida CIO Bahrami resigns
Florida CIO Kim Bahrami today announced she is stepping down from her post effective Feb. 27. A replacement has not been named.
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