Treasury awards a $13 million BPA for voice and data services
The Treasury Department has awarded SBC Global Services Inc. a 4.5-year, $13 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the department and its bureaus with telephony equipment and service.
By the numbers
Tracking the size of government is always a challenge. But a picture of the recent recession's effect on the federal, state and local work force comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics records of what it calls extended mass layoffs'the dismissal of 50 workers or more for 30 days or longer.
Another View: It's time for a little realism in service contracts
An eastern state negotiating an IT services contract requires a senior programmer/analyst with five years' experience. The state is willing to pay no more than $65 per hour. A West Coast state will pay maybe $75 per hour. A federal program demands programmers with masters' degree plus at least seven years' experience, but rates vary.
Making cybersense
As in the aftermath of other crises in U.S. history, the government instinctively began creating new offices following the Sept. 11 attacks.
State awards $160 million support contract to CSC
The State Department has awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a $160 million contract for IT services and products.
Palm still leads the Paq among handheld users
Personal digital assistants from Palm Inc. are still the handheld PC of choice among government users, a GCN telephone survey found.
SBA opens Office XP for business
The Small Business Administration this summer will give all its users Microsoft XP applications.
DISA will make its DREN response Wednesday
The Defense Information Systems Agency Wednesday plans to defend its Defense Research and Engineering Network procurement when it files a response to three protests lodged with the General Accounting Office.
Air Force is set to award XML forms contract
The Air Force today plans to award PureEdge Solutions Inc. a contract to test a software for converting the service's 14,000 electronic forms into Extensible Markup Language.
The week's top stories for May 6 to May 10
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Voinovich bill would create a post to manage work force shrinkage
Congress may consider a bill that would call for federal agencies to appoint a chief human capital officer to address the problems of a dwindling federal IT work force.
Contract for DDX networked ships draws protest
Bath Iron Works, a unit of General Dynamics Corp., filed a protest yesterday with the General Accounting Office challenging the Navy's decision to hire Northrop Grumman Corp. to design the $2.9 billion DDX networked warships.
Complete STARS system is operating at Texas airport
After years of delay and cost overruns, the Federal Aviation Administration finally is operating a full version of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System.
Davis bill would speed buy-in of homeland defense technology
Agencies could streamline their acquisition procedures for commercial homeland defense technologies under a bill introduced this month by Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) to amend the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act.
NSA targets small businesses with contract
The National Security Agency has awarded a multiple prime contract to 14 Washington-area companies under its NSA Set-Aside for Small Business (NSETS) program.
GSA needs to better manage its MAA program, GAO says
Government users are forgoing millions of dollars a month in savings due to delays in moving to competitive local telephone service contracts, and the General Services Administration should do a better job of managing the transition to its Metropolitan Area Acquisition program.
11 courts put criminal case files online
Eleven federal courts are letting the public access criminal case files online.
OMB to e-gov partners: Show us the money you need
The Office of Management and Budget is asking the agencies managing the 24 e-government initiatives to detail their resources needs so OMB can use its authority under the Clinger-Cohen Act to better allocate funding.
Expanded HP reveals product strategies
Following this week's finalization of the merger of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp., officials of the consolidated company said servers, storage and software will remain the core of its enterprise offerings.
DOD awards $1 billion in systems support contracts
The Defense Department has awarded IT support contracts worth a total of $1 billion to eight companies that will vie for systems engineering work at DOD locations worldwide.
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