Agencies work to get a handle on contracting for results
Only a quarter of government procurement managers in a special GCN Management e-mail survey said they fully understand what procurement-based contracting is and how to write a performance-based contract.
The key ingredient: discipline
While performance-based contracting is hardly a new tool for agencies, the Veterans Affairs Department is one of the few having success.
Chicago adjusts on the fly to make its contract perform
What's one way to make performance-based IT acquisition work? Keep it simple.
It's what's up front that counts
On paper, performance-based IT services acquisition looks like a piece of cake: You tell the contractors what you want and let them find the best way to do it.
It all comes down to the mission
The goal of performance-based IT services contracting is, ultimately, to improve the bottom line. And for government agencies, the bottom line is mission.
Missile-tracking project beset by software troubles, GAO says
The $4.4 billion sensor system the Air Force is developing to track ballistic missile attacks suffers from software deficiencies, cost increases and schedule overruns, the General Accounting Office has concluded.<br>
New e-gov committee chairman moving to Treasury
Samuel W. Bodman, new chairman of the E-Government Committee of the President's Management Council, has been tapped to move from his No. 2 job at the Commerce Department to the same post at the Treasury Department.<br>
CDC awards contracts for IT services
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month awarded contracts worth up to $465 million jointly to Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. for a variety of IT services. <br>
Paige proposes to meet with states on diploma mills
Education Department secretary Roderick Paige wants to convene a meeting for state and federal officials to discuss the best ways of dealing with government employees who obtain bogus credentials from diploma mills.<br>
Integration suite borrows app functions
Database vendor InterSystems Corp. this week introduced an integration platform called Ensemble, which it will target to users of its object database, Cache, in the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments.<br>
Congress keeps government open another week
The federal government can keep operating until Nov. 7 after the House passed a continuing resolution yesterday.<br>
Feds proselytize for XML
Agencies that don't already have an Extensible Markup Language evangelist need to get one as a guide, a federal Web services specialist said yesterday.<br>
DOD recruits workers online for southwest Asia
The Defense Department has launched a Web site to recruit contract civilian workers to assist in rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan.<br>
Forman: Stop customizing core financial systems
Agencies need to adopt a core set of software standards for financial management, the former Office of Budget and Management administrator for e-government and IT says.<br>
DOD and VA will test joint IT operations
Eight Defense Department medical sites will team up with Veterans Affairs Department medical facilities to improve financial management, staffing and medical IT systems. <br>
FAA reorganizing modernization efforts
The Federal Aviation Administration has taken steps to give its air traffic control modernization a boost by reorganizing the units conducting the various projects under one bureau, the General Accounting Office said today.<br>
DISA opens center to increase bandwidth
The Defense Information Systems Agency yesterday opened a station to increase the bandwidth available to networked users, DOD Teleport-Northwest.<br>
DOD developing strategies to buy services better
The Defense Department is developing four or five test programs to change the way acquisition officials buy services.<br>
IT advances, leaders are saluted
Information technology's role in homeland defense, individual efforts are honored at the annual GCN gala.
GSA is developing new SmartBuy models
The General Services Administration will submit a plan to revamp the administration's enterprise software licensing initiative which likely will include models for tiered pricing and comprehensive packages. <br>
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