Acquisition

GSA offers risk analysis services for breaches

The agency signed BPAs with Identity Theft Guard Solutions and SRA International to provide the services.

Acquisition

EPA awards Alion another waste cleanup contract

The company will provide analysis of waste samples, analytical and field support services, and technical information and electronic data transfer capabilities.

Acquisition

Last-minute spending hurts IRS, IG says

As a result of the rush, the agency sometimes violates regulations, and contractors may have skipped steps in the procurement process, a new report states.

Acquisition

HHS awards $22.5M in contracts to health info exchanges

The exchanges will participate in trial implementations of the Nationwide Health Information Network.

Acquisition

No pain, no gain on small-biz goals

The Census Bureau applies pressure to prime contractors via contract award fees.

Acquisition

Large contractors need to give small biz more chances

Large prime contractors tend to let small businesses take on jobs the big guys won't make a lot of money doing, a reader says.

Acquisition

GSA awards $0 contract for spending database data

Global Computing Enterprises, which runs the Federal Procurement Data System, received the contract to supply contracting and grants data with a bid of $0.

Acquisition

GSA picks Symplicity -- again -- to redo FedBizOpps.gov

The contract has been hung up in protests for more than three years.

Acquisition

USDA first to award SmartBuy encryption contract

The department awarded SafeBoot a $1.8 million contract to provide 180,000 licenses for the company's encryption services and support.

Acquisition

SBA to focus on women’s centers

Lawmakers are frustrated by SBA’s lack of progress in meeting 5 percent goal

Acquisition

DIA to consolidate intell support

New award would reduce number of vendors so the agency can streamline its oversight

Acquisition

PCs come full circle

Virtual desktop software is the latest spin on server-based PC computing

Acquisition

The Lectern: Public/private partnerships old and new

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Meet small-biz goals or face consequences, officials say

That could be one remedy to half of federal departments' missing their small-business contracting goals.

Acquisition

USPS taps Northrop to analyze systems

The Postal Service wants independent verification and validation services for its delivery and retail systems.

Acquisition

Treasury awards AT&T $270 million Networx task order

The department awarded AT&T a similar contract almost three years ago.

Acquisition

FEMA official: Local businesses must understand federal procurement

Those businesses' ability to understand federal contracting in an emergency such as Hurricane Katrina is crucial, FEMA's acquisitions director said.

Acquisition

EPA taps Microsoft for mapping help

The agency will use the company's Virtual Earth program to help track environmental data.

Acquisition

Petrillo: Wrong lessons learned

Procurement changes in the 1990s were radical departures from hard-won lessons of the past