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USPS taps Northrop to analyze systems
The Postal Service wants independent verification and validation services for its delivery and retail systems.
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Treasury awards AT&T $270 million Networx task order
The department awarded AT&T a similar contract almost three years ago.
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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.
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EPA taps Microsoft for mapping help
The agency will use the company's Virtual Earth program to help track environmental data.
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Petrillo: Wrong lessons learned
Procurement changes in the 1990s were radical departures from hard-won lessons of the past
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Editorial: A Sun mess
The long-festering battle between Sun Microsystems and the government about allegations that the company overcharged agencies needs to end.
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Sun cancels its GSA schedule
Experts vary on how Sun’s long dispute with GSA could affect schedule program
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Security convergence means seeing the big picture
Employees who work in separate departments of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service regularly come together to discuss security convergence: bringing together building and network security operations.
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Convergence is more than buzz
GSA seeks to revamp schedules to reflect merging of physical and computer security
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Sun pulls out of GSA schedules contract
Sun officials said the company will remain a federal contractor, but won't have a GSA MAS contract.
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Wagner: Year-end spending
Deadlines for submitting acquisition requests are coming earlier each year, so be forewarned.
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Colorado town fields video surveillance system
Parker tapped CDW-G for motion-activated cameras that cover the Parker Fieldhouse.
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Alliant protests won't slow GSA, officials say
Companies filed five new bid protests, but the agency said they won't have a major effect because other GWACs are still in place.
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Consolidation changes the game
Consequences of governmentwide initiatives alter the federal contracting landscape.
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FCW's Federal List: 10 organizations worth watching
We chose these 10 for their innovation and growth, and for being bellwethers of change in the government IT community.
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Alaska native awards will count toward small-biz goals
A size rule change will let prime contractors count subcontracts to such firms as small-business and small disadvantaged business awards "even where the ANC or Indian tribe may be 'other than small'" under SBA regulations.
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Gulf Coast businesses get boost from GSA
A new directive streamlines the process for awarding recovery contracts to local small businesses in the area Hurricane Katrina devastated two years ago.
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