Acquisition

Lee joins reconstruction effort

DOD's top procurement official to craft procurement policies for Coalition Provisional Authority

Acquisition

Agriculture Dept. buys Gateway PCs

Gateway gets $24 million for 18,000 desktops and 5,000 notebooks.

Acquisition

Stillman touts performance-based business

The executive officer for the Coast Guard Deepwater program extolled the virtues of so-called performance-based acquisitions.

Acquisition

New products to market

Unleashing industry on federal applications

Acquisition

SmartBuy slow to materialize

What's happened to SmartBuy, lawmaker asks

Acquisition

Resellers try to change with times

Firms provide mixture of products and services

Acquisition

VA names 10 firms on tech support deal

Ten companies will share the Veterans Affairs Department's $3 billion contract for information technology and telecom services.

Acquisition

CSC reports 63 contracts

The company acknowledged $835 million in contracts received since the start of its fiscal second quarter, but not announced until this week.

Acquisition

Resellers try to change with times

It's not just about selling a box anymore ? resellers are trying to add unique features to their offerings.

Acquisition

Acquisition rules changing

New rules could establish share-in-savings rules, streamline payment processes and speed up the purchase of items that protect from chemical and biological weapons.

Acquisition

Impact gets federal windfall

Federal agencies have recently sent more than $70 million in business to Impact Innovations Group

Acquisition

CSC rakes in more BPA bucks than expected

The company has more than doubled its original estimate for the value of a blanket purchase agreement with an unidentified intelligence customer.

Acquisition

Structured empowerment

The loosening of the tyranny of rules that has occurred in the procurement system during the past decade has involved a trade-off.

Acquisition

Congressman sees SmartBuy 'dilemma'

The General Services Administration should get governmentwide software licenses soon or agencies could be forced to spend more money, Rep. Adam Putnam says.

Acquisition

Feds to merge two GWACs, retire others

The General Services Administration will replace two governmentwide acquisition contracts with a single one in 2005.

Acquisition

ITT to run Deep Space Network

NASA will pay ITT up to $580 million over 10 years to support the agency's system of antennas for satellites and interplanetary spacecraft.

Acquisition

Evans touts Energy IT security standard

The benchmark includes more than 250 security configuration recommendations to guide agencies and companies in implementing products.

Acquisition

Gateway supplies DLA computers

The company will provide 25,000 desktop PCs and 12,000 notebook computers to the Defense Logistics Agency.

Acquisition

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Lockheed Martin protests HITS award

The company says it should have won the Housing and Urban Development Department's award for an $860 million technology services contract.