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No guarantees
Commentary: Even under requirements contracts, courts will not let vendors recover lost profits
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Focus on cooperation
Editorial: The true challenge facing the Bush administration and career IT managers will be working together
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Security spending forecast: $6B
Study predicts that by 2008, the government will spend almost $6 billion on information security
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Daniels to deliver A-76 revision
OMB director will release the rewrite of Circular A-76 before he leaves his post next month
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Opposition in union
Commentary: Democrats should shun the scorched-earth procurement policies of the federal unions
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Outsourcing popular internationally
Outsourcing is an increasingly popular practice for governments worldwide, a new study shows
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Deputy FTS commissioner to retire
Charles Self, deputy commissioner of the Federal Technology Service, plans part-time consulting
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Procurement reporting system being replaced
GSA awards $24 million contract for Web-based system
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Convergence is next year's story
Bundled procurements of local and long-distance services will make FTS 2001more useful until Networx is ready
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Cooperative buying rule resolves main obstacles
State and local governments will be able to add items and conditions to GSA schedule contracts
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SARA moves to House
Legislation that would streamline how agencies buy services passed the House Government Reform Committee
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SARA moves to full House
The House Government Reform Committee approved sweeping services acquisition reform
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Cooperative purchasing rule published
State and local governments can use GSA's schedules contracts for IT acquisitions
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GAO upholds protest against USAJobs award
GAO has upheld the protest of a contract awarded for the upgrade of USAJobs
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Cooperative purchasing still not in effect
GSA has not yet published rules that would allow state governments to use federal schedules for information technology purchases
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SARA gets optimistic launch
Proponents of the Services Acquisition Reform Act say they believe the bill has a good chance of passing this time around
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OMB crafts enterprise licensing plan
OMB plans to unveil a strategy to create governmentwide enterprise software licensing agreements
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GSA seeks to boost HUBZone firms
To kick-start the use of a $2.5 billion technology contract for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) firms, the General Services Administration held a workshop April 29 for the 36 companies involve
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