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GSA adds BorderWare, Alacritech
BorderWare Technologies and Alacritech earn places on the GSA schedule
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New procurement rule draws fire
A new rule says companies that repeatedly violate federal tax, labor, safety, environment and antitrust laws shouldn't be awarded government contracts
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NIH follows up with CIO-SP 2
CIOSP 2, potentially worth $19.5 billion, provides agencies the opportunity to outsource IT services and support to 48 vendors
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Qwest protests bridge contracts
Qwest has filed a protest with GSA, claiming that FTS 2000/2001 bridge contracts awarded to AT?#038; Amp;T and Sprint Corp. were not contested fairly
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GAO guides Coast Guard on IT
The Coast Guard needs to work harder to execute the policies and procedures it sets for managing its IT acquisitions and programs
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Industry Watch
The Bureau of the Public Debt awarded a contract Dec. 4 worth up to $7 million for offtheshelf financial software from Oracle Corp.
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Bureau buys financial software
The Bureau of the Public Debt awarded a contract worth up to $7 million for offtheshelf financial software from Oracle
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Unisys to help with GSA pilot
Unisys has signed a contract to help with a pilot sales force management application for GSA's Federal Technology Service
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eFederal wins place on GSA schedule
Products from eFederal Systems Inc. will be available on a Federal Supply Service schedule
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Guidance coming on FSS services
Two years after information technology services became available to agencies on the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service schedule contracts, GSA is moving to provide regulatory guidance on how to buy those services.
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Purchasing in Internet time
Of all the influences transforming the information technology buying process for state and local government officials, a key yet frequently overlooked factor is the sharply increased speed at which most IT service vendors are now accustomed to doing business.
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The art of the deal
Otto Doll, director of South Dakota's Bureau of Information and Telecommunications, has a way to get buy-in on technology issues from skeptical lawmakers.
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Eye on performance
Well, as might be expected, the contracting community has stepped out front again. When fiscal 2001 began a few months ago, federal agencies began gathering data on a series of contracting performance measures agreed on for the entire government for each year.
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Open minds on open source
NASA programmers might raise a few eyebrows by converting their electronic posting system for business opportunities from an Oracle Corp. relational database to an open source counterpart, mySQL.
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Firms say 'blacklisting' regs still onerous
Companies seeking federal contracts are cautiously ? and unhappily ? awaiting word on a change to contracting regulations they say could lead to protests and delays
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Customs primed for contractor
The Customs Service expects to seek a prime contractor within the next six months for its $1.4 billion modernization program, the agency's CIO says
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Letters to the Editor
That Steve Kelman should toe the contractor line comes as no surprise ('TRAC should be derailed,' Federal Computer Week, Nov. 6, 2000). After all, he testified in 1998 in favor of the infamous Freedom from Government Competition Act, which would have competed 1.4 million federal employee jobs over five years under a manifestly procontractor system.
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CDW-G adds Apple to its cart
CDWG has added Apple's entire line of products to its General Services Administration schedule
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