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FDIC online auction pilot soars
Bid4Assets has completed a $12 million loan sale for the FDIC, its largest online transaction for a federal customer
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Site delivers good deals on grub
Direct2Government.com helps food manufacturers target the public sector with excess inventories, special pricing and Internet exclusives
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Sorting keys to reform
The Office of Management and Budget is developing a plan to refine the federal procurement process, keyed to recommendations from a yearlong governmentwide study handed to the agency last month.
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GSA, Gateway settle dispute
A settlement over Gateway Inc.'s alleged failure to extend price reductions to its contract with the General Services Administration has industry groups and analysts calling for removal of the requirement, saying it is out of date.
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Census counts on Entrust tools
The Census Bureau has selected Entrust Technologies' software to provide desktop security for its field workforce of more than 4,000 people
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Army scouting for biometrics
The Army is seeking commercial sources for security products and services to support all of DOD's biometrics needs
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A confusing purchase policy
In 1998, the General Services Administration established a commercial purchase card program called SmartPay to give federal employees the functional equivalent of a credit card.
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Wanted: Procurement ideas
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is looking for new ideas about contracting methods.
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DARPA fuels security R&D
DARPA has awarded four contracts to Secure Computing Corp., pumping more than $6 million into research and development for secure networks
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OFPP calls for fresh procurement ideas
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is looking for ways agencies can work with contractors to improve the federal government's business arrangements
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State climbs into seat management
In a first for the State Department, the agency's Office of Foreign Buildings Operations is outsourcing the management of its PC networks
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Federal IT forecast: Healthy through 2005
GEIA forecasts that the federal government's fiscal 2001 expenditures for IT will be $38.9 billion and will grow 1.7 percent annually through 2005
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IBM wins Energy financial systems contract
The agency will be able to integrate budgeting, finance and accounting, procurement, human resources, asset management and logistics
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Chicago automating water department workflow
The city has chosen SCT to consolidate the department's billing, repairs, debt collection and other services
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NASA plans fluid SEWP III contract
The next iteration of NASA's contract is focused on keeping systems interoperable while encouraging the use of emerging systems throughout the life of the contract
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Navy intranet sets sail
The massive Navy intranet project, awarded this month to Electronic Data Systems Corp., could be a model followed by the rest of the Defense Department and federal civilian agencies, Navy and industry officials said.
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GSA splits security, contracting
The General Services Administration has officially folded the contracting functions of the Federal Technology Service's Office of Information Security into FTS' Office of Information Technology Solutions.
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Clinton order gives small biz federal boost
President Clinton issued an executive order this month to boost small and disadvantaged businesses' share of the federal contracting market and to emphasize agencies' individual responsibilities.
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