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Company 'leapfrogs' onto GSA schedule
Crucial Technology reached an agreement with Leapfrog Smart Products that enables Crucial's memory products to be listed on the GSA schedule
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Commerce starting over with Commits
The Commerce Department has suspended an estimated $1.5 billion governmentwide information technology services contract and has asked interested vendors to revise and resubmit their proposals.
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Not so 'reverse' auctions
I've been hearing a lot about the government's various experiments with 'reverse auction' purchasing techniques. In reverse auctions, sellers 'bid' against one another for specific orders by offering successively lower prices until a winner is declared.
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NASA pact attracts dot-coms
The upcoming followon to NASA's popular Science and Engineering Workstation Procurement is already attracting a new breed of potential competitors: dotcom startups that hope to take electronic procurement to the next level.
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Online selling can get complicated
FCW's DotGov Thursday column offers guidance for creating binding contracts that will be executed over the Internet
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NASA dishing up SEWP III
NASA plans to release a draft solicitation by the end of June for a second followon to its popular Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement contract
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NIH to open bidding on major IT contracts
Bidding opens July 3 for CIOSP 2, a $10 billion program, and Image World, a $15 billion program
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Online market set to go
FedBid.com, which combines online credit card purchasing and reverse auction technology to give agencies a new way to make small purchases, opens for business today.
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Learn to share
Almost anyone can talk the talk, but the General Services Administration and other agencies are walking the walk with shareinsavings contracting pilots.
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Agencies embrace credit cards
Agencies' use of government credit cards is on the rise, with sales estimated to exceed $16 billion this fiscal year
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Small-biz goals easier to reach
Agencies that do business with 8(a) companies on the GSA schedule now can get automatic credit toward meeting their 8(a) goals
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Making 'mandatory' work
One of the characteristic features of the old order prior to procurement reform was the frequent requirement to buy computers from mandatory sources, such as the General Services Administration.
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Conn. simplifies tech buying
Whether they're dealing with the most tech-savvy buyers or an uninitiated first-time vendor seeking to learn how the IT procurement process works, the recurring theme of new programs launched by Connecticut's Department of Information Technology (DOIT) is to make IT buying easier.
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GSA makes auction bid
The General Services Administration is testing the power of the marketplace with a reverse auction pilot that will allow government buyers to drive down the prices of goods by purchasing them online.
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Vendors stick with air traffic control system
The vendor teams of ARINC Inc. and Lockheed Martin Corp. will continue to the next level of competition for an automated oceanic air traffic control system
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Contracts in fed enclaves
Many contracts with the federal government require that some or all of the work must take place on government property
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Funneling federal business to women
President Clinton's executive order released last week requires agencies to award 5 percent of all contracts to small, womanowned businesses by:
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Clinton order boosts women's businesses
President Clinton signed an executive order last week ordering agencies to meet specific goals in awarding contracts to small businesses owned by women, but the mandate alone may not encourage compliance, according to federal information technology experts.
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Clinton boosts women-owned biz
President Clinton signed an executive order to encourage agencies to meet their contracting goals for small businesses owned by women
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