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Evening the Odds
The combination of increasingly complex technologies and increases in IT spending poses a dilemma for state and local buyers as they try to maintain the right mix of technical expertise and business management skills throughout the IT procurement process.
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USDA competes with private data centers
Chances are that if you contract with a third-party data center, it's going to be one that is owned and operated by a private company. Not always though.
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Making business sense
Deidre Lee, who will be leaving her post as administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in June to become director of Defense procurement, has long believed that contracting professionals need to rethink the role they play in the interaction between government and vendors.
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FreeMarkets, AMS Focus on Public Sector
FreeMarkets Inc., an online auction marketplace, has joined forces with American Management Systems Inc. to create a public-sector procurement venture.
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Vendors open data centers for hire
Up and down the Dulles corridor in Northern Virginia, numerous unmarked, warehousetype buildings are nestled among hotels, office parks and fastfood restaurants. In the past, such a sight in the Washington area would have signaled a classified government office. But today, it's just as likely to be one of the many commercially owned buildings where government networks are maintained.
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Commerce commits to desktop outsourcing
Agency to kick off pilot project by selecting a vendor from a small business services contract
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Purchase card fees pinch vendor profits
The government purchase card, which has become big business over the past several years, is proving to be too much of a good thing for some computer companies.
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Card fees a tough sell
The amount of goods bought by federal employees wielding government purchase cards is soaring: $10.2 billion worth in fiscal 1999, with an expected increase of 20 percent in fiscal 2000.
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Georgia shopping for telephony system
The state is running a series of Internet telephony lab trials to determine which company and system will best suit its needs
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CSC wins integration contract
$50 million award from GSA will buy strategic planning, requirement analysis, system design and integration
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Comsat signs $60 million federal satellite deal
The sixyear contract covers the company's fixed and mobile satellite services but allows for new offerings when they become available
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Online auction plan gains momentum
Site would sell surplus collected from sources such as drug bust property seizures, assets from housing foreclosures and overstocked government inventories
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Attention shoppers: E-Mall expanding
Intelisys selected to lead the growth of Massachusetts's multistate procurement effort
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GSA readies online auction site
The agency hopes to launch an online auction site by next month that will make it easier for agencies to buy IT
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IRS deal eases load
Electronic software delivery is a hit at the Internal Revenue Service.
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GSA call center BPA winners
GSA's Telephone and Internet Customer Contact Systems and Solutions blanket purchase aggreement
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OFPP set to launch online "Yellow Pages"
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is raising concerns in government and industry with its plans to launch a Web site listing products and services available on multiagency contracts.
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USAID taps AMS for financial software
The U.S. Agency for International Development on Thursday awarded American Management Systems Inc. a potential 10-year contract to install and support a global financial management system.
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