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Lockheed wins DOD integration contract
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems nabbed a $46 million blanket purchase agreement to provide systems integration services for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Corporate Information Infrastructure, the company announced Thursday.
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Federal union questions price tag of Army logistics pact
Official documents delivered to Congress just days before the Army awarded a $681 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. for the Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program (WLMP) place the total cost of the program at $533 million $148 million less than CSC's winning bid.
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GSA releases smart card solicitation
The General Services Administration released the longawaited solicitation for the governmentwide Smart Access Common ID Card program that will provide a single vehicle for agencies to buy smart card products and services.
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NASA headquarters selects SAIC to provide desktop services
NASA has awarded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Information Services, Vienna, Va., a threeyear $20.1 million contract to provide information technology services to NASA headquarters under the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA (ODIN).
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Revolution or evolution?
I recently ran across an article in The Financial Times with the headline 'Revolution? What Revolution?'
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Hamre announces departure from Pentagon
John Hamre, who put the clout of his office behind information technology policies, issues and causes during his term as deputy secretary of Defense, will leave the Pentagon March 31 to become president and chief executive officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
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11 vendors win call center contracts
The General Services Administration has signed agreements with 11 vendors to offer call center management services to federal agencies.
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AMS, Ariba team for e-procurement
In what may be the first of many deals like it, integrator American Management Systems Inc. and Internet commerce vendor Ariba Inc. have teamed up to provide a complete electronic procurement solution to federal government users.
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Desktop outsourcer brings help desk in-house
Bucking a trend that is key to its own business livelihood, an outsourcing contractor on NASA's seat management contract is bringing its helpdesk operation back inhouse to improve service for its federal customers.
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Financial Software: Adding up the Cost of Public Services
Providing a true picture of the cost of government services has long been the holy grail of state and local government finance departments.
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Future Shop
If desktop information technology is becoming a commodity, then there's one golden rule: The more you buy, the less expensive it gets. Individual states are finding that out by combining agency procurements.
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Blizzard of awards in 30-day forecast
Although the holiday season traditionally is a quiet one in the nation's capital the next month could be busy for information technology procurement offices with agencies scheduled to award more than a dozen large IT contracts with a combined value approaching $10 billion.
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CIOs mull plan to rein inmaverick agency buys
In what may be the first pullback from largescale procurement reform the Office of Management and Budget is considering regulations that will prohibit agencies from embarking on a procurement if the purchase would threaten other agencies from obtaining low prices through volumediscounted buys.
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Overhaul of blue pages to help users
The General Services Administration is moving closer to updating government listings in all local telephone books around the country in an effort that should make populating the X.500 governmentwide directory blue pages faster and easier. The goal of the blue pages project is to provide a more user
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GTSI retools for changing market
Government Technology Services Inc. in the midst of a major makeover under the watch of chief executive officer Dendy Young this winter will expand its business beyond the namebrand PC market and reposition itself for new opportunities in the federal market. During the next several months GTSI pla
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Network buy pared in favor of governmentwide pacts
The National Institutes of Health has scaled back a network procurement thought to be worth about $70 million and instead plans to purchase much of the equipment software and services it needs from other contracts. 'It would be silly to duplicate something that's already been done " said John Dick
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EPA plans $8.5M Notes purchase
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to spend $8.5 million on Lotus Development Corp.'s Notes groupware product during the next five years. As part of the deal which Lotus announced two weeks ago EPA expects to buy licenses for more than 18 000 Notes clients. EPA is expanding its use of Notes
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It's official: GTE wins wireless pact
Capping off a 27month effort the General Services Administration this month awarded a $300 million nationwide contract for cellular telecommunications services a move designed to cut most federal users' cellular bills by up to 60 percent. The award is the first in a series of PostFTS 2000 contrac
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FBI buy may be bid to influence market
The FBI is negotiating with AT&T to purchase a security product that soon will have keyrecovery abilities sources said. Some observers consider the move an attempt to boost the market for encryption products that would make it easier for law enforcement agencies to access suspects' protected data.
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