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GSA virtual data center deal sparks agency interest
The General Services Administration's Virtual Data Center Services program awarded to three computer services firms last month has already attracted interest from a number of agencies [FCW Feb. 17]. The data center program offers data processing outsourcing services and is open to all federal agenc
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FEDWIRE
Asset Forfeiture contract draft released T he Justice Department last week released a draft request for proposals for the recompete of its Asset Forfeiture Program Support contract. The $175 million contract which is held by DynCorp and will expire in June 1998 tracks property that numerous federal
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GSA preps local service contracts
The General Services Administration last week announced an aggressive schedule for a series of late summer solicitations for governmentwide local telecom service contracts in New York Chicago and San Francisco. In addition GSA expects to issue requests for proposals for service in an additional 10
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AWARDS
CACI Inc. A $22.5 million award for logistics and automated data processing support for ships to upgrade equipment. U.S. Atlantic Fleet Integrated Logistics Overhaul Activity Portsmouth Va. SRA International Inc. A $12.5 million task order to provide enterprise information systems software support
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V-ONE launches its new federal division
VONE Corp. launched a federal division to hone its focus on the government security products market and solidify relationships with integrators. The Rockville Md.based company announced last week the formation of VONE Government Systems which will be headed by Ken Newcomer formerly director of b
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OMB mulls new limits
Six months after agencies were freed from restrictive federal buying rules government officials and vendors are seeking fresh guidelines for how to manage and make purchases from new multipleagency information technology contracts. Buyers and sellers say they want to preserve the choices agencies
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AT&T outbids GTE for DOD pact
It is hard to outdo a local telephone company in its own market but AT&T Government Markets did exactly that when it beat GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. for a 10year contract to develop and operate an advanced digital network to serve 70 000 Defense Department users in Hawaii. Although billed by the D
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Feds to test security of transactions
The General Services Administration this month kicks off a yearlong test of an encryption project that it hopes will eventually allow participants to conduct secure transactions with the government from personal computers or public kiosks.
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Virtual Data Center Services may melt FAA's ICEMAN
The Federal Aviation Administration may drop plans for a new outsourcing contract in favor of purchasing services through the General Services Administration's recently awarded Virtual Data Center Services program. The FAA's current outsourcing pact Computer Resources Nucleus (Corn) will expire in
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CDSI lands $310M tech support pact under FISSP
The General Services Administration last month awarded a fiveyear $310 million technical support services contract to Computer Data Systems Inc. GSA's Greater Southwest Region based in Fort Worth Texas awarded the governmentwide contract to CDSI under the auspices of the Federal Information System
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Toshiba readies for its desktop product foray
Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. a heavyweight in the federal notebook market is entering the desktop market with Pentium and Pentium Pro models. Toshiba which plans to formally announce its desktop products March 10 recently briefed federal agencies and resellers on its product plans. Indu
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Desktop GIS
Geographic information systems (GIS) combine the analytical power of databases with the geographic capabilities of maps to produce reports that showat a glanceanything from demographic trends to the most appropriate site for a new hospital. GIS programs have long been used by engineers transporta
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Keeping the police out of the office and on the street
With a population of 1.1 million spread across 908 square miles, police officers in Michigan's Oakland County were often in pursuitof paperwork.
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CAN YOU OUTSOURCE IT ALL?
As the cost of providing information technology services escalates and IT budgets shrink local governments are increasingly turning to outside contractors to achieve the efficiency and cost controls they have been unable to produce on their own.
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No more free rides on the community network
Has your jurisdiction been asked to participate in a community network?
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Sylvest claims first TDPI pact
In the first of a series of awards the Treasury Department has selected Sylvest Management Systems Corp. to provide Unixbased workstations and servers under its Treasury Distributed Processing Infrastructure (TDPI) program the followon to the expiring Treasury Multiuser Acquisition Contract. The
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Lockheed Martin, CSC win PTO pact
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Computer Sciences Corp. last week captured the largest IT contract ever awarded at the Patent and Trademark Office the $541 million System Development and Maintenance (SDM) program which will provide system development and maintenance support services for the agency's mi
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Systems integration and the IDIQ tooth fairy
I've reviewed the new laws and regulations laid out some hardearned money to listen to a few pundits read your recent columns and articles about how IDIQ and GSA schedule sales are growing and tried to reengineer my thinking about how to do business with the feds. I now know more than I care to a
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