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FAR interim rule spells out Year 2000 compliance
The General Services Administration last week issued an interim rule that elevates its "recommended" Year 2000 warranty language to the level of a governmentwide regulation. The interim rule is contained in a new Federal Acquisition Regulation Federal Acquisition Circular 45. The interim rule eff
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ROSTER
Claudia Bennett assistant commissioner for strategic and program planning at the General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service withdrew her application for retirement last month and will begin this month on detail at GSA's Office of Personnel. She will serve as acting directo
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Product leasing gains ground in fed market
Information technology leasing a popular strategy in the commercial market for many years is emerging as an option for agencies faced with budget constraints and rapidly changing technology. To date IT leasing has been used sparingly if at all in the federal sector. In the commercial market leasing
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DOE spurns GSA cell pact
The Energy Department has issued a request for technical proposals for agencywide cellular service turning its back on a recently awarded General Services Administration wireless contract designed to cut most federal users' cellular bills by more than half.
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Agencies find Year 2000 tools market still growing
Over the last year federal agencies have become acutely aware that the approaching millennium Year 2000 may wreak havoc with software programs and cause untold headaches throughout their organizations. As these agencies scramble to fix Year 2000 problems they will find the tools market is eithe
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Portable-2 protested
International Data Products Corp. and Commax Corp. late last month protested the Army's Portable2 contract a development that could delay shipments under that program for months. IDP delivered a protest against the $236 million Portable2 contract the day before Christmas with Commax Corp. filing
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IT not tied to budgets
The Defense Department still fails to include in its plans for new information technology projects an accompanying budget to pay for the new systems DOD comptroller John Hamre said last month. In a speech to the Washington chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Hamre
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LA Unveils Criminal History Reporting System
Los Angeles County law enforcement officers will have access to an extensive new criminal history database
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Army trims field to four
The Army cut at least four bidders from the competition for its Portable2 contract including industry leader Compaq Computer Corp. industry sources said last week. The downselect leaves a field of four companies vying for the $150 millionplus prize: Comax Technologies Inc. Government Technology
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Tenn. Taps Library System Vendor
Tennessee recently selected Auto-Graphics Inc., Pomona, Calif., to design and operate a Web-based library catalog and inter-library loan system
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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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Navy to move $850M in services to BPAs
The Naval Information Systems Management Center has recast an $850 million indefinitedelivery indefinitequantity services procurement into what may be the government's largest servicesoriented blanket purchase agreement. NISMC is close to issuing a request for quotation for multiple BPAs accordi
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Exhibitions and rules on the Web
For those who plan to leave the Washington metropolitan area during the holiday season but fear they will miss the area's rich cultural offerings check out the new World Wide Web site of the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
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Patriot offers NT-based product on GSA sked
Patriot Technologies Inc. has won an exclusive General Services Administration contract to offer one of the first Microsoft Corp. Windows NT firewalls that also includes ActiveX protection. Gaithersburg Md.based Patriot will provide Global Internet's Centri Firewall 3.1.1 a security product specif
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Report blasts Mac replacement
The chief information officer at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center did not follow agency policy and may have negatively affected space flight mission and safety when he issued an order to replace the center's Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh workstations with PCs that run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
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Intergraph targets feds
Intergraph Corp. is pursuing federal opportunities with a recently recast document management product line designed to improve the organization and distribution of an agency's technical information. Intergraph in September changed the name of its document management suite from DM2 to Asset and Info
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FSS to use Internet as sales reporting tool
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service next year will turn to the Internet to smooth the process by which schedule vendors report their quarterly sales.
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