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Five-pact IT deal on the horizon
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to award five information technology services contracts over the next three years to provide computer systems development maintenance planning and telecommunications support. The EPA plans to use the contracts to buy the same types of services it is purchas
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GSA revises its strategy for Post-FTS 2000
Responding to concerns from Congress and industry the General Services Administration has once again revised its PostFTS 2000 strategy decreasing the length of the contracts and allowing for a second competition in the third or fourth year of the program. A memo circulated to members of the Intera
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GAO to offer dispute resolution for protests
HERSHEY Pa. The General Accounting Office plans to tell agencies this month that it will allow them to request alternative dispute resolution services to avoid involvement in lengthy protest procedures. Ronald Berger associate general counsel for procurement law at GAO said at the Information Res
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AWARDS
Vector Data Systems. A $13.3 million award for engineering and technical services. Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Det. Long Beach Attn: Bid Branch Building 53 Second Floor Long Beach Calif. 908225074. David Sarnoff Research Center Inc. A $781 000 award for a highperformance metacomputing reso
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AGENDA
SEPTEMBER 9 10 Internet Law Symposium 96. Seattle University School of Law. Seattle.Call (206) 2369559 World Wide Web www.internetlaw.org.911 Connect 96: The Global Summit on Building Electronic Communities. Cubberley Auditorium Stanford University. Stanford Calif. Point your Web browser to www.
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Dell unveils Pentium Pro servers
Dell Computer Corp. will unveil today a new entrylevel server the first in a series of announcements designed to replace the company's entire server line with Pentium Probased systems before the end of the year. Dell reports that federal sales of its current Pentiumbased servers have more than d
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ROSTER
The Office of Management and Budget has appointed the following people to serve on the Government Information Technology Services Board: John Cavallini (Energy Department) Mary Ellen Condon (Justice Department) Patricia Edfors (Treasury Department) James Flyzik (Treasury Department) Gayle Gordon (I
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How does GAO review bid protests?
A company official asked the following questions: Now that the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals has lost its bid protest jurisdiction companies are taking a new look at the General Accounting Office as one of the few forums in which they can obtain an independent review o
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Novell adds imaging technology to GroupWise 5
Novell Inc. said last month that it will provide imaging technology with the new version of its GroupWise software package joining other groupware vendors who are adding scanning and imageviewing features to their offerings. The company said GroupWise 5 will incorporate technology from Xerox Deskt
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Island-hopping in cyberspace
Do you have endofthefiscalyear burnout? Tap into the World Wide Web to do some armchair islandhopping. This tour of federal island Web sites will take you far away with just a few key strokes. Start with Diego Garcia a remote atoll in the Chagos Archipelago located north of Mauritius and east
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CBD WATCH
Federal Computer Acquisition Center. Fedsim's Virtual Data Center Services (formerly Fedsim's Data Center Service) Fedcac Project 111. (CBD Sept. 3) Sol. KRF96011. As of Aug. 26 the request for proposals as well as the prequalification instruction letter have been placed on hold until further no
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Tips for tracking silent updates
Are you doing your maintenance? How long has it been since you freshened your files? Those users who have standardized on Microsoft Office may need one or more of the "silent updates" that Microsoft Corp. puts on its support network of World Wide Web and file transfer protocol (ftp) sites and its
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Air Force pans ZDS tardiness
The Air Force has run into delivery problems with Zenith Data Systems on more than 10 percent of the orders placed on that company's Desktop V PC contract and has put its longtime contractor on notice to fix them. Ken Heitkamp technical director of the Air Force Standard Systems Group Montgomery Al
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Intercepts
WWMCCS hammered. DISA shut down the aging mainframebased command and control system on Aug. 30 and the agency's GCCS team headed by Rear Adm. John Gauss received a Hammer Award from Vice President Al Gore last week. No word on what DISA plans to do with the mainframes but the Interceptor figures R
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AF team earns Hammer Award
Directed by a presidential order to streamline the declassification process for secret documents the Air Force realized it first had to bring some order to its classification system which involved more than 600 paperclassification guides ranging from 30 to more than 100 pages each. An Air Force te
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Vendors criticize proposed language in FARA regulations
A group of vendors who last year opposed a law that gives contracting officers more leeway to choose competitors in a procurement is now objecting to regulations designed to carry out the statute. Jody Olmer director of domestic policy with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said there are "big problems
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Midrange Pentium PCs are hot buy of summer
PC resellers and vendors believe they have found the sweet spot in the summer buying season: 133 MHz and 166 MHz Pentium machines. Industry executives report that federal agencies consider mid to highrange Pentiums to have the best price/performance edge. Pentium 133 MHz PCs have dipped below the
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Experience, business savvy drive Vets Benefits' CIO
Despite his rise to the upper reaches of government management Newell Quinton chief information officer at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) is one of the most unassuming federal executives one is likely to meet. But what ultimately comes through after a meeting with Quinton is the breadth
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Federal Bytes
Acronym acrimony What's in a name? Tradition and power if you're in the Navy and are used to being called the CIO. We hear there's a spat going on between Rear Adm. Kendell Pease who directs the Navy's main public relations office (CHINFO) and Marv Langston the deputy assistant secretary of the Na
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