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Savings abound
For $1.3 million in fees, Pennsylvania reaped $8.5 million in savings in 1999 by using online auctions to make purchases ranging from coal for heating, aluminum for making license plates and salt for melting ice on roads.
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Internet, interagency
There is so much talk about estuff these days that one is tempted to cry out 'enough!' However, just as no one today would refer to their TV remote control or cable as 'technology,' we soon will drop the 'e' because that will just be the way things are.
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Postal Service first to try online reverse auctions
The U.S. Postal Service has put its stamp of approval ? at least tentatively ? on online auctions.
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OMB issues A-130 revisions
In the midst of a lawsuit to force federal agencies to make public information more readily available to the public, the Office of Management and Budget has issued revisions to its Circular A130
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Bold new bid
Caterpillar Inc., the bulldozer builder, decided to experiment with an online auction for buying hydraulic parts and watched with glee as the price of stainless steel connectors dropped from 30 cents to 22 cents apiece.
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Intercepts
My Treasury Department snoops report that the department is preparing to deny a protest from a Lotus Development Corp. reseller who claims that his company has not been given a fair shake in supplying an alternative to Microsoft Corp. products.
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E-buys stir small-biz fears
The push for paperless government may do more than eliminate mountains of paper it may exclude small businesses from the procurement process.
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Rx for the digital divide
The Health Resources and Services Administration recently announced the launch of a pilot program that will provide Internetbased medical records for physicians and patients nationwide in HRSAfunded community health centers.
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Feds losing paper chase
Congress wanted to know how well federal agencies are carrying out the 1995 Paperwork Reduction Act, so the General Accounting Office wrote a 20page report. You don't have to read between the lines to learn that results are not good.
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Online training takes off
Tight budgets and lean staffs prompt big investments in computerbased training
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How to operate in 'Netscape time'
Few would argue that the government must become leaner, lighter and more agile to meet the challenges of the Information Age. Dwindling resources and the highspeed nature of electronic business demand that federal agencies adopt industry's most effective tactics.
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Fed-friendly regs
The Office of Personnel Management wants to give feds a break. OPM in February issued proposed regulations that would permit fulltime federal employees to use up to 12 administrative work weeks of sick leave each year to care for a family member with a serious health condition.
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You've come a long way
The framers of the past decade's procurement reforms, which released agencies from old purchasing regulations and bureaucratic red tape, probably couldn't have imagined just how much and how fast government would transform the way it buys information technology.
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IT vacancies add up
The information technology work force's number is up: 843,328 IT positions will go unfilled this year, according to an Information Technology Association of America study.
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Marketers monitor dot-gov sites
NASA's World Wide Web site has seen such an increase in visitors that it seems like everyone got a new computer for Christmas, said NASA Webmaster Brian Dunbar. These days, on any given week, the space agency's site receives about 2 million hits.
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CIA tackles records nightmare
The CIA has embarked upon an agencywide data standardization and systems integration effort after a report by the National Archives and Records Administration found severe weaknesses in the agency's program for preserving key government records.
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