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Vendor data gets user-friendly
When contracting officers or members of a source selection committee need to find out about a potential vendor’s quality of work on previous contracts, collecting the data often is a challenge. But the process is about to change. Three agencies are working with the General Services Administration and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to create a central past-performance records database for use governmentwide. NIH’s Diane Frasier says more than 100 agencies are expected to use a new system providing access to past-performance information.<@SM>
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Homeland IT team filling up
Transition Planning Office team will determine how IT can best serve the proposed Homeland Security Department
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NMCI reaches key milestone
The 20,000-seat mark signifies the official start of the monitoring of service-level agreements
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Miller joins Homeland transition
FEMA's chief information officer becomes a member of the administration's Transition Planning Office
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Calif. gets funds from its nonfilers
Fourteen million Californians file their state tax returns voluntarily, but the ones who don’t file keep Cathy Cleek and her team busy. Cleek is director of the Franchise Tax Board’s nonfiler program.
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Cyber Corps funding boosted
The supplemental funding bill signed this month included $19.3 million for the Scholarship for Service program
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Middleware anchors INS’ information architecture
The Immigration and Naturalization Service views middleware as the linchpin in its strategy to integrate the nation's border control systems.
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Standards for grant portal drafted
Draft issued of proposed data standards for agencies posting grant opportunities on FedBizOpps.gov
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EPA looks to unify states with CDX
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Information Collection Office, which is managing the rollout and expansion of the agency's Central Data Exchange (CDX) portal, knows the Web is the route to take for the portal’s next step. Now, the agency is looking for the right technology to pave the way.
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TSA issues first IT work orders
The Transportation Security Administration has awarded the first two work orders for its IT infrastructure
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VBA links offices on virtual network
The Veterans Benefits Administration is linking regional offices to improve the customer service offered by its call centers.
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Military maps out homeland help
The military services are finishing a proposal to define technologies and processes that could support homeland security
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Missing Centcom laptops found
DOD has recovered two laptop computers that were taken from a 'tightly controlled' area
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Roster Change
Daryl White, the Interior Department's former chief information officer, will retire from the federal government Aug. 15
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Army sets up battle for WIN-T
The Army awarded contracts that will let two vendor teams battle it out for the multibillion-dollar tactical intranet
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Annual leave no contest
Bureaucratus column: Can a fed be removed if he has years' worth of leave left?
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CSC shuffles homeland security lineup
Computer Sciences Corp. is reorganizing its federal business units and sharpening its strategies to attract new business in the federal homeland security market
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IRS tests database, sets free-filing deal
The IRS has begun testing the Customer Account Data Engine, the database management system that will replace the nearly 40-year-old Master File and Integrated Data Retrieval System.
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