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The Bureau of the Public Debt awarded a contract Dec. 4 worth up to $7 million for offtheshelf financial software from Oracle Corp.
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Navy e-business proposals pour in
In less than two months, the Navy eBusiness Operations Office has received more than 300 proposals requesting funding for ebusiness pilot projects
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General adds voice to seat management
During the AFCEA conference in Honolulu, an Air Force fourstar general gave the service's strongest public endorsement yet to seat management
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DOD procurement chief: Just deliver
Getting the product to the warfighter is key in contracting, according to Deidre Lee, director of procurement at the Defense Department
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E-gov leads IT spending forecast
Federal spending on egovernment is likely to increase by 10 percent a year for the next five years, a Virginia market research firm says
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Army splits protest decision
The Army has handed down a split decision in a protest of a $1.4 billion program award and may reopen bidding on part of the project
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Unisys to help with GSA pilot
Unisys has signed a contract to help with a pilot sales force management application for GSA's Federal Technology Service
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Bureau buys financial software
The Bureau of the Public Debt awarded a contract worth up to $7 million for offtheshelf financial software from Oracle
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Navy awards reverse-auction contracts
Naval Supply Systems Command officials tapped two vendors for software and services to support reverse auctions
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eFederal wins place on GSA schedule
Products from eFederal Systems Inc. will be available on a Federal Supply Service schedule
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Turning over control
The information technology services the National Security Agency plans to outsource to a private contractor under its Project Groundbreaker contract include:
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Breaking the mold
The National Security Agency readies a mega IT outsourcing pact in hopes of retooling its backoffice information systems
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DOD site open for A-76
The Defense Department unveiled a Web site Dec. 1 designed to help with the often contentious A76 competition process.
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Gateway discounts to Indiana
In a collaboration that could benefit half of Indiana's residents, the state government and Gateway Inc. recently announced that the company will sell affordable computers and Internet access to educators, students and state employees.
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Firms say 'blacklisting' regs still onerous
Companies seeking federal contracts are cautiously ? and unhappily ? awaiting word on a change to contracting regulations they say could lead to protests and delays
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Open minds on open source
NASA programmers might raise a few eyebrows by converting their electronic posting system for business opportunities from an Oracle Corp. relational database to an open source counterpart, mySQL.
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Eye on performance
Well, as might be expected, the contracting community has stepped out front again. When fiscal 2001 began a few months ago, federal agencies began gathering data on a series of contracting performance measures agreed on for the entire government for each year.
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