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Site delivers good deals on grub
Direct2Government.com helps food manufacturers target the public sector with excess inventories, special pricing and Internet exclusives
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Navy restricts IT buys
Beginning this month, Navy Department contracting chiefs must assess and pass along to senior officials any waivers for information technology buys that fall outside the Navy's massive intranet program.
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Orkand's e-gov options on one contract
Orkand Corp. has been approved for FSS' Corporate Contract, enabling the company to offer its array of egovernment services through a single channel
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GSA, Gateway settle dispute
A settlement over Gateway Inc.'s alleged failure to extend price reductions to its contract with the General Services Administration has industry groups and analysts calling for removal of the requirement, saying it is out of date.
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Sorting keys to reform
The Office of Management and Budget is developing a plan to refine the federal procurement process, keyed to recommendations from a yearlong governmentwide study handed to the agency last month.
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Census counts on Entrust tools
The Census Bureau has selected Entrust Technologies' software to provide desktop security for its field workforce of more than 4,000 people
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Army scouting for biometrics
The Army is seeking commercial sources for security products and services to support all of DOD's biometrics needs
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Wanted: Procurement ideas
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is looking for new ideas about contracting methods.
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A confusing purchase policy
In 1998, the General Services Administration established a commercial purchase card program called SmartPay to give federal employees the functional equivalent of a credit card.
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Teams map DOD paperless procurement
The Defense Department has teams in place to guide the implementation of DOD's endtoend paperless procurement process
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OFPP calls for fresh procurement ideas
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is looking for ways agencies can work with contractors to improve the federal government's business arrangements
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DARPA fuels security R&D
DARPA has awarded four contracts to Secure Computing Corp., pumping more than $6 million into research and development for secure networks
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Air Force stresses strategy over IT
Setting up a new electronic procurement system for the Air Force isn't about IT, it's about a procurement strategy that uses IT
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Federal IT forecast: Healthy through 2005
GEIA forecasts that the federal government's fiscal 2001 expenditures for IT will be $38.9 billion and will grow 1.7 percent annually through 2005
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State climbs into seat management
In a first for the State Department, the agency's Office of Foreign Buildings Operations is outsourcing the management of its PC networks
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Chicago automating water department workflow
The city has chosen SCT to consolidate the department's billing, repairs, debt collection and other services
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IBM wins Energy financial systems contract
The agency will be able to integrate budgeting, finance and accounting, procurement, human resources, asset management and logistics
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The secret to success
For Lawrence Delaney, who fills two of the highest civilian positions in the Air Force, it helps to have Zenlike wisdom and intuition.
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