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The Postal Service has begun contract negotiations with the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. Last week USPS said it would ask Congress to let it break union contracts in order to lay off workers and take control of its health care and retirement plans.
Two big stories this week in the cloud computing arena being covered by Federal News Radio. Two firms protest GSA’s email cloud RFP The General Services Administration’s $2.5 billion email-as-a-service contract is under protest. The two vendors filing the pre-solicitation protests said GSA’s requirement to have a government-only cloud is a “restrictive specification” and therefore [...]
Your agency’s 2013 budget request must cut at least 5 percent in discretionary spending compared with this year. OMB says agencies must also submit a version of their 2013 budgets that shows options for cutting…
Analysis from: Jonathan Breul, executive director, IBM Center for the Business of Government Doug Davidson, director in the Global Public Sector Practice at Grant Thornton, and the publisher of the Federal Financial Management News blog, FedCFO.com.
David Maurer, director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at GAO, explains why FPS is out of time and money.
The nine biggest contractors make more than 70 percent of their revenue from the federal government.
An immigration application processing center in Texas is in hot water after staffers accessed their bosses\' emails, NextGov reports.
Kevin Connelly is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw. He has chaired the firm\'s government contracts practice group since 2002.
Debra Filippi is a former federal employee and is now a Principal Consultant at Suss Consulting.
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel detailed in a memo what agencies must do to reduce the number of agency websites. He extended the freeze on new dot-gov domains through Dec. 31.
Bewtra also shares what he thinks agencies can to do make doing business with government easier.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order giving leaders 90 days to come up with a governmentwide plan to increase diversity in hiring and retention. Agencies will have four more months to craft their own strategies for making progress.
GAO will decide the complaints by Oct. 17. Both companies say GSA\'s request for proposal is unfair because of its requirement for a government-only cloud.
Agencies must submit 2013 budget requests that cut at least 5 percent in spending in discretionary spending compared with this year. Agencies must also submit a version of their 2013 budgets that shows options for cutting an additional 5 percent, or a total of 10 percent, below discretionary spending for this year.