Contracts/Awards
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The bill to repeal a requirement that governments withhold some payments to vendors would add more than $11 billion to the deficit, according the Congressional Budget Office. A key House committee has already passed the bill.
October 18, 2011 -
Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have asked the Defense Department to review its ANC contracts and to provide detailed reports on all contracts more than $20 million that went to small businesses in the last five years.
October 18, 2011 -
Host Mark Amtower is joined by Ellen Hemmerly, executive director of BWTech at the UMBC Research and Technology Park, and Capitol College President and CEO Mike Wood. October 17, 2011(Encore presentation November 28, 2011)
October 17, 2011 -
Two vendors found success in the claim that GSA was unfair in requiring data centers to be housed only in Trade Agreements Act designated countries. GAO also said GSA was ambiguous in its security requirements for cloud data centers. But the vendors lost on their protest of GSA\'s requirement for a \"government-only\" cloud.
October 17, 2011 -
Senator Jay Rockefeller and a group of seven other senators said they want Deputy Secretary Ash Carter to change how the DoD buys metal for military vehicles.
October 17, 2011 -
General Dynamics IT engineers will help ensure the security of DIA information and defend the agency\'s computer networks. The company still needs to hire an additional 80 employees to support the contract.
October 17, 2011 -
DoD has officially canceled efforts to develop a radio that could transmit broadband data on the battlefield after the costs skyrocketed. The Pentagon had earlier slashed the number it planned to buy from 82,000 to 10,000.
October 17, 2011 -
Steve Kempf, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss new efforts at more efficient print management.
October 17, 2011 -
Host Derrick Dortch is joined by ClearanceJobs.com Founder and Director Evan Lesser. October 21, 2011
October 14, 2011 -
The Pentagon says the program costs too much to keep it going.
October 14, 2011 -
A Senate committee is recommending the super committee consider one more year of a federal pay freeze, increases to retirement contributions and a 15 percent cut to contracting at agencies.
October 14, 2011 -
A proposed rule would ask contractors to track the training received by employees who work on federal systems.
October 14, 2011 -
IBM has won a contract to create a machine that can hear and speak in many languages. The $6.5 million contract came from the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency.
October 14, 2011 -
Unisys received a materials task order to provide support services to the Centers for Disease Control\'s Information Technology Services Office, according to a Unisys release.
October 14, 2011 -
The Homeland Security Department proposed a rule that would prohibit employees in certain DHS components from participating in certain outside jobs and activities. By drafting the proposals, DHS leaders are trying to prevent perceptions of conflicts of interest.
October 13, 2011