General Services Administration
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The General Services Administration on Oct. 16 released a 15-year, $50 billion telecommunications solicitation as the follow-on to the Networx contract. GSA hopes to avoid the mistakes it made with Networx with the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle.
October 19, 2015 -
Federal CIOs are unsure of the value of the new platform-as-a-service from GSA's 18F, but are interested in learning more. Meanwhile, industry and other CIOs are concerned about unfair competition.
October 19, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s new guidance prohibits civilian agencies from buying computers off any contract except from one of three governmentwide acquisition contracts.
October 16, 2015 Sonny Hashmi, managing director, Global Government at Box, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his new company, Box, is helping agencies with their move to the cloud. October 20, 2015
October 15, 2015-
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung and Tom Sharpe, the commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, say category management now is a cross-agency priority goal with a focus on saving money and reducing contracts.
October 14, 2015 -
Darren Blue is heading over to the Veterans Affairs Department after spending the last seven years at GSA. The FDIC gets a new CIO and NNSA a new chief learning officer.
October 12, 2015 -
A year in the making, the General Services Administration launched a consolidated professional services schedule contract on Oct. 1 to merge eight multiple award contracts into one.
October 12, 2015 -
David Shive, the GSA chief information officer, said encouraging more employees to take advantage of the virtual desktop interface (VDI) technology, and modernizing and rationalizing applications are the next steps to improve the agency’s technology environment.
October 09, 2015 -
Phaedra Chrousos is the first Chief Customer Officer at the General Services Administration. She spoke with In Depth's Francis Rose about a customer-focused web culture, a long-term digital vision for the government, and other agencies' digital service teams.
October 08, 2015 -
On March 4, the General Services Administration issued a proposed rule that would require contractors to report transactional data from orders placed against GSA’s Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract vehicles as well as GSA’s governmentwide acquisition…
October 06, 2015 -
Martha Dorris, the General Services Administration’s director of the Office of Strategic Programs within the Office of Integrated Technology Services, plans to leave government at the end of October and eventually start her own consulting firm focusing on customer service.
October 01, 2015 -
GSA made an award to Booz Allen Hamilton under the OASIS multiple award contract on behalf of the Defense Department for a host of global threat mitigation services.
September 28, 2015 -
There is a growing interest on Capitol Hill to codify some aspects of cloud computing, including the security authorization program known as FedRAMP.
September 28, 2015 Aaron Powell, partner and chief strategy officer for Flexion, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how the concept of Lean software development can be adapted to the federal government. September 22, 2015
September 21, 2015The emphasis on customer services across government includes a higher profile for feedback. The latest social media site to give agencies feedback on employee performance and mission delivery is Yelp. Justin Herman of the General Services Administration tells In Depth with Francis Rose the deal with Yelp is just one of many opportunities for agencies to interact with citizens.
September 21, 2015