General Services Administration

  • The 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
  • Attorney Bob Metzger with Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, PC, joins host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of the federal government's cybersecurity policies and regulations including the new DFARS cyber rule. September 15, 2015

    September 18, 2015
  • The government's digital consultancy is applying its flexible approach to solving problems more human than technical in nature.

    September 17, 2015
  • The mission of the General Services Administration's 18-F is spreading across government now. Its former executive director, Greg Godbout, was one of the first to take its mission to another agency. Godbout, now the chief technology officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, told In Depth with Francis Rose his vision for the CTO's office is to serve both the internal IT team and the mission delivery people.

    September 15, 2015
  • Army officials said Thursday that they would conduct what amounts to an about-face on a 2013 decision which turned over the management of the service’s childcare assistance program to the General Services Administration.

    September 11, 2015
  • Kay Ely, director of GSA IT Schedule programs, talked to Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm about doing your best work.

    September 09, 2015
  • When it comes to the replacement vehicle for its popular Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract, the General Services Administration is being super careful. For Alliant 2, it has conducted a series of requests for information with industry. John Cavadias, lead contracting officer for Alliant 2 tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin why GSA did so much research before issuing the request for proposals for a vehicle on which agencies will eventially spend tens of billions of dollars.

    September 09, 2015
  • A request for information to update the IT schedule receives initial positive reviews, but modernizing the largest multiple award contract has never been easy.

    September 08, 2015
  • The federal technology community is seeing a lot of key senior executives switch roles or leave government, including new officials in charge of data analytics at GSA and EPA.

    September 08, 2015
  • GSA's office of integrated technology services and the Defense Information Systems Agency are in discussions to determine whether cloud is a "sufficiently defined" market to warrant a new multiple award contract of its own.

    September 03, 2015
  • Sixteen vendors are winners in 18F's Agile Blanket Purchase Agreement from the General Services Administration. It requires vendors to submit a working prototype based on a public dataset and then use a git repository to show their work. 18F worked closely with the Federal Acquisition Service to make the awards to large and small businesses. Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, spoke to In Depth on Francis Rose about the award.

    September 03, 2015
  • The Office of Personnel Management and Department of Defense have awarded a $133 million contract to help protect the personal information of people impacted by the cyber breach.

    September 01, 2015
  • The Acquisition Gateway at the General Services Administration is the culmination of a series of initiatives the administration and the agency have been focused on for a long time. Category management and hallways are just two of the initiatives rolled into the Gateway. Laura Stanton is acting assistant commissioner for the Office of Strategy Management at GSA. She told In Depth with Francis Rose that the Acquisition Gateway team makes updates and improvements to the tool all the time.

    September 01, 2015
  • DHS and GSA choose Booz Allen and HP Enterprise Services to provide tools and services under two task orders under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program.

    August 31, 2015
  • GSA's 18F organization meets both of its goals in developing this much-anticipated contract for agile development services.

    August 31, 2015