General Services Administration
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Agencies will soon have an easier time buying telecom, cloud and other network services. The General Services Administration is working on the first of a few successors to its Networx contracts. Network Services 2020 Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions is offering agencies a more flexible buying market. Bob Woods is president of Topside Consulting and former commissioner of the Federal Technology Service at GSA. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the differences between the current Networx contracts and NS 20-20 Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions.
August 14, 2015 -
Federal employees will have a few extra dollars to spend on government travel next year. The General Services Administration releases per diem rates for fiscal 2016. Rates go into effect Oct. 1.
August 14, 2015 -
Matt Goodrich, FedRAMP director at the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at GSA, wants to hear what's working and what's not as more agencies move to the cloud.
August 13, 2015 -
GSA signed a 15-year lease for a 625,000 square foot building on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Virginia.
August 12, 2015 -
At least 38 cloud service providers are now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program -- up 41 percent over the past six months. And initial estimates show at least 700 cloud systems meet FedRAMP standards. But the General Services Administration knows there's a gap between what agencies and vendors report and what they're actually using. Matt Goodrich is FedRAMP director at the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at GSA. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that he wants to hear what's working -- and what's not -- as more agencies move to the cloud.
August 11, 2015 Jim Benson, chief visionary officer of CorasCloud, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his company can help your agency do more with less at reduced costs and levels of complexity. August 11, 2015
August 10, 2015-
The Office of Management and Budget has told agencies to rethink how they interact with the public, and how they think about citizens as customers. The General Services Administration says it’s here to help. As Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu reports, GSA says it’s designing tools to help agencies get their “customer experience” programs off the ground and understand what citizens want.
August 07, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget has told agencies to rethink the ways in which they interact with the public and undertake a more customer-focused approach to the citizens they serve. The General Services Administration says it’s here to help.
August 07, 2015 -
Tom Sharpe, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said the agency is working through comments from contractors to try to find the best approach possible to reporting data on schedule buys.
August 06, 2015 -
The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has a new vision. It’s going to be the place where contracting officers and other acquisition workers can go for unbiased advice and find the best value to get their mission done. FAS’ updated goal coincides with the launch of the Obama administration’s category management initiative. Tom Sharpe is the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA. In part 1 of their interview, he tells executive editor Jason Miller more about how FAS is helping to bring better insight into the 10 biggest areas of spending across the government.
August 05, 2015 -
GSA and the Naval Sea Systems Command released a blanket purchase agreement and the first task order under that contract vehicle to provide a host of credit monitoring and identity protection services for those affected by the OPM data breach. The number of potential victims increased to 28 million.
August 05, 2015 -
Tom Sharpe, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said with 17 hallways in place and tools to support them, the goal is to understand the impact of these efforts. GSA also is trying to alleviate customer agency concerns about pricing with new initiatives.
August 05, 2015 -
The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has a new vision. It’s to be the place where contracting officers and other acquisition workers can go for unbiased advice and find the best value to get their mission done. FAS’s updated goal coincides with the launch of the Obama administration’s category management initiative. Tom Sharpe is the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA. In part 1 of their interview, he tells Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller how FAS is helping to bring better insight into the 10 biggest areas of spending across the government.
August 04, 2015 -
While everyone wants the government to be a good manager of public funds, a look behind the reverse auction curtain may find that not all is rosy in this world, says Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners.
August 03, 2015 -
The Homeland Security Department is committing $250 million in spending to the professional services governmentwide acquisition contract known as OASIS. DHS signed a memorandum of understanding with GSA detailing its commitment. Todd Richards is the OASIS contract program manager at the General Services Administration. Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller talked to Richards at the National Contract Management Association’s World Congress in Dallas and has more details about the MOU with DHS.
July 30, 2015