General Services Administration
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GSA says the redevelopment of the 19th Century building will help provide a critical link between tourists on the National Mall and the downtown area. We get the latest from GSA\'s Cathy Kronopolus.
April 05, 2011 -
Several sites, including Data.gov, the IT Dashboard and the FEDRamp cloud efforts, could be shut down in the next two months if the administration doesn\'t get more money under the E-government fund. In all, nine sites are on the list to be discontinued by July 30 if OMB doesn\'t find money to keep it going. Experts say OMB has several ways to keep the sites up, including pass-the-hat among agencies.
March 31, 2011 -
Gwynne Kostin, director of Mobile, Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies of GSA, explains how employees can overcome some of the biggest challenges to mobile technologies.
March 29, 2011 -
Host Mark Amtower interviews government contract expert and consultant Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, on a variety of contracting issues. March 28, 2011 (Encore presentation April 28, 2011)
March 28, 2011 -
If a mobile worker is teleworking, does that mean they\'re in the office?
March 28, 2011 -
The two agencies plan to implement healthier foods and sustainable options at all concessions in their buildings.
March 24, 2011 -
David Dowd, Partner at Mayer Brown LLP, discusses the new competition requirements agencies must follow when placing orders exceeding $150,000. March 22, 2011
March 23, 2011 -
After its mid-year review of per-diem rates for 2011, 11 different counties need to be adjusted, according to the General Services Administration.
March 22, 2011 -
Despite a 2006 mandate to secure mobile devices and implement two-factor authentication, only just over half of federal agencies have managed to do so. OMB submits its annual FISMA report to Congress detailing the steps the government has taken to improve cybersecurity, including spending $12 billion on cybersecurity last year.
March 21, 2011 -
GWACs explained by GSA\'s Michael O\'Neill, NIH\'s Mary B. Armstead, and NASA\'s Joanne Woytek
March 18, 2011 -
GSA is focused on reducing waste as much as possible, while still allowing government to be effective. Sustainability was a focus of this year\'s IRMCO event.
March 16, 2011 -
The FAR Councils are adding a new set of controls to contracts worth more than $20 million going to vendors in the socioeconomic program. This interim rule is in reaction to problems that surfaced last year when 8(a) firms were passing most of the work under the award to large businesses. Agencies also have new requirements to determine the order of priority for small business programs, around multiple-award contracts and when to use other than firm-fixed price contracts.
March 16, 2011 -
The FAR Councils are adding a new set of controls to contracts worth more than $20 million going to vendors in the socioeconomic program. This interim rule is in reaction to problems that surfaced last year when 8(a) firms were passing most of the work under the award to large businesses. Agencies also have new requirements to determine the order of priority for small business programs, around multiple-award contracts and when to use other than firm-fixed price contracts.
March 16, 2011 -
GSA\'s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies provides information to the public through a variety of ways. GSA\'s Gwynne Kostin tells us about how the agency is sharing lessons learned governmentwide.
March 11, 2011 -
The General Services Administration’s annual IRMCO conference is just around the corner and two of its key panel discussions will focus on cloud computing. IRMCO will be held March 15-16 at the Kellogg Conference Center and Hotel in Washington, D.C. Day two will open with a CIO roundtable on implementing the 25-Point IT Plan laid [...]
March 10, 2011