Questions for the nominee to head the General Services Administration, former GSA Chief of Staff Martha Johnson, ranged from surplus properties to the Networx contract. She answered questions from the members of the Senate Homeland…
There are a lot of awards out there. One of the more prestigious of those awards is the John J. Franke Jr. award, given out by the American Council on Technology and the Industry Advisory…
OMB drafting new guidance to let agencies use function to better understand citizen Web behavior. Draft policy includes opt-in option.
Agencies making contract awards without fully understanding the contractor\'s past successes or failures. GAO makes six recommendations to improve and standardize the information.
New site, Data.gov, to grow to about 240,000 datasets over the next month. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says the public should direct what information is made available.
White House outlines replacement for PART program to focus on \'meaningful measures and quantitative targets.\'
New OFPP report tells how many agencies are taking advantage of four-year-old tool to improve their procurement workforce.
In a unexpected change, John Johnson, the retiring Assistant Commissioner for Integrated Technology Services at GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, has named Mary Powers-King as the acting deputy assistant commissioner for FAS’s Integrated Technology Services. Powers-King…
I’ve been hearing a lot about changes at GSA — some concrete, and some just discussed. I’ll talk about potential changes later, but… a concrete move from Acting Administrator Paul Prouty Friday. In a memo,…
The General Services Administration says there is a huge difference between schedule contracts and multiple award contracts when it comes to small business laws. GSA issued a memo saying schedule contracts are not covered by…
By Jason Miller Executive Editor FederalNewsRadio With the Networx and Alliant contracts in place, the General Services Administration is turning its attention its next big procurement. GSA on April 15 issued a request for information…
Contracts, architecture helped support almost three times as many people as expected
We’ve been telling you about GSA’s John Johnson’s retirement … This morning, he announced his new gig — on Twitter, no less, with this post. As I plan for my departure from GSA after 34…
By Jason Miller Executive Editor FederalNewsRadio The General Services Administration added Sprint to the growing number of vendors offering secure Internet gateway services through the Networx telecommunications contract. Sprint, joins AT&T and Qwest, to offer…
We told you it was coming — in fact, we hinted at it back in January, but it is now official: Martha Johnson has been nominated to be the administrator of the General Services Administration.…