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GSA has begun development on Alliant 3, will begin releasing RFPs for the Polaris small business contract in January, and is prioritizing development of Services MAC, a follow-on to OASIS.
In a report to Congress, GSA says it would be too expensive to test out the e-procurement and e-commerce platform approaches under the commercial platform initiative.
The Agriculture Department created a new interagency working group to manage its cloud efforts, while GSA is preparing to launch a new marketplace.
The Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration are turning to online crowdsourcing to help make the federal procurement process better, in a program called Engaging Procurement Ideas to Consider.
GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program saw $14 billion in task orders last year and expects the use of the contracts only to increase this year.
The General Services Administration is keeping contractors on their toes with the release of three acquisition initiatives — Polaris, the new small business governmentwide contract, and two requests for information around emerging technology and professional services.
Laura Stanton, Keith Nakasone and Allen Hill, members of the IT category leadership team at the General Services Administration, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss cloud computing, eCommerce and GSA's IT procurement and management programs.
In today's Federal Newscast, American Federation of Government Employees members say they're not ready yet to return to their offices.
The General Services Administration said in April the 8(a) STARS II govermentwide acquisition contract for IT services hit its contract ceiling, but now it has increased the vehicle’s maximum obligations to $22 billion.
Laura Stanton, currently the deputy assistant commission for GSA’s IT Category, will take over on an acting basis when Bill Zielinski leaves on June 5.
Laura Stanton, GSA’s deputy assistant commissioner for category management in the Office of IT Category in the Federal Acquisition Service, said six-to-eight agencies will pilot this approach to small purchases over the next three years.
Larry Allen joined Federal Drive to talk about key shuffles, such as Laura Stanton becoming the new day-to-day manager of the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecom contract.
GSA, OMB embrace Congressional enthusiasm for commercial e-commerce portals, but say several more legal changes are needed to bring the plan to fruition.
The Pentagon will help contracting officers and vendors understand what it’s buying and who is doing the buying through a new acquisition portal.