10 July 2008FCW Insider: Williams to get his hearing
It isn't totally official yet, but Jim Williams, commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service and the Bush administration's nominee to be GSA administrator, has his confirmation hearing.

7 July 2008Editorial: Right man, bad timing?
We wholeheartedly and enthusiastically endorse the nomination of Jim Williams to be administrator of the General Services Administration. Former GSA Administrator Lurita Doan hired him to be the first commissioner of GSAs Federal Technology Service, and nominating him for the top post is a masterful move on the Bush administrations part. Williams is like a grown-up Boy Scout somebody we trust to put the interests of the government above his own.

11 June 2008Senate passes purchasing bill
The Senate has passed legislation to open to state and local governments the General Services Administration's contract for homeland security and law enforcement products and services.

26 June 2008New law opens some GSA contracts to state, local agencies
President Bush today signed a bill that opens some of the General Services Administrations contracts to state and local governments to make some purchases.

25 June 2008Williams nominated as GSA administrator
Jim Williams, the commissioner of the General Services Administrations Federal Acquisition Service, has been nominated to be GSA"s administrator, the White House announced today.

16 June 2008GSA expects schedules office by July
The General Services Administration could set up a new office as early as July to oversee its multiple-award schedule contracts, a GSA official said today.

11 June 2008Senate passes purchasing bill
The Senate has passed legislation to open to state and local governments the General Services Administration's contract for homeland security and law enforcement products and services.

10 June 2008GSA: Congress should broaden state, local access to GSA contracts
As the Senate considers legislation that would open several General Services Administration contracts to state and local agencies, a top GSA official said today that the measure should include more opportunities.

8 June 2008Price clause spurs more questions
What does the price reduction clause mean? Contractors and government procurement officials say they often are confused about what it means, which is why the General Services Administration created a panel to study that and other questions related to its schedule contracts.

20 May 2008Outside IG disputes Doan's interference claims
Claims that the General Services Administration's inspector general pressured GSA contracting officers during contract negotiations with Sun Microsystems are baseless, according to a report by the U.S. Postal Service's IG.

19 May 2008Balutis: Finding a new administrator
The General Services Administration is one of the major administrative management arms of the government. It provides services, supplies, solutions and policies not only for information technology and acquisition but also for building and office space management, motor vehicles and fleets, personal property, telework, and green initiatives, among other things. It manages access to the governments Web portal, USA.gov, in addition to print publications mailed from Pueblo, Colo., and telephone assistance through the National Contact Center at 1-800-FedInfo. When we talk about the so-called business of government, GSA is at the heart of finding newer, smarter and cheaper ways to deliver services to people and government itself.

12 May 2008Soloway: Challenges are opportunities
The resignation of an agency head always produces its share of drama. But those departures, regardless of the circumstances, are common and generally less important than the agencys overall condition and the leadership that remains.

5 May 2008Amtower: A drop in the bucket: Frenzy about abuses of GSAs small-purchase credit card program ignores its ample value
A recent study by the Government Accountability Office requested by Sens. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has once again created a minor media furor over SmartPay, the small-purchase credit card program managed by the General Services Administration. Details about the program appeared on the front page of the Washington Post April 9. The story ran above the fold with a headline, Federal Credit Cards Misused.

5 May 2008Post-Doan GSA to focus on customers
Lurita Doan, former administrator of the General Services Administration, set out to restore GSAs reputation for customer service. But some procurement experts say she pulled the agency off course in her nearly two years as chief and failed to achieve her goals.

30 April 2008Government-Contract Head Resigns Post After Months of Controversy
WASHINGTON -- The head of the agency that administers federal contracts has resigned amid allegations of engaging in illegal political activities and doling out no-bid awards.

23 April 2008GSA releases FAR changes for comment
The General Services Administration is seeking public comment on proposed changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation that would place greater emphasis on government contractors past performance when they bid on new awards.

21 April 2008GSA pricing policy could get the boot
A new advisory panel will evaluate the relevance of a price reduction clause that requires companies on General Services Administration schedule contracts to offer the government their most deeply discounted prices.

17 April 2008Doan seeks advice on schedule program
A new advisory panel will begin an in-depth review of the General Services Administrations policies and regulations for schedule contracts, the agency announced today.

14 April 2008Contractors are here to stay
When presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) declared in 2007 that she would eliminate 500,000 federal contractors if elected president, some policy experts said she couldnt do it. One of those experts was Steven Schooner, senior associate dean of academic affairs and associate professor of law at George Washington University.

7 April 2008Waldron: Restoring balance-GSA has an opportunity to fix problems created by a thorny price reductions clause
The General Services Administration should examine the contradiction between the competitive task-order process and the noncompetitive pricing terms and conditions inherent in multiple-award schedule (MAS) contracts.

2 April 2008GSA memo clarifies terms of IBM suspension
A government document obtained today confirms that the Environmental Protection Agencys March 27 suspension of IBM from government work stops agencies' actions to purchase from the company.

1 April 2008GSA re-examines Alliant Small Business awards
The General Services Administration is taking another look at its Alliant Small Business contract awards.

31 March 2008Alliant faces months-long setback
Agencies and contractors waiting to start work on task orders through the General Services Administrations Alliant contract will remain idle for several more months, procurement experts say.

31 March 2008A 'who's who' in small-biz rule: Officials propose changes to make contracting set-aside decisions easier
Contracting officers often get tangled in the weeds as they try to figure out which small-business set-aside programs should apply to a given solicitation. A proposed rule might clear some of that confusion, but it could also leave contracting officers with less flexibility to make contracting decisions.

27 March 2008GSA to reevaluate Alliant bids
The General Services Administration will re-evaluate all 62 of the bid proposals for its Alliant contract, GSA said today.

24 March 2008GSA GSA to go ahead with Alliant: Officials must decide specific remedy after court rules in favor of protesters
The General Services Administration plans to proceed with Alliant, a 10- year, $50 billion information technology contract, despite a judges ruling that upheld protests filed by eight losing bidders.

24 March 2008Buzz of the Week: GSA: Between Alliant and a hard place
By the time you read this and even as it is written late Friday it may be out of date. The situation surrounding the General Services Administrations $50 billion Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract appears to be evolving quickly, and its being carefully watched inside and outside government.

17 March 2008GSA awards $2.5 billion contract for contact center services
The General Services Administration is offering agencies another way to quickly set up contact centers during emergencies.

6 March 2008Court stops work on $50 billion Alliant contract
A federal judge has ordered the General Services Administration to stop all work on the $50 billion Alliant contract, ruling that the agency failed to consistently apply its award criteria when assessing the bids of the 62 vendors.

5 March 2008GSA issues Security LOB enterprise software notice
The next phase of the Security Line of Business effort is in motion. The General Services Administration issued March 4 a SmartBuy enterprise software license notice for situation awareness and incident response applications.

4 March 2008Judge rules in favor of Alliant protesters, source says
A U.S. Federal Claims Court judge ruled March 3 in favor of companies protesting the General Services Administrations awards for its Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract, according to a person familiar with the case.

3 March 2008GSA launches new initiative to help veterans
The General Services Administration wants to boost the amount of contracting dollars going to veteran-owned businesses with a new initiative announced today.

25 February 2008GSA names new deputy general counsel
Lennard Loewentritt has been appointed the General Services Administrations deputy general counsel, effective March 2. He will also continue as acting general counsel.

22 February 2008FCW Insider: Game of chickens
We got hopeful when we saw that GSA's inspector general was going to speak publicly, only to then read the fine print -- press not allowed. What are we all afraid of? So I am deputizing you as reporters for the day and you can let us know what goes on.

18 February 2008Section 508 remains a high hurdle: GSA pursues a carrot-and-stick strategy for improving compliance with the law
The acquisition community continues to struggle with its efforts to buy information technology products and services that meet accessibility requirements, although it has been nine years since the enactment of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments created those requirements.

4 February 2008Most agencies still wary of SaaS: But DOD and GSA see software as a service as a way to reduce development costs
Some federal agencies want to learn whether buying software as a service is appropriate for them. SaaS is a trend that industry experts say could eventually replace costly software purchases and risky implementations.

4 February 2008Time for a Schedule 70 makeover?:New director of GSA's schedules contracts sorts through ideas for updating the program
Sales on the General Services Administrations largest schedule contract, Schedule 70, were looking flat before this year, and fiscal 2008 figures arent showing any bounce.

23 January 2008GSA GSA adds security services to schedules
The General Services Administration added four new services to its schedules contracts Jan. 16 as the agency pushes ahead with efforts to meet agencies security convergence needs, officials said today.

21 January 2008GSA looking for software as a service for USA.gov
The General Services Administration wants to jump on the software-as-a-service bandwagon through its Office of Citizen Services and Communications.

16 January 2008GSA awards contracts for wireless expense management
The General Services Administration on Jan. 15 awarded contracts to three vendors to help agencies manage their wireless devices, and possibly save money by avoiding unnecessary fees for devices.

14 January 2008GSA adds IBM to line of business schedule
The General Services Administration added IBM to the list of vendors approved to provide services under the Human Resources Line of Business. But Big Blue and the three other vendors who won places on the schedule last month may not get much business in the near future.

11 January 2008Drabkin becomes GSA's acquisition chief
David Drabkin has been appointed deputy chief acquisition officer and senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, Administrator Lurita Doan announced today.

8 January 2008GSA changes its mind, adds Stanley to Alliant
The General Services Administration added a company to its Alliant contract that it initially passed on, the company said today.

4 January 2008USA.gov to get support from small-biz firm
USA.gov, the government's official Web portal, will get content assistance and other information technology services from Cascades Technologies under a a five-year, $3.5 million contract the General Services Administration has awarded the company.

13 December 2007USAID to look for IT support
The U.S. Agency for International Development plans to solicit information technology support for its humanitarian and foreign disaster assistance programs.

11 December 2007GSA seeks help with IPv6 training
As the deadline for installing the next IP approaches, the General Services Administration is asking industry about training federal workforce for the transition.

7 December 2007GSA considers outsourcing schedule contract application system
The General Services Administration may replace its Schedules Input Program, the system for uploading a contractors schedule contract application and catalog information on the GSA Advantage Web site.

5 December 2007OMB, agencies to push green IT in contracts
The Office of Management and Budget is expected to publish next week a provision to the Federal Acquisition Regulations to purchase environmental and energy-saving electronic products when they are available, Holly Elwood, headquarters lead of the Environmental Protection Agencys Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) program, said today.

4 December 2007Group to GSA: Be a 'trusted adviser,' 'thought leader'
The General Services Administration must focus on its customers and regain their confidence, an industry working group told GSA officials last week.

3 December 2007Agencies overlook disability rule: Few agency IT solicitations include mandatory Section 508 specifications
Agencies often forget about making information technology purchases that meet the needs of people with disabilities, as shown by the tiny number of solicitations that include references to accessibility standards.

26 November 2007Editorial: Fixing the schedules
Like them or not, GSA's schedule contracts have been remarkably successful, accounting for about $36 billion in annual sales.

20 November 2007Wilkinson to leave GSA
The General Services Administrations chief acquisition officer Molly Wilkinson has resigned after a short seven-and-a-half month stint, government and industry sources say.

15 November 2007GSA's 'financial house in order,' Doan says
The General Services Administrations schedules sales increased this year as the agency got a grasp on its finances, the agency said.

12 November 2007Congress endorses GSA's assisted services
Lawmakers want the Defense Department to use the General Services Administrations assisted acquisition services so DOD experts are free to work on defense-specific procurements.

9 November 2007Canon, EMC drop out of GSA schedules
Two more household names in the government information technology market have walked away from the General Services Administration.

7 November 2007GSA lashes back at DOD IG
A top General Services Administration official said today he was very disappointed by a report from the Defense Departments inspector general condemning the Air Force for wasting money by using GSAs assisted-acquisition services.

5 November 2007Aronie: The danger of discounts
Mark Twain once advised the press that the report of my death was an exaggeration. Although Im no Mark Twain, and I suspect that my sabbatical from the pages of Federal Computer Week has not caused as much consternation as the premature publication of Twains obituary in the New York Journal did in 1897, I have received a fair number of e-mail messages asking me where Ive gone.

2 November 2007IG: DOD wasted money by placing orders with GSA
The Defense Department wasted more than $600,000 when it turned to the General Services Administration for help in placing orders on an Air Force task-order contract, according to a new report from DODs inspector general.

30 October 2007Legislation: Give service-disabled business owners priority
Service-disabled veterans who own small businesses should get top priority in government contracting, according to a bill the House passed today.

25 October 2007GSA, Army sign enterprise license deals for IT asset management
The General Services Administration and the Army Small Computer Programs Enterprise Software Initiative have signed governmentwide contracts with two information technology asset management companies.

24 October 2007Industry to evaluate GSA's grasp on info protection services
As it works to construct a new multiple-award schedule contract, the General Services Administration wants to understand how businesses deal with securing information.

19 October 2007GSA to award contract for evaluating financial shared-services providers
The General Services Administration will likely release in early 2008 a request for proposals to test and evaluate the capabilities of commercial shared-services providers, said Mary Mitchell, program manager for the Financial Management Line of Business and executive director at GSAs Financial Systems Integration Office.

9 October 2007GSA offers risk analysis services for breaches
The General Services Administration will offer risk analysis services that agencies can acquire to identify harm caused by data breaches. GSA will offer them through agreements it signed with two GSA schedule contractors.

8 October 2007Editorial: Assisting acquisitions
GSA's assisted services business is too important to let fail. Here are three steps to make it work.

3 October 2007GSA awards $0 contract for spending database data
The General Services Administration will not be paying for the contracting and grant data that will be in the federal spending database.

24 September 2007Agencies can rehire retired experts: OFPP urges agencies to take advantage of a provision in GSA Modernization Act
As more federal acquisition experts retire, agencies are struggling to fill the knowledge gap. By using a little-known provision in the General Services Administration Modernization Act of 2006, managers can pull retirees back into contracting jobs without any pension penalties.

17 September 2007Convergence is more than buzz: GSA seeks to revamp schedules to reflect merging of physical and computer security
General Services Administration officials say they are looking for ways to support security convergence through the agencys existing contract schedules.

14 September 2007OFPP details how to bring retired acquisition workers back
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has set up a way for agencies to relieve some of the acquisition workforce burdenhiring retired federal workers.

14 September 2007Sun pulls out of GSA schedules contract
Sun Microsystems, mired for months in a battle with the General Services Administration and the agency's inspector general over pricing policies and audit practices, announced Friday it would cancel its Multiple Award Schedule contract as of Oct. 12.

11 September 2007GSA recruits integrity council to review Sun case
Lurita Doan, administrator for the General Services Administration, has asked the Presidents Council on Integrity and Efficiency to help sort out a conflict between GSA's inspector general and Sun Microsystems, saying the case is just one example of a disturbing trend.

10 September 2007GSA on the road to recovery? Agency officials announce plans to fix sagging assisted acquisition services
In the past three years, the market for assisted acquisition services moved, but the General Services Administration didnt. Now the agency is trying to catch up.

6 September 2007Alliant protests won't slow GSA, officials say
Companies filed five new bid protests Aug. 31 on the General Services Administrations major information technology contract Alliant, bringing the total number of protests to eight.

3 September 2007Buzz of the Week
Sept. 1 begins a one-month countdown to the end of the federal governments fiscal year.

31 August 2007Gulf Coast businesses get boost from GSA
A new directive from the General Services Administration will streamline the process for awarding recovery contracts to small businesses in the Gulf Coast region, the agency said today.

30 August 2007GSA seeks approaches for financial management systems
The General Services Administration seeks information to develop testing and evaluation strategies related to selecting commercial shared-service providers for the Financial Management Line of Business consolidation initiative. The testing strategies would ensure that financial management systems are implemented efficiently and meet core system and agency-defined requirements.

16 August 2007GSA puts schedules in Express lane
A test of the General Services Administrations program to speed the award process for schedule contracts is moving into its second phase, as agency officials see successes and the potential for more.

8 August 2007GAO denies protests of award to run GSA's HSPD-12 office
The General Services Administrations Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 Managed Service Office can finally move forward without concerns.

August 2007New Expense Rates for Travelers
The General Services Administration has announced the government's fiscal 2008 per diems -- the maximum daily reimbursement that federal employees can claim for expenses while on official travel. The standard rate will increase to $109 from $99 a day for travel within the continental United States. The standard lodging rate for an overnight stay increased to $70, from $60, and the daily reimbursement for meals remained at $39. In addition to raising the standard per diem by $10 for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, the GSA also set new rates for 393 destinations in the United States, such as large cities, where hotels and meals cost more. Federal employees traveling to the Washington area, for example, will receive a maximum per diem of $265 in fiscal 2008, up from $259 this fiscal year. The 2008 rate applies except for July and August, when the per diem drops to $218. The maximum per diem for Baltimore increased by $7, to $214, for fiscal 2008. The GSA posted the per diem tables at www.gsa.gov

6 August 2007GSA: Alliant has everything
The new megacontract incorporates the federal enterprise architecture and the Defense Department's enterprise architecture It took the General Services Administration more than a year longer than it expected to award Alliant, its latest governmentwide acquisition contract. But officials said several innovative features of the information technology contract will make it well worth the wait.

26 July 2007GSA goes to Eagle Eye for contract, grant data
The General Services Administration intends to issue a sole-sourcing purchase order to Eagle Eye Publishers for custom programming services as the agency works to put federal contract and grant information into an easily searchable public database.

16 July 20078(a) small businesses take a tumble: GSA enforces STARS contract by dropping 197 companies that failed to meet sales target
Richard Rea, president of the telecommunications and information technology company R Rea, was one of 197 small-business owners whose companies the General Services Administration delisted in June from a governmentwide acquisition contract for minority-owned small businesses. Like the 196 other companies, R Rea did not reach a mandatory $100,000 sales benchmark during the contracts three-year base period.

16 July 2007Editorial: Is FCW 'Doan obsessed?': The General Services Administration is important, that is reflected in news coverage
Federal Computer Week has spent a good amount of time, effort, energy and ink covering the General Services Administration during the past 18 months. We have covered GSA and the agencys administrator, Lurita Doan, so much that, during a recent gathering, we were respectfully, of course accused of being Doan obsessed.

16 July 2007GSA: We'll change to black: GSA officials ready new business model for its assisted acquisition services business
The General Services Administration is looking at all options for overhauling its slumping assisted acquisition services business. GSA officials said they intend to bring business costs in line with revenue by October, the start of the new fiscal year.

12 July 2007Denett: Award contracts to vet-owned businesses
Paul Denett, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said driving government contracts to veteran-owned small businesses is one of his priorities and should be a priority of agencies as well.

9 July 2007Doan: Networx means change: The new telecommunications contracts will have a far-reaching effect on agencies missions
In unveiling the extensive Networx telecommunications contracts, the General Services Administration recently ushered in a new era with far-reaching implications for the security and prosperity of the nation and how government agencies accomplish their missions.

5 July 2007Contract appeals boards merge into one
Eight agencies contract appeals boards were combined into a single organization in January, and an interim rule issued today outlines the new boards governing rules.

27 June 2007GSA: Oversight will not be outsourced
The General Services Administration wants to offer agencies more contract support services, not overstep bounds by outsourcing oversight, officials said today.

25 June 2007Editorial: More headlines than help: FCW shares hopeful and depressing points about the main players at a Doan hearing
Federal agencies face tough issues, particularly those related to procurement. But you wouldnt know that if you had attended a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing earlier this month, which featured Lurita Doan, administrator of the General Administration, in a starring role.

25 June 2007Encryption BPAs are open to all: Contracts awarded under GSAs SmartBuy signal better intergovernmental relations
A newly opened door for state and local governments to buy from federal contracts signifies improving intergovernmental relations, according to procurement officials who announced 10 precedent-setting blanket purchase agreements last week. The BPAs offer encryption products and services to protect sensitive, unclassified information stored on laptop PCs and mobile computing and removable storage devices.

19 June 2007Interior gives up on providing HSPD-12 services
The Interior Department is abandoning its plans to be a shared-services provider (SSP) under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.

18 June 2007Buzz of the Week: Doans in-tense hearing
Lurita Doans second appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week was in many ways more of a sideshow than anything else. Yes, it was incredible political theater, the likes of which the government information technology community rarely sees. And yes, the committees chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), managed to steal the headlines by calling for the GSA administrator to resign.

18 June 2007The outsourcer's dilemma: Many agencies need the help of contractors now more than ever, but outsourcing can be a minefield for the ill-prepared
Rapid technology changes, aging government workforces and shrinking budgets are driving a growing number of state and local officials to turn to private contractors for help in running technology-based operations. But under the surface of those common challenges, state and local technology outsourcing is difficult to pigeonhole.

4 June 2007Corini: Raise your guard: 5 beneficial practices for managing your GSA schedule contracts and staying clean
Contractors have always feared lawsuits or audits by the government, but they have accepted that possibility as a cost of doing business. Now weve seen that contractors must also be alert to potential audits or suits brought by whistle-blowers in their own companies.

4 June 2007Editorial: Stating the obvious Define government's business as the people's business
Amid all the talk about the Hatch Act, the General Services Administration and GSA Administrator Lurita Doan, it seems like a prime opportunity for leaders to explicitly state what should be obvious: Government agencies must not be used as partisan political tools.

8 May 2007GSA IG: Contracting officers not using e-forms
Vendors continue to use paper rather than electronic forms to submit contract offers and make modifications, as interviews with contracting officers reveal a lack of buy-in and weak incentives to go digital, according to a March 6 inspector general report.

2 May 2007Two firms protest GSA's HSPD-12 award to EDS
Two companies have protested the General Services Administrations award to EDS to run the agencys Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 Managed Services Office (MSO).

30 April 2007GSA's water torture
This is Federal Computer Weeks 11th issue of the year and it marks the fifth time that the Buzz of the Week has involved, in one way or another, the General Services Administration. Some will argue that that statistic says something about FCW or media, but it also says something about the kind of year that GSA has been having. The past week was no exception.

16 April 2007GSA, DOD seek data encryption under SmartBuy
The General Services Administration and the Defense Department issued a request for quotations last week for full-disk encryption or a file/folder encryption system under the government's SmartBuy enterprise software management program.

9 April 2007GSA seeks all-purpose customer service support
Citizens must be able to easily contact the government, so to help them do that, the General Services Administration wants contractors to handle the different avenues of its customer services program.

2 April 2007Another GSA official heads to private sector
Another senior General Services Administration procurement official is heading to the private sector.

2 April 2007GSA, OPM delay HR business line solicitation, awards
The General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management have pushed back the awards for the Human Resources Line of Business to August.

2 April 2007GSA: Never a dull moment
Lawmakers intensified their oversight of the General Services Administration by summoning GSA Administrator Lurita Doan last week. But GSA has been regular fodder for Federal Computer Week cartoonist John Klossner. The following is a collection of Klossners takes on GSA.

2 April 2007Wagner: Why GSA matters, Business process economies have surpassed economies of scale in importance today
Recent press coverage of the General Services Administration has not been all positive, so we should remind ourselves why GSA matters and will continue to matter. This minor agency, known primarily within the federal government, plays an important role in helping the rest of the government fulfill its mission. But much has changed since the agency was formed in 1949. It is worth reviewing why an organization created to solve the procurement problems of a post-World War II era government is relevant in the era of the Internet, globalization and the war on terrorism.

22 March 2007GSA back on track, Doan says
Lurita Doan wants everyone to know that the General Services Administration has gotten its groove back.

14 March 2007GSA to seek commercial financial management providers
The Financial Systems Integration Office will select vendors from which agencies can choose to provide services under the Financial Management Line of Business consolidation initiative.

15 February 2007OMB seeks public input on federal spending search tool
The Office of Management and Budget has announced an ambitious schedule to implement a requirement to report on federal spending, sketching out how data will flow from a spaghetti bowl of sources and formats into a unified, searchable database by the end of this year.

6 February 2007GSA, IG told to work together on contract oversight
The Bush administrations fiscal 2008 budget tells Lurita Doan, administrator of the General Services Administration, and GSA Inspector General Brian Miller, to work together on reviewing contractors.

23 January 2007Doan 'elated' by SEWP decision
Reversing her previous stance, Lurita Doan, administrator of the General Services Administration, said today she was elated by the decision to allow NASAs acquisition contract to continue.

15 January 2007Performance-based acquisitions down in fiscal 2006
Departments slid to 49 percent in fiscal 2006 from 50.9 percent in fiscal 2005, the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation found.

12 January 2007Details of TCE deal emerge
The General Services Administration has agreed to help the Treasury Department cancel its Treasury Communications Enterprise contract, as part of an agreement that will bring Treasury's telecommunications business to GSA.

11 January 2007GSA's chief acquisition officer to leave for private sector
The General Services Administration's chief acquisition officer announced Wednesday that after three years in government, she is leaving for a private sector law firm.

2 January 2007Doan declines Snowe's request for GWAC restriction
A senior U.S. senator asked the General Services Administration to place restrictions on which businesses can bid on a large information technology contract, but GSA said no, according to correspondence between GSA and Capitol Hill.

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