- FINAL EDITION
AUGUST 2005 Legislation House Moves to Consolidate Boards of Contract Appeals On its own initiative, the House Armed Services Committee (HASG) included several provisions in H.R. 1815, the House version of the FY 2006 National Defense Authorization Act, dramatically changing the structure of the various Boards of Contracts Appeals (BCA) ......
- Contract Management: Guidance Needed to Promote
Competition for Defense Task Orders.
GAO-04-874 July 30, 2004 The Department of Defense (DOD) spends billions of dollars each year acquiring services through task orders issued under multiple-award contracts or the General Services Administration's federal supply schedule program. However, previous GAO and DOD Inspector General reports found that DOD was not obtaining the level of ......
- federal procurement opportunities for women business owners: good news - bad news scenario
Women own nearly half of all U.S. firms.That's according to newly released research from the Center for Women's Business Research. Women-owned businesses are growing at twice the rate of all privatelyheld firms and total 10.6 million.These firms employ 19.1 million people and generate nearly $2.5 trillion in sales. While the ......
- Spotlight Focuses on Federal Procurement
The federal procurement community is under a spotlight-a very bright spotlight. Never before have contract allocations and purchasing practices had such a prominent position on the front pages of newspapers and Web sites across the country and around the world. The spotlight is shining on FEMA's handling of the relief ......
- Lee leaving, will tackle FEMA procurement: turmoil
continues at GSA.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has tapped one of the government's most experienced procurement leaders, Deidre Lee, to help straighten out its widely criticized disaster response and recovery efforts. Lee was named acting deputy director of operations, effective next month. She currently serves as assistant commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition ......
- GSA awards federal supply schedule contract to Diamon
Associates International.
Diamon Associates International, LLC, a leading provider of state-of-the-art computing solutions, has announced that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded Diamon a five-year multiple award schedule contract, which is renewable for three additional five-year option periods. The contract award opens to Federal government agencies Diamon's full portfolio of ......
- Motorola Inc., U.S. Federal Government Markets
Division, Hanover, Md., was awarded on May 30, 2003, a contract for the
purchase, delivery and distribution of 3,000 portable and
vehicular-mounted mobile...
Motorola Inc., U.S. Federal Government Markets Division, Hanover, Md., was awarded on May 30, 2003, a contract for the purchase, delivery and distribution of 3,000 portable and vehicular-mounted mobile radios, base stations, repeaters and towers, spare parts and installation to support the Baghdad Police Force. The contract was awarded on ......