FedScoop

MARCH 1, 2024

Following scrutiny from both an agency watchdog and Congress for its purchases of Chinese-made video-conference cameras that were susceptible to security vulnerabilities, the General Services Administration said Thursday that it must deliver a corrective action plan to its inspector general’s office by March 25.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The General Services Administration on Tuesday issued the final draft solicitation for pool 1 of its Ascend blanket purchase agreement — a governmentwide, one-stop-shop for agencies to buy cloud technologies. The post GSA issues final draft solicitation for Ascend blanket purchase agreement appeared first on FedScoop.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 26, 2023

Agencies should ensure that their new purchases will fit into their existing infrastructure. As the end of another fiscal year approaches, federal agencies are making the final decisions on what technology is a must-have before the current budget concludes. Impulse buys in a spend-it-or-lose-it situation are unwise, however.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 29, 2024

Federal agencies are missing out on cost savings and making too many duplicative purchases when it comes to IT and cyber-related investments, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. The post Software license purchases need better agency tracking, GAO says appeared first on FedScoop.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that Tchibo, one of the largest coffee roasters in the world, has chosen Ivalua and its partner Capgemini to digitize Source-to-Contract (S2C) for its indirect purchasing of goods and services. Founded in 1949, the company today has a turnover of €3.2 ivalua.com.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In January, Local 10 news in Miami reported that a former Miami-Dade School Board member used district-issued credit cards to rack up more than $100,000 in personal purchases that included everything from refrigerators to a trip to Disney World. Are these controls being performed and operating as intended to detect or prevent the risk?

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Redstone Government Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Government wants to pay a fair and reasonable price for products and services that they purchase and expects you to pay your suppliers a fair and reasonable price. Well, the purchase becomes sole source – and yes, the requirements have just increased significantly. Oh, if that were only the case.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The General Services Administration has released a draft performance work statement for its proposed Ascend Blank Purchase Agreement, marking another step in the agency’s plans to simplify cloud purchasing processes. The original published date is listed as Dec. The response date is Jan.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When local governments purchase technology, it’s crucial they understand the unique constraints and responsibilities they face. Here are a few more skills Cunningham feels belong on the IT purchasing team: project management, financial analysis and communication skills.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Saalex, a Camarillo, California-based federal services contractor, has acquired Spalding Consulting for approximately $75 million as part of efforts to expand its information technology, engineering and software development capabilities in the aerospace and defense market.

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FedScoop

MAY 28, 2024

The FBI announced awards for the second iteration of a blanket purchase agreement for IT services and supplies Friday, estimating the spend will be $8 billion. The new agreement will serve as the primary vehicle for the agency’s IT services for the next eight years. Investments for the previous ITSSS totaled over $2 billion.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 10, 2023

If they apply the same operational expenditure or consumption model to hardware purchases, they’ll free up money for other IT modernization projects and “stop the clock” on their technical debt, D’Alessandro says. Agencies already pay for cloud services via monthly plans or subscription fees.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 1, 2024

GSA Chief Information Officer David Shive also says nobody at the agency intentionally misled the contracting officer into approving the purchases. also maintains that the purchase violated the Trade Agreements Act of 1979. He also said GSA has no intention to purchase any more Owl Labs cameras. Deputy IG Robert Erickson Jr.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The credential is more evidence that federal interest in purchasing AI technology continues to grow. The Federal Acquisition Institute, a career development resource housed within the General Services Administration, recently released a credential focused on artificial intelligence prompt engineering.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

This report encouraged governments big and small to improve the “environment content” of their purchasing policies. As environmental issues have become more important to governments and administrations within the last few decades, it has gotten easier to identify ways to leverage purchasing to support these goals.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Under the second iteration of the FBI’s potential $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement, CGI will bid on task orders provided by the agency, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company announced Thursday. CGI Federal has been chosen to help the FBI modernize its IT system.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 5, 2024

The sources sought notice , which was published last week, is part of the agency’s market research to figure out what tools are available for purchase. Specifically, the department is looking for a platform “to support a range of AI-enhanced workflows able to securely process and analyze government data of various classification levels.”

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GovCon Wire

MAY 13, 2024

billion Administrative Office of the United States Courts Judiciary IT Services blanket purchase agreement. Lamb Informatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of GovCIO, has secured a spot on a potential five-year, $1.5

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GovCon Wire

MAY 2, 2024

million blanket purchase agreement to provide the Department of Navy with VMware by Broadcom products and services. Carahsoft Technology has secured a potential $172.8

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

This ensures transparency and encourages innovation, because as providers introduce new services and products, they become automatically purchasable under the framework agreement. From healthcare management and social safety net technology to managing vaccine sign-ups during the pandemic , governments simply need to buy IT better.

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FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

ONC said in a press release that it collaborated on the plan with 25 federal agencies that interact with health IT through purchasing, developing and regulating in order to improve health outcomes. The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on a draft federal health IT strategic plan.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

billion COSMOS contract and tech giants are pushing for legislation to streamline federal cloud procurement, aligning with the GSA’s advocacy for simpler cloud purchasing and value-based contracting. Hello, Blog Readers and happy November! We hope you have had a productive month and are looking forward to finishing strong this year.

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ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 21, 2024

The FBI has awarded cBEYONData a position on the second iteration of the potential eight-year, $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2024

When the Office of Federal Procurement Policy launched its Better Contracting Initiative in November 2023, leaders promised this time would be different when it came to developing enterprisewide software licenses. The General Services Administration is about to deliver on that promise. billion in spending.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

The FBI has released the list of 95 awardees on the second iteration of the potential eight-year, $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement. The bureau first announced the award of the ITSSS-2 BPA on May 24 in a SAM.gov notice. According to the award notice, 31 large companies and 64

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This solution is managed by AWS Partners, including Accenture , Deloitte , Kyndryl , Andes, and TCS for a one-stop-shop customer experience, from purchase to operation, to optimization and maintenance. AWS Outposts typically run connected to a parent AWS Region for resource management, access control, and software updates.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Semiconductor company Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) has finalized its acquisition of multicloud services provider VMware as part of a push to create a leading infrastructure technology company.

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ExecutiveBiz

JULY 25, 2024

The FBI has awarded Jacobs a position on the second iteration of the potential eight-year, $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement. Gwen Clavon, senior vice president at Jacobs, said in a statement Wednesday the award extends the company’s nearly 20-year partnership with the agency.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

These roadblocks reveal opportunity though, as teams look toward cooperative purchasing for relief. With the help of a cooperative purchasing organization, you can increase savings at your organization by leveraging pre-awarded cooperative contracts and streamlining your purchasing process, resulting in a stronger overall strategy.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 2, 2024

The Air Force is out with a new multiple award solicitation to modernize all of its base network infrastructure. The request for proposals uses the phrase, “enterprise IT-as-a-service” only a handful of times, but for all intent and purposes, this potentially 10-year contract with a $12.5 billion ceiling is considered Wave 2.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

HII has completed the acquisition of a South Carolina-based metal fabricator as part of a push to expand its shipbuilding capacity. The company said Monday the acquired facility will support the production of nuclear-powered submarine modules and aircraft carrier structures for U.S. Navy programs.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Initially, the reforms focused on two key actions: public institutions were required to create an annual GPP implementation plan with self-defined targets as well as a performance record of their green purchases. million and 4,415 new jobs created in the green economy, according to official figures.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. Protests of contracts went down last fiscal year. And the oversight and accountability of subcontracting efforts by prime contractors is getting more scrutiny.

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WashngtonExec

JANUARY 11, 2024

ManTech is one of the winners of a 10-year blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Justice valued at $500 million.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW) has closed its acquisition of Talon Cyber Security for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to further extend the capability of its secure access service edge platform in safeguarding managed and unmanaged devices.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Funding lapses interrupt the usual predictability of government operations, which harms both agencies and federal contractors that are left in limbo with stop work orders. Unfortunately, unlike many other topics, the FAR has little say when it comes to procedures for contractors to follow during or following a government shutdown.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Windows 10 migration was all about making sure you had compatible hardware, and everything purchased or upgraded to handle that operating system is compatible with Windows 11. Recently overheard among agency IT staff: “Windows 11? Didn’t we just finish deploying Windows 10?” Yes, you did.

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