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New Deal
December 1, 2005 With the giant Networx contract on the horizon, GSA rewires its approach to telecom services. Hanging telephone wires transmit the death and laughter of men and women, says a poem from the last century. Telephone service was relatively straightforward then-a basic technology operated by a monolithic system. Today, telecommunication is ...
Acting acquisition commissioner at GSA steps down
November 28, 2005 Barbara Shelton's reign over procurement at the General Services Administration will end Dec. 21 when she steps down as acting commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service. She will return to her previous job as GSA's regional administrator of the mid-Atlantic region. Marty Wagner, the associate administrator for GSA's office of ...
Governmentwide strategic sourcing effort launched
November 18, 2005 The Treasury Department and General Services Administration kicked off an interagency effort this week to target five commodities for strategic sourcing, a cost-savings technique that leverages the government's buying power. The five commodities are copiers, cell phones, office supplies, information technology products and express delivery. Treasury procurement executive Tom Sharpe, ...
Deep Thinkers
November 2, 2005 Lean six sigma, a management term with a cult-like following in the private sector, is quickly gaining converts among Defense and civilian agencies. It started as a tool to improve how work gets done in Japanese car factories in the 1940s and morphed into a symbol of corporate efficiency in ...
Deep Thinkers
November 1, 2005 A new philosophy helps people manage their agencies and their lives. Lean six sigma, a management term with a cult-like following in the private sector, is quickly gaining converts among Defense and civilian agencies. It started as a tool to improve how work gets done in Japanese car factories in ...
Procurement fraud investigation at Florida base expands
October 28, 2005 A widening fraud investigation at the U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., is raising new questions about contractors' role in federal procurement. William Burke, a private contractor advising on acquisitions, pleaded guilty to bribery-related charges earlier this month. He admitted to favoring certain companies ...
Bush names procurement fraud fighter to second-ranking Justice slot
October 24, 2005 President Bush nominated Paul J. McNulty, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to be deputy attorney general at the Justice Department Friday. McNulty is best known in federal contracting circles for his creation of the Procurement Fraud Working Group, which brings agencies together to fight misuse of the ...
Veteran procurement official likely to be named to OMB contracting post
October 24, 2005 President Bush is close to nominating Paul Denett, an experienced federal contracting official, to head the Office of Management and Budget's procurement policy office, according to a source familiar with the situation. The source said Denett is the only person to have interviewed several times with Bush administration officials, and ...
Treasury announces new telecom solicitation
October 21, 2005 The Treasury Department amended its solicitation for its telecommunications contract Thursday, taking it one step further away from sharing the General Services Administration's contract for telecommunications services. The amendment dealt another setback to efforts by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., and senior GSA officials to shift Treasury's telecommunications work to GSA, ...
GAO: Army failed to adequately explain contract award
October 20, 2005 The Government Accountability Office earlier this month sustained a bid protest of a fingerprint identification contract because the Army failed to understand part of a proposal and did not adequately explain the losing company's weaknesses. Cogent Systems Inc., an identification system provider based in South Pasadena, Calif., protested the contract, ...
