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  • In The News: Judith R. Zawatsky, Chief of Staff at FAS, GSA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In The News: Judith R. Zawatsky, Chief of Staff at FAS, GSA

    The past year has been shaping up to be another busy period for GSA and FAS, as budgets are tightening up within the federal government and cost-effective moves are of paramount importance for setting up future contracts. At the forefront of the Federal Acquisition Service is an ongoing transformation of the Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) […] More

  • Ex-GSA Officials Tom Sharpe, Kevin Youel Page Establish Consulting Firm Onetegrity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ex-GSA Officials Tom Sharpe, Kevin Youel Page Establish Consulting Firm Onetegrity

    Tom Sharpe, former commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, has established a consulting firm with Kevin Youel Page, former FAS deputy commissioner, FCW reported Tuesday. Sharpe and Page told FCW in an interview that they have registered on the agency’s System for Award Management, established financial operations and held meetings with company executives […] More

  • QTS' David McOmber: Federal Gov't Cloud Adoption Focused on Hybrid Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS’ David McOmber: Federal Gov’t Cloud Adoption Focused on Hybrid Infrastructure

    Governments agencies have turned to hybrid cloud platforms in order to both take advantage of cloud capabilities and support legacy systems, QTS Realty Trust Executive Vice President Dave McOmber said in a Federal News Radio panel discussion posted Thursday. McOmber, who is in charge of public sector and federal sales at QTS, participated in the discussion with Bill […] More

  • CenturyLink Awarded GSA VoIP Service Contract; Erich Sanchack Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Awarded GSA VoIP Service Contract; Erich Sanchack Comments

    The General Services Administration has awarded CenturyLink a potential five-year, $6 million to provide a hosted contact center and voice over internet protocol service to the agency’s Federal Acquisition Service. CenturyLink said Monday it aims to help FAS manage approximately 800,000 inbound and outbound calls annually through the hosted contact center. The contract has a one-year base value of $1.3 million plus four one-year options […] More

  • Salient CRGT Secures DoD Engineering, O&M Support BPA; Brad Antle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Secures DoD Engineering, O&M Support BPA; Brad Antle Comments

    Salient CRGT has received a potential $45 million blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service to provide integration, engineering, operations and maintenance support for the Defense Department. The company said Monday it will work to integrate and modify commercial off-the-shelf non-developmental items, perform integrated technology services, manage projects, install hardware and software, update […] More

  • GSA Selects Distributed Solutions for Contract Writing-as-a-Service BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Selects Distributed Solutions for Contract Writing-as-a-Service BPA

    Distributed Solutions Inc. has secured a potential $10.5 million blanket purchase agreement from the integrated technology services branch of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service to develop a contract writing system-as-a-service platform for GSA and its customer agencies. DSI said Wednesday the agreement calls for the company to provide a software-as-a-service, cloud-based enterprise-grade system for government […] More

  • GSA Seeks Industry Feedback on Charge Card Program Draft RFP; Tom Sharpe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Seeks Industry Feedback on Charge Card Program Draft RFP; Tom Sharpe Comments

    The General Services Administration has asked industry and government agencies to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for the third generation of GSA’s charge card program. The agency said Monday it will use the feedback to the draft RFP in order to refine the requirements in the GSA SmartPay 3 program, including charge card […] More

  • GSA Posts RFI on Supply Chain Risk Management System for Gov't Market Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Posts RFI on Supply Chain Risk Management System for Gov’t Market Offerings

    The General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service is requesting information on tools that could track and authenticate information and communication products distributed in the federal market to manage supply chain risk. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday, GSA said the targeted supply chain management tool is an integrated and portable device set that could detect tampered, counterfeit and grey market products. GSA added it wants […] More

  • GSA Federal Acquisition Service Issues RFI on Cybersecurity Services for Gov't Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Federal Acquisition Service Issues RFI on Cybersecurity Services for Gov’t Agencies

    The General Services Administration is requesting information on existing cybersecurity services in the market that could meet the needs of government agencies. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday, GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service office of integrated technology services sought feedback from stakeholders on cybersecurity products and services that could address threats that government and industry currently face. The agency seeks to […] More

  • Verisign Lands GSA '.Gov' Domain Mgmt Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verisign Lands GSA ‘.Gov’ Domain Mgmt Contract

    Verisign has received a one-year, $2.1 million bridge contract from the U.S. General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service to continue the company’s management, operations and maintenance services for the generic “.gov” Top Level Domain. Contract services online domain name registration, billing, help desk functions, reporting and daily operations of the root domain name servers for .gov websites, according to a justification […] More

  • GSA Taps American Systems for Transition Coordination Support Task Order; Peter Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Taps American Systems for Transition Coordination Support Task Order; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has been awarded a potential five-year, $34.3 million task order to provide transition planning and policy development support to the General Services Administration’s transition coordination center. GSA established TCC in an effort to help federal agencies transition from multiple telecommunication and legacy network contracts to the NS2020 Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, the company […] More

  • Mary Davie: GSA Works With DISA, CSPs to Prepare Future Cloud IDIQ Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Davie: GSA Works With DISA, CSPs to Prepare Future Cloud IDIQ Vehicle

    Mary Davie of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service has said both government and industry partners have helped in FAS’ preparations for a future cloud computing contract. She wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that GSA has worked with the Defense Information Systems Agency and cloud vendors to generate feedback that would help shape a new cloud services vehicle […] More