The Army wants to use General Services Administration contract vehicles to purchase tactical radios for a combat brigade in Afghanistan, Nextgov reports. Through the vehicle, the Army would purchase 280 of the radios for the brigade, set to deploy next year. Two of the three brigades scheduled for deployment are equipped with Harris Corp.’s AN/PRC-117G [...]
IBM has won a one-year contract from the General Services Administration to help the agency track energy usage at the federal government’s 50 highest energy-consuming buildings, GSA announced Monday. The company develop a system to monitor building performance and stream data to a central facility for analysis and decision making. GSA awarded the contract to [...]
Alion Science and Technology’s Washington Consulting Inc. subsidiary and CGI Federal will develop a content management solution on cloud computing-based platforms for the Labor Department. CGI selected WCI as a prime subcontractor for the project, Alion announced Monday. WCI will lead the case and content system integration efforts, with the goal of automating the department’s paper-intensive [...]
Raytheon’s technical services company has won a prime position on a potential $33 million blanket purchase agreement to provide mission readiness support services to U.S. Pacific Command. The company said the General Services Administration’s Schedule BPA Agreement has one base year and four one-year options. Bob Williams, vice president of warfighter support services, said the company [...]
The SI Organization won a General Services Administration contract to provide the federal government engineering services, the SI announced Monday. Under GSA’s Schedule 871 contract vehicle, the SI will perform work in areas including: systems engineering and integration test and evaluation strategic planning integrated logistics support concept of operations design acquisition management
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a General Services Administration task order to provide hosting services for the GSA’s primary acquisition applications, the company announced Tuesday. CSC estimates the four-year order is worth up to $45 million over a two-month base period, four one-year options and a 10-month option. The order was awarded under the GSA’s Alliant Governmentwide Acquisition [...]
A Bloomberg Government study has found that U.S. government spending on multiple-award contracts (MACs) grew twice as fast as total contract spending between 2006 and 2010, with MAC spending increasing 49 percent to $121 billion over the period. “Multiple-award contracts are starting to become the center of the universe,” Jaime Garcia, president of Washington-based Seville Government Consulting told [...]
