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  • USDA Seeks Info on Potential Intranet Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USDA Seeks Info on Potential Intranet Support Sources

    The Agriculture Department has issued a request for information on support services for an initiative that aims to establish a private two-way communication site for USDA employees. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the department seeks to leverage a OneUSDA Intranet network to help department officials simultaneously relay messages to their team members. USDA expects […] More

  • Report: GSA, USDA Begin Centers of Excellence Program’s Phase 2 With 6 RFQs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: GSA, USDA Begin Centers of Excellence Program’s Phase 2 With 6 RFQs

    The General Services Administration and the Agriculture Department have issued six requests for quotes as part of the second phase of the White House’s Centers of Excellence program, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. The solicitations released Monday intend to support the implementation of the five COEs that focus on information technology modernization efforts such as […] More

  • Air Force Deploys Contracting IT Platform on Appian - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Deploys Contracting IT Platform on Appian

    The U.S. Air Force has fielded its Contracting-Information Technology system on Appian’s cloud platform that has impact level 4 certification to host controlled unclassified data. The CON-IT system on Appian Cloud is designed to replace the service branch’s seven legacy contract writing tools in order to facilitate the acquisition process, reduce costs and speed up […] More

  • GSA, USDA Conduct Industry Day for CoE Program’s Phase II; Gary Washington Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA, USDA Conduct Industry Day for CoE Program’s Phase II; Gary Washington Comments

    At least 200 business executives participated in an industry day held Wednesday by the General Services Administration and the Agriculture Department to discuss plans for the second phase of the centers for excellence program for information technology modernization. GSA said Wednesday the event serves as an introduction to a two-day “reverse industry day” that seeks […] More

  • HighPoint’s Cal Shintani: GSA, USDA Make Strides in Customer Experience Through Centers of Excellence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HighPoint’s Cal Shintani: GSA, USDA Make Strides in Customer Experience Through Centers of Excellence

    Cal Shintani, chief growth officer at HighPoint Global, has said there are signs of improvement in the federal government’s effort to build up customer experience. Shintani wrote in an article that there are reports that show progress in customer experience and one of those is the Government CX Insights report, which found that citizen experience scores […] More

  • BGOV: GSA Unveils New Contracting Opportunities for USDA IT Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BGOV: GSA Unveils New Contracting Opportunities for USDA IT Modernization

    The General Services Administration announced on June 15 a set of new contracting opportunities related to the Agriculture Department Centers of Excellence for information technology modernization initiatives, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. GSA will launch eight digital service procurement efforts via contract vehicles such as Alliant, Professional Services Schedule, Schedule IT 70 and Veterans Technology Services 2. The programs support the […] More

  • Report: USDA's Jonathan Benett to Join Adobe's Public Sector Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: USDA’s Jonathan Benett to Join Adobe’s Public Sector Team

    Jonathan Benett, chief enterprise architect of the Agriculture Department, has stepped down to join Adobe Systems‘ public sector business in June, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. He started his federal service in 2008 as head of project management at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after almost 10 years of industry career. After USPTO, he served as director of […] More

  • ICF Gets GSA Contracts to Help Establish Customer Experience, Analytics CoEs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Gets GSA Contracts to Help Establish Customer Experience, Analytics CoEs

    ICF has received a pair of multimillion dollar contracts from the General Services Administration to help the US. government establish two centers of excellence that will focus on service delivery analytics and customer experience. Both projects are part of the White House’s Information Technology Modernization Plan and each contract has one base year plus two option years, ICF said Wednesday. “We’re thrilled […] More

  • USDA, NSF to Fund Food, Energy & Water Innovation Studies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USDA, NSF to Fund Food, Energy & Water Innovation Studies

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has partnered with the National Science Foundation for a $34 million funding opportunity to examine the connections between food, water and energy systems. NSF and NIFA have pledged to contribute $29 million and $5 million, respectively, to the  Innovations at the Nexus of Food, […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Support USDA Network Data Transport Platform Migration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Support USDA Network Data Transport Platform Migration

    A Koniag subsidiary has been selected to support the Agriculture Department‘s Office of the Chief Information Officer in efforts to migrate USDA’s universal telecommunications network to a wide-area network data transport service platform. Koniag said Thursday its Tuknik Government Services business will help USDA OCIO transition from the current UTN infrastructure to USDANet. “As a former federal CIO, I understand the cost […] More

  • GSA Issues RFQ for White House’s Centers of Excellence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Issues RFQ for White House’s Centers of Excellence

    The General Services Administration has asked industry for quotations to provide staffing support for the White House’s proposed centers of excellence, Nextgov reported Thursday. The proposed CoEs will advance several technology programs such as information technology infrastructure optimization; cloud adoption; service delivery analytics; contact centers; and customer experience. GSA could award by the end of January three-year […] More

  • Deltek: Federal Cloud Spending via NIH CIO-CS GWAC Reached $28M in FY 2015-2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: Federal Cloud Spending via NIH CIO-CS GWAC Reached $28M in FY 2015-2017

    A new Deltek report says federal agencies spent a total of $28.3 million on cloud platforms and services from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2017 through the National Institutes of Health’s Chief Information Officer IT Commodities and Solutions governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle. NIH spent $18.8 million on cloud platforms over the past three fiscal years, followed by the National […] More