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GSA issues IBM a letter of concern for problems with procurement system
The General Services Administration's new System for Award Management (SAM) is not running smoothly one week after it launched. GSA told IBM to fix the system or face possible penalties.
Tags: acquisition , contracting , industry , GSA , technology , System for Award Management , Jason Miller
Contractors experience limited communication between industry, agencies
IBM Federal General Manager Todd Ramsey busts myths about government procurement. Although well-conceived, he said current acquisition procedures do more harm than good.
Tags: acquisition , acquisition policy , Inside the Worlds Biggest Buyer , best practices , industry , Mythbusters , Todd Ramsey , Keith BieryGolick
Federal Drive interviews -- June 15
Todd Ramsey of IBM and Jonathan Breul, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, offer the contractor's point of view on acquisition. Carolyn Colvin of the Social Security Administration details a new program to help veterans apply for disability. Roy Smith of ITG discusses the Rapid Acquisition Program.
Tags: Federal Drive , people , Todd Ramsey , Jonathan Breul , Carolyn Colvin , Roy Smith , ITG , SSA
Think tank points to valuable Recovery Act lessons
The IBM Center for the Business of Government released a report examining the lessons from the execution of the stimulus over the last three years.
Tags: management , technology , best practices , IBM Center for the Business of Government , Esther Carey , Recovery Act
Federal Drive interviews - May 14, 2012
Author Ines Mergel tells us if tweets are the proverbial trees that fall in the woods or a powerful change agent. Tom Harris, the head of public sector research at Deloitte UK, talks about recent case studies on how other governments are effectively downsizing.
Tags: Federal Drive , Ines Mergel , Tom Harris , Deloitte
GSA hires IBM to run the smart building initiative
Under the one-year contract, Big Blue will develop a system to collect data for the Public Building Service to analyze to find areas to become more energy efficient.
Tags: technology , contracting , GSA , green government , smart buildings , Jason Miller , Dan Tangherlini , Linda Chero
Lockheed joins Northrop, HP for NGEN bid
Lockheed Martin will join a team of several other large companies in a bid for the Navy's forthcoming multibillion dollar Next Generation Enterprise Network contract.
Tags: Navy , technology , DoD , NMCI , Lockheed Martin , AT&T , Hewlett Packard , computer sciences corporation , Harris Corporation , General Dynamics , Verizon , Shawn Hendricks , Jared Serbu , AT&T , Northrop Grumman
NIST taking on big data problem
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is sponsoring an upcoming conference to bring together industry and agencies to figure out ways to improve how they use unstructured data.
Tags: NIST , technology , industry , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Ellen Vorhees , TREC , big data , Microsoft , Sean McCalley
Army awards $250M data center contract
The service hires eight vendors to provide private cloud computing services.
Tags: technology , contracting , industry , Army , data center consolidation , area processing centers , Jason Miller , Criterion Systems , General Dynamics One Source , Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services , HP Enterprise , Lockheed Martin , MicroTech , Northrop Grumman
'Moneyball' strategy works for feds?
Agencies have tons of data but don't always use it wisely. A new report examines how a few agencies are analyzing statistics to reach their goals. The Partnership for Public Service and IBM suggest in their report agencies try the 2002 Oakland A's approach to using statistics to build a winning team.
Tags: Partnership for Pubic Service , data analytics , management , performance management , data , HHS , CMS , HUD , Shelley Metzenbaum , Emily Kopp , David Zlowe , OMB
