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Interior to start over for cloud email with an RFI
Agency will do market research to see how the cloud market has changed. This decision prompted Onix and Google to drop their lawsuit.
Tags: technology , contracting , industry , Interior , Onix , Google , Softchoice , Microsoft , cloud computing , Email-as-a-service , Jason Miller
Google, Onix withdrawal protest of Interior cloud email award
The two protestors said in court documents Interior has agreed to take steps to fix potential contracting issues. But the Justice Department disputed Google and Onix's claims saying no agreement has been reached. Interior hired Softchoice to provide Microsoft software for email and collaboration in the cloud almost a year ago.
Tags: technology , industry , contracting , Interior , Google , Onix , Softchoice , Microsoft , Susan Braden , Jason Miller , cloud computing , Email-as-a-service
Bid protests of HHS office space contract sustained
A GAO report recommends that GSA review the criteria it used for HHS office space bid.
Tags: HHS , GAO , GSA , contracting , one largo metro , metroview , fishers lane/jbg , Jory Heckman , office space
GAO to reaffirms right to hear task order protests
Even though the legislative authority expired in May, GAO determined it still can decide task order complaints because of the Competition in Contracting Act.
Tags: contracting , industry , Ralph White , GAO , GSA , DISA , Congress , Michael Golden , Pepper Hamilton , task order protest , Jason Miller
Critical needs first in DHS IT modernization
A day after the Department of Homeland Security cancelled its $450 million contract to modernize and unify its backoffice IT systems, the department's acting CFO told Congress DHS will focus first on modernizing the infrastructure of the department's components that are severely out of date. A new strategy for an integrated, departmentwide system has yet to be determined, she said.
Tags: technology , contracting , industry , DHS , GAO , financial management , TASC , Congress , Peggy Sherry , Coast Guard , FEMA , Immigration and Customs Enforcement , Jared Serb
Senate approves extension of task order protest rights
Tags: contracting , industry , Joseph Lieberman , James Lankford , GAO , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , task order , Jason Miller
GAO upholds one of four protests under E-Travel RFP
The General Services Administration has lost a protest to CarlsonWagonlit Sato Travel on the follow-on contract for agencies up upgrade their governmentwide E-Travel systems.
Tags: contracting , industry , GSA , GAO , CarlsonWagonlit , E-Travel , Jason Miller
Google's claims of FISMA certification questioned
Microsoft makes court documents public as part of battle to provide cloud services to the Interior Department. Google contends its Google Apps for Government offers more security than FISMA requires.
Tags: technology , industry , GSA , Interior , Dave Mihalchik , David Howard , Google , Microsoft , cloud computing , FISMA , cybersecurity , FedRAMP , Email-as-a-service , Jason Miller
Assad: KC-X to lead the way in procurements
Shay Assad, director of the office of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, told industry professionals Thursday that DoD would provide them with a clearer picture of what the Pentagon wants when it issues solicitations to industry. Past acquisition processes, he said, had forced vendors to guess what factors DoD thought were truly important.
Tags: DoD , contracting , industry , management , GAO , insourcing , Coalition for Government Procurement , Shay Assad , source selection , acquisition workforce , Jared Serbu
GAO sustains protests of DHS $450M award to CACI
The Government Accountability Office sustained protests from two losing bidders under the Transformation and System Consolidation (TASC) program, say government and industry sources.
Tags: technology , contracting , industry , Richard Spires , DHS , OMB , GAO , CACI , GCE , Savantage , financial management , TASC , Jason Miller
