October 2005
Consortium Helps Small Businesses Win Federal IT Contracts
CDW Government, Inc., has added six new companies to its Small Business Partner Consortium and exercised the one-year contract options of nine companies...
Contracts from October 2005
Aramsco, Inc., an international supplier of homeland security products, announced that it has been awarded a competitive contract from New York State...
Corrections Department to Save with Performance-Based Contract
Corrections Department to Save with Performance-Based Contract Under the terms of a 15-year performance contract, Mississippi Department of Corrections...
EPA to Contract Out Hundreds of Jobs
EPA to Contract Out Hundreds of Jobs The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to outsource nearly five percent of its workforce, according...
FEMA Announces Competitive Contracting Strategy
The Department of Homeland Securitys Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced plans for a competitive contracting strategy for ongoing recovery...
Former GSA Chief of Staff Pleads Not Guilty
Former GSA Chief of Staff Pleads Not Guilty A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted David H. Safavian, the former chief of staff for the...
Guide Promotes Efficient Contract Management at State and Local Levels
Guide Promotes Efficient Contract Management at State and Local Levels Responding to the rapid growth of government contracting with the private sector...
Massachusetts to Host Environmentally Preferable Products Fair
Massachusetts to Host Environmentally Preferable Products Fair Plan to attend the 11th Annual Environmentally Preferable Products (EPP) Vendor Fair and...
NASPO Honors Procurement Practices
NASPO Honors Procurement Practices The National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) honored six innovative state procurement programs during...
Port Authority Debuts Marketing Effort
Port Authority Debuts Marketing Effort The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, operating many of the busiest and most vital transportation links...
Rome to Host International Public Procurement Conference
Rome to Host International Public Procurement Conference NIGP will join the World Bank, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), and several academic...
Software Simplifies Grant Searches for Municipalities
Software Simplifies Grant Searches for Municipalities eCivis, Inc., a company dedicated to helping local governments improve their grants performance,...
Spotlight Focuses on Federal Procurement
Spotlight Focuses on Federal Procurement The federal procurement community is under a spotlighta very bright spotlight. Never before have contract allocations...
United Nations Procurement Processes Undergo Extensive Reform Program
United Nations Procurement Processes Undergo Extensive Reform Program In response to internal and external pressures, the United Nations (UN) has been...
An Education in Earned Value: Procurement Officers' Expanding Role
An Education in Earned Value: Procurement Officers Expanding Role By Bill Damar and John Peterson As a result of heightened pressure from the Office of...
Green Purchasing Leading By Example
In many ways, the modern green purchasing movement dates its beginning to 1989 when King County, WA, enacted its Recycled Product Procurement Policy....
Knowledge is POWER
I remember when I was just a contract officer, one of my first bosses told me that, Knowledge is power, and you dont share power. He played everything...
Maximize Acquisition Power with Municipal Leasing Programs
Maximize Acquisition Power with Municipal Leasing Programs By Jonathan Fales Long a staple of commercial enterprises equipment and technology acquisition...
Preparation is Key to Post Award Debriefing
By Michael Hordell Its an all too common belief among organizations that want to provide goods and services to the government that when an agency has...
Procurement Card Fraud
By Lloyd Rain Procurement cards, also called and have become increasingly popular in higher education and in every public agency across the nation. Youve...
Public Purchasers Prepare to Share the Magic
Public Purchasers Prepare to Share the Magic A parade of purchasing professionals may soon be whistling while they work, as they march into Orlando, FL....
Ten Steps to Energy Cost Savings
Managing an organizationss energy supply is a difficult and complex undertaking in the best of times. When energy management parameters change dramatically...
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