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  1. The government's new contract for discounted wireless services and mobile devices is expected to save $300 million over five years. Getty Images

    GSA awards governmentwide mobile contract

    The General Services Administration on Wednesday awarded a governmentwide contract for discounted wireless services and mobile devices, which the agency expects will save $300 million over five years.

    • May. 22, 2013
  2. OMB's director has asked U.S. Chief Information Officer Steve VanRoekel to lead OMB's management team on an interim basis. Thomas Brown/Staff

    VanRoekel to lead OMB's management team

    Steven VanRoekel will lead the Office of Management and Budget's management team, following the departure of OMB's No. 2 official this month.

    • May. 21, 2013
  3. GSA starts effort to improve cybersecurity in procurements

    The General Services Administration is seeking industry input as it develops standard contract language to ensure cybersecurity measures are taken in federal procurements.

    • May. 20, 2013
  4.  Staff file photo

    DoD approves Apple iPhones, iPads for military use

    The Defense Department will allow government-issued iPhones and iPads to connect to the military's networks, the Pentagon announced Friday.

    • May. 17, 2013
  5. In this stretch of the U.S.-Mexican border, the U.S. is on the left. Gerald L Nino / CBP.gov

    Is a billion-dollar border security program finally due?

    The Department of Homeland Security has taken a positive step in one of the longer running procurement sagas of recent years, issuing downselect notices to several contractors to compete in the next phase of a controversial border security program, source

    • May. 14, 2013
  6. Former Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens testifies before the House Armed Services Committee in 2012. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    As federal belts tighten, contractor CEOs enjoy million-dollar raises

    On the same day in March that Lockheed Martin warned that the sequester could lead to thousands of employee furloughs and layoffs, the nation’s largest federal contractor disclosed that it had just boosted the compensation of its former CEO by more than $2 million.

    • Apr. 23, 2013
  7. General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller STAFF

    Feds investigate office supply vendor

    The government is investigating whether an office supply contractor has been improperly selling products made in China in violation of the Trade Agreements Act, court records show.

    • Apr. 18, 2013
  8. GAO questions metrics of training effectiveness for contracting staffs

    The federal government spends tens of millions of dollars to train contracting officials each year, but agencies don’t always know whether all the coursework is making a difference, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday.

    • Apr. 16, 2013
  9. Former OPM director John Berry is seen in a file photo. File

    Focus of IG investigation now oversees GSA’s IT supply schedule program

    An ongoing investigation by the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general into contract steering and wasteful spending raises questions about a former OPM official who left the agency in September 2011 to oversee the General Services Administration’s biggest federal supply schedules program.

    • Apr. 16, 2013
  10. U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo. Getty Images

    Lawmaker presses agencies to abide by small biz law

    The chairman of the House Small Business Committee on Tuesday called on 35 federal agencies to provide details on their compliance with new federal provisions aimed to help small businesses compete for federal contracts.

    • Apr. 16, 2013
  11. Contractor pleads guilty in bribery, bid-rigging case

    A northern Virginia technology contracting firm and its former president pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington to bribery charges in what prosecutors call the largest bid rigging scam in federal contracting history.

    • Apr. 11, 2013
  12. There is speculation that sequestration may lead to more contract disputes and bid protests.

    As budgets tighten, contract attorneys expect uptick in bid protests

    Two weeks after sequestration began, contract lawyer Bill Spriggs got a call from a vendor client upset that a federal contracting official had just ordered it to cut its price by 10 percent for “sequestration-related cuts” without a change in service levels.

    • Apr. 3, 2013
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    • Contracts

    GAO denies bid protest of controversial IRS contract

    The Government Accountability Office on Tuesday denied a protest from bidders challenging the award of a big Internal Revenue Service technology contract that a top House Republican wants investigated.

    • Apr. 2, 2013
  13. Judge orders GSA to re-evaluate e-travel contract award

    A federal judge has ordered the General Services Administration to re-evaluate bids for its billion-dollar e-travel contract awarded last June.

    • Mar. 28, 2013
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