Gov IT procurement talks enter third year
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Meeting next week to thrash out contracts The government is expected to concede some precious ground to the IT industry over difficult contractual negotiations that have just entered their third year.â¦
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Financial auditors are to launch another inquiry into the Â£6.8bn NHS IT upgrade project.
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The Government is to begin consulting with the business sector and others over potential free trade talks with Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) ministers.
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Former prime minister quizzed by officers for third time.
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(InfoWorld) - The value of the top 20 U.S. government IT contracts in fiscal year 2007 will be $118 billion, less than half the value of the top 20 government IT contracts in 2006, according to a report released Tuesday. The top 20 U.S. government IT contracts in fiscal year 2006 totaled $240 billion, according to Input, a Virginia firm that assists private companies win government contracts. Contracts with the U.S. Army, General Services Administration (GSA), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) account for half of the procurements in the top 20 list for 2007, Input said. A couple of factors have contributed to the lower 2007 numbers -- belt-tightening in the U.S. Congress and a number of large multiyear contracts awarded in 2006, said Ashlea Higgs, manager of new markets at Input. "The IT spending has more of a chance to go through existing contract vehicles," he said. Among the contracts awarded in fiscal year 2006 were a $45 billion contract for a variety of IT services at the Department of Homeland Security, and a $42 billion contract at the Department of Energy. Two GSA contracts from Input's 2006 list, totaling an estimated $65 billion, were held over and are back on the 2007 list. Congress has also focused on reducing the government's $339 billion budget deficit this year. The U.S. government's IT budget grew by less than $1 billion between 2006 and 2007, Input said. "It's another sign in the 'there's less money out there' column," Higgs said. "Budgets are tightening." While IT vendors may be disappointed with the total value of the 2007 contracts, each contract has "still has enough revenue potential to attract hundreds of vendors," he said. Among the largest IT contracts for fiscal year 2007, which started Sunday: -- GSA's Alliant full and open contract, estimated value $50 billion over 10 years. The request for proposals was released in September, and Input predicts the contract will be awarded in June. This contract provides a broad range of IT services in areas including biometrics, business process re-engineering, communications and distance learning. It is available to all government agencies. This contract was held over from 2006. -- The Army's Services for Operations, Planning, Training, and Resource Support Services for Warfighter Operations, phase 2, estimated value $30 billion over five years. Estimated request for proposal date, August. Estimated award date, January 2008. The contract focuses on operational planning, training, flight operations, modeling and simulation, and other areas. -- Alliant small business contract, estimated value $15 billion over 10 years. Request for proposals was released in September, estimated award date in June. This contract is similar to the full and open contract, but the scope is narrowed to two areas, information systems engineering and systems operation and maintenance. -- U.S. Department of Treasury's Project Support Solutions contract, estimated value $10.8 billion over five years. -- GSA's contract for historically underutilized business zone firms, estimated $2.5 billion over five years. -- The Department of Agriculture's Multiple Award Information Technology Support Services contract, phase 3, estimated $2 billion over five years.
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Recently, the Government Procurement Office of Beijing Municipality issued the Notice of Beijing Municipal Information Office on the Result of the Government Procurement Project for Copyrighted Software Vendors of Computer Operating Systems, Office Suites
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Scotland's local authorities are to learn details of their budgets for the next three years.
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The Scottish Government is to hold fresh talks about freezing council tax with local authority representatives.
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Gordon Brown says he wants to set three-year pay deals for public sector workers to keep inflation low.
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Security continues to hold steady over software as the third top IT priority, with organizations busy coping with cyber threats, keeping up with software
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Ex-PM Tony Blair has been interviewed for a third time in the cash-for-honours probe, it emerges.
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In national law in three years The European Parliament has voted to give businesses new powers to challenge public procurement decisions when they consider that a public authority has awarded a contract unfairly. National laws are expected to change within three years.â¦
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Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to \
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The request to shift more than $3 billion highlights the challenges of keeping order and rebuilding the economy.
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BALTIMORE, June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 10 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Baltimore area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the third quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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The next version of the database should be shipped on the three-year refresh schedule.
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A minister hails progress on e-commerce after a study suggests UK firms are the third most sophisticated users of IT.