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By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration worked with the Defense Department and vendors to reconfigure the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions Blanket Purchase Agreement that resulted in a dramatically lower ceiling value from the initial award, according to the agency's manager of the contract. GSA initially awarded DEOS, a 10-year contract to provide Microsoft's productivity suite Office 365 to DOD, to General Dynamics IT in 2019. The ceiling value of the award was $7.6 billion. The solicitation was revised amid protests and the contract was re-awarded to GDIT last month wit...

By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration continues to have problems with managing identity cards it issues to contractors to access its buildings and IT systems, according to a report from agency's Office of Inspector General. The report, issued on Nov. 4, covers an audit period between February, 2017 and August, 2019. It builds on an OIG 2016 audit that found the agency couldn't account for 15,000 of the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards it issued to its contractors. The report also said the agency didn't collect PIV cards from 445 contract employees who failed backg...

  Although most agencies held steady or advanced their grades in the latest Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard, a new telecommunications transition metric was giving some of them headaches. On Dec. 22, the House Oversight Committee's Subcommittee on Government Operations released its 11th FITARA scorecard tallying how 24 large federal agencies have managed their IT over the last several months. The latest scorecard shows 16 of the two dozen agencies responding held steady overall grades, with the majority in the B and C range. The General Services Admini...

By Mark Rockwell Dec 16, 2020 The Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with tests of a commercial portable passive radio monitoring system that can find suspect cellular, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices at field locations. DHS' Science and Technology directorate's Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) awarded Bastille Networks a Phase 5 other transaction agreement to continue evaluating the company's "Flyaway Kit" that can sniff out potentially intrusive wireless devices. Bastille Networks said it has been selling the system to the Department of Defense and the federal intelligen...

By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration's replacement for its Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) multiple award vehicle is in the starting blocks, according to the contract's development manager. In the coming weeks, the agency will convene focus groups, listening sessions, and industry days on its OASIS successor professional services contract, according to Tiffany Hixson, assistant commissioner, in GSA's Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories. Ordering under OASIS and its companion OASIS Small Business concludes in 2024. Federal custo...