As part of my team’s job supporting the BuyAccessible Wizard, we often get questions asking if a specific product complies with Section 508. This is a question we can’t answer. Remember it is the agency itself that must comply with Section 508, not the product or the services. When an agency is determining the requirementsRead… Read more »
Authored by Anthony Critelli June 16, 1911, was the founding of government contractor and corporate giant IBM. The company was formed via the merger of Tabulating Machine Company, Computing Scale Company of America and International Time Recording Company into Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) by trust organizer Charles F. Flint. Though the company is celebrating a centuryRead… Read more »
Between a GOP debate, a Stanley Cup final (and ensuing riots in Vancouver) and a Senator resigning in disgrace, one disturbing story has gone relatively overlooked. The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus is reporting that at least 85 American clinics in Iraq are suffering from X-ray radiation leaks… and have been for the past four years.Read… Read more »
We all know that one of the most influential individual purchaser of goods is the federal government. Combine the federal government’s purchasing with that of the states, and you get not only a lot of purchasing power. But sheer volume of good purchased only partly represents the effects of government purchasing, because purchasing decisions areRead… Read more »
CU, FACEBOOK, AND MORE. What happened at the Federal Election Commission meeting yesterday? The agency’s press release is here. Roll Call has a story on the meeting here. Kate Kaye of ClickZ has a report on the Facebook advisory opinion request here. DISCLOSURE DEADLINE. Roll Call. “More than one-fifth of House lawmakers — 92 ofRead… Read more »
This article was previously published on Tri Tuns blog. OBSERVATION User Adoption (UA) is critical to achieving your Return on Investment (ROI). What if you simply do not have the resources and time to establish all of the necessary components for a successful UA program? Enlisting the services of a UA consultant can help mitigateRead… Read more »
RECORD FOR FOREIGN TRIPS. Roll Call. “The costs of overseas trips taken by Senators and their staffers jumped by about 20 percent last year, reaching an all-time high of more than $5 million in publicly reported costs, which is still likely less than half the actual total.” “CASTLES AT THE CAPITOL.” Press release here. “CastlesRead… Read more »
Authored by GovWin’s Sean Tucker What will it take to survive in the federal IT market in fiscal year 2012? The smartest companies are already gameplanning for the new reality. The 2011 federal budget process was one of the messiest on record. Political battles left the government operating without a true budget for most ofRead… Read more »
Posting Price Negotiation Memos (PNMs) to a secure government database — I love it. Scuttlebutt has it DOD is working on this. I don’t know much else beyond that. Still, an informal (and unscientific) survey in a CON 217 class turned up massive skepticism, even rejection, mostly because of proprietary info. This is a legitimateRead… Read more »
The CIO 100 Award, which annually recognizes 100 organizations that exemplify the highest levels of operational and strategic excellence in information technology, was awarded to the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC). The award is especially meaningful in the Federal arena because typically only about five Federal organizations are honored each year out of the 100Read… Read more »