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February 24, 2006
Excellence.Gov Awards 2006, Top 5 Award Winners
Back on February 15, I attended the Excellence.Gov Awards which were organized by the Collaboration & Transformation SIG of the Industry Advisory Council. There were 20 finalists this year, with five award winners highlighted. Those five are:
Bidirectional Health Information Exchange, Departments…
A bizarre analogy for government contracting
This article on GovExec.com, about the reworked Alliant GWAC, contains a truly fantastic analogy about a problem that plagues many government IT procurements.
A typical federal statement of work resembles a grocery list, when it should resemble a directory of food categories, he said.…
Congressman Wu: “Federal Dollars Should Benefit The Whole, Not Just Majority” — (Medford Article)
I see that Oregon Congressman David Wu has sent a letter has sent a letter about Grants.gov’s Mac compatibility issue to Joshua Bolten, Director of OMB:
I am personally troubled by the overarching discrimination against Mac-users simply because they are considered the…
February 21, 2006
Kentucky vies for NBAF
I see that Kentucky has thrown its hat in the ring for NBAF (National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility). in a joint effort sponsored by Congressmen and the governors of Kentucky and Tennessee, the University of Louisville, UT and Oak Ridge National…
February 13, 2006
Mac solution for Grants.gov
Over at my personal blog, where I mirror the grants-related posts I make here, Dave Schroeder of the University of Wisconin published this happy news:
The University of Wisconsin has
released a standalone package for using Grants.gov on Mac OS X as a
service…
Grants.gov won’t be platform-agnostic
Yesterday I posted about a Washington Post article that was highly critical of Grants.gov’s inability to provide e‑forms for the Mac platform. One comment on that post really set me thinking. Claus Wilkes noted that while a Mac e‑forms client would help, the…
February 12, 2006
Washington Post slams Grants.gov’s Mac Woes
Looks like the mainstream press has caught wind of Grants.gov’s electronic forms Mac compatibility problems: The Washington Post’s Federal Page features an article about it tomorrow. The article is unfortunately sensationalist and is factually incorrect as a result — Grants.gov is…
February 6, 2006
GCN: OMB to name grants service providers
Now that the FY2007 budget is released, everyone can talk freely about the Grants Management Line of Business shared service providers (SSPs) that have already been chosen:
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services / Administration for Children…
January 27, 2006
Performance-based contracting not a panacea
GovExec has a nice article about an AFCEA event at which Ed Meagher, CTO at the VA, and others give a reality check about the limits of performance-based contracting and earned value management. I especially like this quote:
“Earned value … is like…
January 24, 2006
Recycling no-nos
This really has nothing to do with anything on this blog to date, but I recently received a calendar from the DC Department of Public Works that, among the more exciting pages, listed the kinds of items that could and could not…