Monthly Archives: December 2009

Interior extends financial system recompete

The Interior Department has extended the deadline for proposals from vendors to work on the Financial and Business Modernization System, the agency’s core enterprise resource planning system. The department ousted systems integrator BearingPoint Inc. from the job in September and … Continue reading

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EEOC gets third consecutive ‘unqualified opinion’ on annual financial statements

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has earned an unqualified opinion on its 2006 financial statements, the third straight year in which independent auditors have performed an extensive examination of the EEOC’s financial records and reported a clean fiscal … Continue reading

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OMB asks agencies to practice project management discipline

Earned value management (EVM) is an unfamiliar discipline to many federal project managers, but it won?t be a mystery much longer. Federals agencies have until Dec. 31 to create policies for using EVM to reduce the inherent risk in large … Continue reading

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GSA continues to hint at E-Travel consolidation

The General Services Administration continues to head down the path to consolidate the E-Travel program around one vendor instead of three. GSA issued a draft request for proposals Friday detailing its initial requirements for the new system. Throughout the document, … Continue reading

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Pentagon to streamline process for buying business systems

“A trial program to revamp the Defense Department’s process for acquiring business systems will be formally announced in the next four to six weeks, an official leading the Pentagon’s business transformation efforts said this week. The five to seven years … Continue reading

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