The SPOT Image Corporation was placed on the GSA Schedule American Surveyor reports. This allows any Federal Department of organization to purchase products from the company at fixed rates. SPOT imagery may be used by a variety of agencies including the Department of Defense. Overhead imagery of the quality that SPOT is capable of providing has a myriad of uses. It can aid planning of...
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The Jamestown Sun reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded Noridian a contract to manage almost ten percent of all claims for Medicare Part A and B. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services awards contracts to manage various states and this contract was for the Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin. Noridian has previously won similar contracts to manage other...
Last month the U.S. Army awarded Raydon a contract to build military vehicle simulators to support training. Raydon has designed and built several of these types of trainers and convoy simulators for the Army and Marine Corps. Now The Orlando Sentinell reports that losing bidder DME is protesting the award of the $46 million contract. DME has protested to the GAO which is the middle level of...
We had written in the past about the U.S. Treasury Department having to hire contractors to help manage the TARP financial bailout passed by Congress last year. Now The Wall Street Journal reports on the costs incurred to do this. The Department predicts that by the end of this month they will have obligated over $27 million dollars to pay for the salaries, space and equipment for these...
The U.S. Army awarded AT&T Government a task under the Infrastructure Modernization contract to build a data network in Germany that would link various bases together. The contract is worth about $23 million. Federal Computer Week reported on the contract award. The data network will support the Joint Maneuver Training Center (JMTC) in Germany which is used to test and train U.S. forces....
The International Business Times has a press release from Tri-S Security announcing that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded their subsidiary, Paragon, two contracts to provide services in Los Angeles and San Diego. The contracts worth about $140 million combined are to provide guards for a variety of Federal sites in the two counties. Tri-S Security provides all facets of...
The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency will pay the U.S. Army over $15 million to settle a lawsuit related to irregular billing. Adweek reports that the case stems from a whistleblower lawsuit filed by some of the companies employees over the fact that they billed in-house work by subsidiaries as actually done by subcontractors. The rates for the subcontractor were higher leading to the...
The GAO recently denied for the third time a protest by Raytheon of an AEGIS system upgrade contract to Lockheed. They had argued as reported by Reuters that it shouldn’t have been a sole source. AEGIS was developed by Lockheed and is produced by Lockheed and always has been. Although it is because Lockheed bought the company that bought the company that made the system back in the...
The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process’ last round moved several USAF research and training facilities to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. This article at Dayton B2B discusses the latest contract awarded to build new facilities at the base to house these moved organizations. Better Built Construction Services received a $40 million contract to build housing for students. In total...
Lockheed Martin the manufacturer of the PATRIOT PAC-3 missile received several contracts related to that system recently. They total over $750 million and provide for the production of the missiles, support and modifications of launcher units. The contracts also pay for the first parts of the system ordered by the UAE. We wrote about this a few days ago. The press release can be found at...
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