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Welcome to the 2007 FCW Buyers' Guides

Here is where to begin your search for information technology and services available through government contracts.

The GWAC/Small Business Buyers' Guide (published Oct. 1, 2007) spotlights contracts available governmentwide, with a special section that will help you identify small businesses that can meet your needs.

The DOD/Security Buyers' Guide (Nov. 26, 2007) focuses on contracts tailored to meet the unique requirements of the defense community. The guide includes service-specific and departmentwide contracts, such as the Enterprise Software Initiative. Because cybersecurity is such a big concern at defense agencies, this buyers' guide also highlights security-related contracts.

As always, this year's guides include straightforward charts to help you identify contractors offering the products and services you need, along with points of contact at the companies and the government contract offices.

Finally, both buyers' guides include feature stories intended to help you navigate the changing acquisition environment.

We hope you find the buyers' guides useful.

DOD/Security Buyers' Guide

Theory vs. reality: Performance-based acquisition
Performance-based acquisition might seem like the best innovation in federal contracting in recent years, but experts say it has produced mixed results.

Security is job 1
Data breaches are forcing agencies to treat security as a moving target.

The DOD/Security Buyers' Guide contract charts
DOD Enterprise Software Initiative: Software
DOD Enterprise Software Initiative: Hardware
DOD Enterprise Software Initiative: Services


The GWAC/Small Business Buyers' Guide

The GWAC identity crisis
It is a time of change for governmentwide acquisition contracts. What will that mean for how agencies buy goods and services?

The GWAC charts (.PDF)

Alliant
Answer
Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 2i
Connections
Electronic Commodity Store III
Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions
Millennia and Image World2
Millennia Lite
Solutions for Enterprisewide Procurement IV


FAQs for small businesses
Questions small businesses should ask if they want to enter the government market

FAQs for agencies
Questions agencies need to ask as they navigate small-business requirements

FAQs for midsize and large businesses
Questions midsize and large businesses should ask to increase their understanding of what small-business requirements mean for them

The small-business chart (.pdf)

 


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Doan's departure:

Soloway: Challenges are opportunities
GSA must seize the moment to rebuild relations with federal agency customers and Congress.

Doan's departure:

Aronie: The Eagle and the Arrow
Doan waged bold battles during her tenure, but those battles ended up being distracting.

Doan's departure:

Fox: Doan picked a good fight
By standing up to GSA’s inspector general, Doan showed she understood the proper role of IGs.

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