Title: $18M Being Spent to Redesign Recovery.gov Web Site
URL Source: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/20 ... gn-recoverygov-web-site.html
Published: Jul 10, 2009
Author: Rick Klein 
Post Date: 2009-07-10 07:47:03 by wbales
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ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site.

The new Web site promises to give taxpayers more information about where their money is going than the current version of the site.

“Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent,” James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. “Armed with easy access to this information, taxpayers can make government more accountable for its decisions.”  

The contract calls for spending $9.5 million through January, and as much as $18 million through 2014, according to the GSA press release.

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$18 Million Dollars?!?

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#1. To: penguinite (#0)

I really was wanting to inquire with you--so, is it in the realm of possibility that this website makeover could be done for something less--sort of--well, I was thinking, say, maybe, $17 Million??????

wbales  posted on  2009-07-10   6:50:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

FEDERAL IT DASHBOARD

http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2009/07/08/service-contract-inventory-appropriations-bill.aspx?s=wtdaily_100709

Service contracts go under House microscope

Appropriations Committee wants to know what was outsourced, to whom and how well the work was done

• By Matthew Weigelt
• Jul 09, 2009

The House Appropriations Committee wants all agencies to take an inventory of their services contracts and consider letting federal employees perform that work.

The fiscal 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act would require civilian agencies to create an annual inventory of services they’ve outsourced to the private sector and review whether to return the work to government employees.

In the inventories, the committee wants to know what services were outsourced, when a contract began, whether a contract was awarded competitively, and if the contractor’s work was done poorly. The committee is also interested in how closely contractors are coming to performing inherently governmental functions, or work that only a government employee can do.

The committee approved the bill July 7, but the full House has not debated it. The panel said it expects a lot of savings from those reviews, and the Army has saved $50 million from going through that process.

The new provision copies what the fiscal 2008 National Defense Authorization Act wanted from the Defense Department. However, the department has yet to submit its inventory to Congress even two years later.

The House Armed Services Committee acknowledged that such a task takes time, but it’s concerned because DOD hasn’t submitted any information or even a plan of how it will take on the job. The fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act directs DOD to tell the committee how it plans to get started on the work, according to the committee’s report on the legislation. The House passed the bill in June.

The Army has an inventory of its services contracts, but it began the counting in 2002. The Navy and Air Force departments are expected to turn in a sample inventory this fiscal year. However, the committee is concerned that those samples won’t be as detailed as lawmakers had wanted.

HAPPY2BME-4um  posted on  2009-07-10   7:27:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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