Teaming Required for New GWAC
Small businesses will have to form teams to compete for a piece of GSA’s proposed Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract.

NASA Reorganizes for Moon, Mars Mission
NASA has created a new Office of Exploration Systems at its Washington headquarters to lead its new mission to the moon and Mars.

Postal Service Is Consolidating Contracts
The Postal Service will continue to move to consolidated national and regional contracts as part of an aggressive cost-cutting plan, said Craig Partridge, manager of Supply Chain Management Strategies.

IG Finds More Contracting Abuses in Technology Service
Contracting officers at the General Services Administration’s Federal Technology Service routinely ignored procurement laws and regulations, handed sole-source contracts to favored companies and left the government open to “waste, fraud and abuse,” GSA’s inspector general reported.

Leftovers for the New Year
Congress opened its 2004 session Jan. 20 facing a pile of small-business bills left over from last year.