According to GSA Portfolio Management Division Director Bill Lewis this lengthier than expected process will finally let infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement awardees start selling their cloud services from the Apps.gov cloud computing website.

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Bill Lewis tells us during an interview.

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An extensive investigation by Copley News Service recently traced the connections between Lewis and lobbyist Bill Lowery, a former Republican member of the House and a close friend of Lewis.

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In the book Moneyball, author Michael Lewis details how statistician Bill James showed that people overlooked the information that would reveal which strategies would be most effective in to compete and win in baseball.

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Mr Lewis said: "For too long the senior local government pay bill has spiralled up and up, and taxpayers have been left footing the bill, " he said.

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Mr Lewis said a white paper would be published in the spring, with the bill provisionally planned for introduction in the third year of the legislative programme, in 2013-14.

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Shadow international development minister Ivan Lewis said the minister had failed to give a "cast iron guarantee" the bill would be in the Queen's Speech.

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Deputy Kevin Lewis said the new bulbs were more cost effective and energy efficient and could halve the electricity bill.

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