Yesterday, just hours after the Senate voted 96-0 to confirm Martha Johnson as the Administrator of the GSA after a pointless 9-month delay, we learned that Sen.
Through our new GreenGov Supply Chain Partnership, Federal suppliers can agree to voluntarily measure, reduce, and report their greenhouse gas emissions to help GSA design an incentive-based approach to developing contracting advantages for companies that share our sustainability goals.
The GSA is exempt from anti-trust and they make it clear that nobody is to get a lower price than the government by law, so you can be assured of the lowest cost.
The video clip, made available by a Republican-led House oversight committee, shows GSA workers promoting the "go green" campaign, singing along to a gospel-style tune.
The General Services Administration (GSA) has set up a red-tape-laden process by which titles will be transferred.
Using the BAH study as a guide, and assuming that community cloud economies mimic those expected from a hybrid cloud, transitioning IT services from an agency-owned IT infrastructure to the GSA IaaS platform should deliver benefit cost ratios of approximately 7:1.
The GSA leader said that was an issue for ethical and moral debate - and a very personal decision.
The GSA is responsible for gatekeeping federal resources, making the now infamous clown-conference scandal all the more embarrassing.
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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.
But a spokeswoman for the Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has scheduled a hearing on the GSA for Monday, dismissed the argument.
This move clearly indicates that the risk-reward balance for leveraging cloud computing for public websites for DHS is favorable when using the GSA IaaS BPA. Providers under this contract are required to comply with the yet to be finalized, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).
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The collaborative work of the EPA, General Services Administration (GSA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the dozen additional agencies represented on the e-waste task force that developed the National Strategy over the past eight months is an example to all who manufacture and distribute electronic products.
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