The contracting process for services including catering, security, transport and merchandise begins on Monday.

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RFP-EZ, a campaign to streamline the contracting process for tech start-ups so that they can more easily sell to the government.

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But by early 2003 the agency hadn't yet handed out research contracts for the program, thanks to the painstaking federal contracting process.

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