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By Lorenzo Cortes Lockheed Martin [LMT] said yesterday it had formed an industry team to bid for the Air Force's $600 million lead systems integrator (LSI) program for its air […]

According to the DoD., Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Oak Brook, Ill., was awarded on Sept. 21, 2004, a $10,324,560 firm-fixed-price contract for beachfill. Work will be performed in [...]

According to the DoD., Ukpik Mechanical Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, was awarded on Sept. 22, 2004, a $14,663,620 firm-fixed-price contract to repair utilidor systems. Work will be performed at Fort Wainwright, [...]

ACCORDING to the DoD., Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Oak Brook, Ill., was awarded on Sept. 21, 2004, a $55,000 increment as part of a $7,171,381 firm-fixed-price contract for [...]

According to the DoD., General Dynamics, Taunton, Mass., was awarded on Sept. 22, 2004, a $21,538,244 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for common hardware/software items for the project manager of [...]

According to the DoD., Rosenbauer America L.L.C., Lyons, S.D., was awarded on Sept. 22, 2004, a delivery order amount of $732,878 as part of the $7,891,824 firm-fixed-price contract for two [...]

According to the DoD., Haskell Corp., Bellingham, Wash., was awarded on Sept. 20, 2004, a $26,550,595 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of a power plant cooling system. Work will [...]

Prescott rises to RFU challenge to change - Richard Prescott gets set to battle for a structural revamp of the World Cup When a man has two pairs of flight [...]

News Brief: More bureaucracy via competitive bidding? Implementing a national Medicare competitive bidding program for medical equipment, services, and technology will require a 35% increase in the Centers for Medicare [...]

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. has been shortlisted as the lowest bidder in the tender invited by the government of Nepal, for operating fixed line services there. Confirming this, R.S.P. Sinha, […]

The 10 largest set-aside contracts to go up for bids in fiscal 2010 are worth about $16 billion, according to the market research firm Input. Agencies increasingly expect small firms [...]

The 8(a) program is vulnerable to fraud because nobody is watching, SBA's Office of Inspector General found. Contractors in the 8(a) program who violate regulations will not be caught because [...]

GSA's eOffer online bidding website is still wide open to security breaches, according to the computer consultant who found the vulnerability that shut down the site for a week. Aaron [...]

Thailand's Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority has started soliciting bids for Bangkok's planned $2.76 billion underground mass-transit system. The project has suffered countless delays since it was first conceived in the 1970s, largely due to changes in governments and inconsistent transport policies. Philipp Holzmann AG, Bilfinger and Berger Bau AG and Italian-Thai Development PCL are considered as the leading candidates for the project.

China's largest appliance maker, Haier Group, could be the next bidder for Maytag, according to a report by Reuters. Haier has been strengthening its reputation in the United States with […]

The Air Force plans a small business set-aside for IT networking services on its primary networking vehicle, the Network Centric Solutions (NETCENTS) contract, according to the market research firm Input. [...]

While many new companies are competing for federal IT contracts, that market will grow very little over the next three years, according to the market research firm Federal Sources Inc. [...]

Alaska Native Corporations received 13% of the prime contract dollars awarded through the 8(a) program in 2004, the Government Accountability Office reported. ANCs' 8(a) contracts totaled $1.1 billion that year, [...]

The Defense Department will continue paying contractors award fees for satisfactory performance, despite a Government Accountability Office recommendation that the fees be reserved for those companies receiving higher marks. DOD [...]

Eight agencies were graded 'F' for their compliance with the federal computer security law in an annual ranking by the House Government Reform Committee. But some critics say the Federal [...]

A coalition of leading contractor groups is urging the Bush administration to increase the $750,000 net-worth limit for owners of small disadvantaged businesses. The trade associations made the recommendation to [...]

Blanket purchase agreements can be a significant source of revenue for small firms, according to a report by Eagle Eye Publishers. In fiscal 2004 Eagle Eye found agencies bought $2.3 [...]

Final bids are due this week on 575 Fifth Ave., a 40-story Manhattan office and retail building owned by Sterling Equities and UBS. Joseph Chetrit, head of the Chetrit Group, [...]

Ecuador will begin registering potential bidders on 22 November to operate the 110,000 b/d Esmeraldas refinery. Energy minister Eduardo Lopez says an initial $60mn-80mn is needed for an administrative makeover. [...]

VIETNAM -- A new zone to the north of current oil and gas production areas is being opened up to bidders in the 2004 licensing round that was unveiled last [...]

The US Minerals Management Service (MMS) received high bids worth $171mn for blocks offered in upstream lease sale 192, making it the best western Gulf upstream auction sale in six [...]

Brazil's national oil agency ANP raised 665.3mn reals ($221.7mn) in its sixth upstream bidding round, the highest amount generated in any auction since they started in 1999. Of the 913 [...]

Romania has opted for German gas firm Ruhrgas as its 'preferred bidder' for gas distributor Distrigaz Nord, which sells 4.6bn [m.sup.3]/yr of gas in Romania's market. Romania will now negotiate [...]

* Iran's Posts, Telephones and Telegraphs Ministry will launch a tender to obtain the services of a financial adviser on the sale of a second GSM [...]

Alaska Power and Telephone Co., Chevron USA, Williams Energy Cos., and Anadarko with Alberta Energy have submitted 4 proposals on the natural gas to be piped in from the Alaska's North Slope. The offers hinge on the pipeline yet to be built.

NASA Award Fee Policy to be Issued Next Mouth. NASA will discuss its final proposed policy on award fee contracting with the NASA-Industry Process Action Team Sept. 21, after which […]