Alliant companies ready to sound off.

The article reports that the U.S. General Services Administration asked for comments on how to make the Alliant information technology services contract more accessible and useful to medium-sized businesses. The GSA expects to award Alliant to several vendors in 2007 and its plans to have a companion contract set aside for small businesses. Phil Foote, chief operating officer at STG, said that the problem with Alliant is that small business get a hand with a contract guaranteeing that they compete only with each other, while medium-sized businesses have to compete with larger companies.