The General Services Administration continues to head down the path to consolidate the E-Travel program around one vendor instead of three.
GSA issued a draft request for proposals Friday detailing its initial requirements for the new system.
Throughout the document, GSA refers to one contractor providing end-to-end travel management services, and nowhere in the statement of objectives does it mention that the agency may make this a multiple award contract.
This is the second draft RFP GSA has issued since November. The first draft statement of objectives also seemed to call for the consolidation to one vendor.
In 2003, GSA awarded Carson Wagonlit Government Travel, Inc., EDS (now HP) and Northrop Grumman Mission Systems contracts to provide a standardized E-Travel portal for agencies.
The government has seen mixed results in mandating the move to these three vendors.
The Office of Management and Budget says in the fiscal 2010 E-Government Benefits Report to Congress issued in March that 23 of 24 major departments have or are in the process of implementing the portals-18 of which are fully deployed. And the final one, the Justice Department, is scheduled to begin in 2010.
But three major agencies that account for nearly 33 percent of all federal travel have not moved to the new system-the departments of Commerce, Homeland Security and Justice.
Additionally, another 53 smaller agencies have fully or partially deployed E-Travel.
The draft RFP calls for the vendor to use an application or software-as-a service approach for the portal. The vendor must include access to all other travel systems, such as FedRooms, City Pair Program and SmartPay.
GSA details 14 mandatory requirements, including creation, routing and approval of travel authorizations, travel planning and cost estimating, support of mobile devices and several others.
Comments on the draft RFP are due by May 26, and GSA will host an industry day May 12 in Arlington, Va. The agency also will host one-on-one sessions with vendors May 18 or May 20.
-Jason Miller, FederalNewsRadio.com
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Today's GAO Publications
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following correspondence:
Defense Travel System: Validity of Travel Payments Statistical Sampling in Question.
GAO-08-444R, March 3.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-444R
Management Letter: Recommendations for Improvements to MCC's Internal Controls and Policies on Premium Class Air Travel.
GAO-08-468R, February 29.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-468R
Defense Travel System: Validity of Travel Payments Statistical Sampling in Question.
GAO-08-444R, March 3.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-444R
Management Letter: Recommendations for Improvements to MCC's Internal Controls and Policies on Premium Class Air Travel.
GAO-08-468R, February 29.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-468R
Friday, December 14, 2007
Today's GAO Publication
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following report:
DOD Travel Improper Payments: Fiscal Year 2006 Reporting Was Incomplete and Planned Improvement Efforts Face Challenges.
GAO-08-16, December 14
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-16
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0816high.pdf
DOD Travel Improper Payments: Fiscal Year 2006 Reporting Was Incomplete and Planned Improvement Efforts Face Challenges.
GAO-08-16, December 14
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-16
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0816high.pdf
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Today's GAO Publications
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and presentations:
Premium Class Travel: Internal Control Weaknesses Governmentwide Led to Improper and Abusive Use of Premium Class Travel.
GAO-07-1268, September 28.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-1268
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d071268high.pdf
"An Accountability Update from Washington," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before AICPA's peer review program conference, in Atlanta, Georgia.
GAO-08-149CG, October 1. [slides]
http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08149cg.pdf
"Fiscal Stewardship in the 21st Century," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Commerce Club, in Atlanta, Georgia.
GAO-08-150CG, October 1. [slides]
http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08150cg.pdf
Premium Class Travel: Internal Control Weaknesses Governmentwide Led to Improper and Abusive Use of Premium Class Travel.
GAO-07-1268, September 28.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-1268
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d071268high.pdf
"An Accountability Update from Washington," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before AICPA's peer review program conference, in Atlanta, Georgia.
GAO-08-149CG, October 1. [slides]
http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08149cg.pdf
"Fiscal Stewardship in the 21st Century," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Commerce Club, in Atlanta, Georgia.
GAO-08-150CG, October 1. [slides]
http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d08150cg.pdf
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Today's GAO Publication
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following correspondence:
Improper Payments Information Act of 2002: Department of Defense Travel Expenditure Reporting.
GAO-07-767R, May 31
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-767R
Improper Payments Information Act of 2002: Department of Defense Travel Expenditure Reporting.
GAO-07-767R, May 31
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-767R
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
GSA replaces career leader of policy office with political appointee
The chief of the General Services Administration has replaced the acting head of the agency's Office of Governmentwide Policy -- a 33-year career federal employee -- with a political appointee.
GSA Administrator Lurita Doan selected Kevin Messner to serve as the policy office's acting associate administrator, replacing John Sindelar, who has headed it with the same title since December 2005. Messner will also continue in his role as associate administrator for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, a position he has held since June 2006.
Neither of Messner's jobs are subject to Senate confirmation, and officials in acting positions do not have to be approved by the White House's Presidential Personnel Office. This is the first time the office has been headed by a political appointee, according to GSA.
A GSA spokeswoman said that Doan made the decision to name a political appointee because of the office's involvement with the President's Management Agenda initiatives. The five main items on the agenda are personnel reform, improved financial management, electronic government, opening work not considered core to government to contractors and use of program performance information to inform budget decisions.
The Office of Governmentwide Policy was created in December 1995 as a means of consolidating GSA's policy functions. It has authority to set policies in the areas of personal and real property, travel and transportation, information technology, regulatory information and use of federal advisory committees.
Sindelar has played an instrumental role in launching and implementing the Bush administration's e-government and lines of business initiatives, which are part of the President's Management Agenda. The e-government effort is designed in part to make government services more accessible to citizens online, and the lines of business initiative is aimed at consolidating back-end technology systems across government, in areas such as financial management and human resources.
-Daniel Pulliam, GovExec.com
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GSA Administrator Lurita Doan selected Kevin Messner to serve as the policy office's acting associate administrator, replacing John Sindelar, who has headed it with the same title since December 2005. Messner will also continue in his role as associate administrator for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, a position he has held since June 2006.
Neither of Messner's jobs are subject to Senate confirmation, and officials in acting positions do not have to be approved by the White House's Presidential Personnel Office. This is the first time the office has been headed by a political appointee, according to GSA.
A GSA spokeswoman said that Doan made the decision to name a political appointee because of the office's involvement with the President's Management Agenda initiatives. The five main items on the agenda are personnel reform, improved financial management, electronic government, opening work not considered core to government to contractors and use of program performance information to inform budget decisions.
The Office of Governmentwide Policy was created in December 1995 as a means of consolidating GSA's policy functions. It has authority to set policies in the areas of personal and real property, travel and transportation, information technology, regulatory information and use of federal advisory committees.
Sindelar has played an instrumental role in launching and implementing the Bush administration's e-government and lines of business initiatives, which are part of the President's Management Agenda. The e-government effort is designed in part to make government services more accessible to citizens online, and the lines of business initiative is aimed at consolidating back-end technology systems across government, in areas such as financial management and human resources.
-Daniel Pulliam, GovExec.com
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