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July 27, 2019 By AMK

GSA announces new on-call vendors for Centers of Excellence

The General Services Administration announced a series of new agreements with vendors Tuesday aimed at providing the Centers of Excellence IT modernization initiative with a faster, more flexible pool of contractors.

Called the Centers of Excellence Discovery Blanket Purchase Agreement, GSA can now call on an additional 22 vendors across seven IT modernization focus areas.

The addition represents another tweak to the original CoE effort, which began as a two-phase initiative tackling IT modernization at the departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development in late 2017. Last month, GSA announced the Office of Personnel Management would be the third agency to undergo CoE.

Initially, the CoEs focused on five focus areas—cloud adoption, contact centers, customer experience, data analytics and IT infrastructure optimization. Two additional areas, information security and change management, have since been added, and vendors under the new BPA address those new focus areas. Small businesses comprise approximately one-third of the agreements, a change based in part on engagement and feedback from industry.

Keep reading article at: https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/06/gsa-announces-new-call-vendors-centers-excellence/157466/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Centers of Excellence, GSA, on-call vendors

October 26, 2018 By AMK

USDA saved millions so far due to ‘Centers of Excellence’

Less than one year into the White House Centers of Excellence initiative, the first pilot agency is already saving money.

“So far, we’ve realized around $26 million in cost avoidance and savings and now we’re moving on to phase 2, which is the actual implementation of the plan we developed over the past six months,” said Agriculture Department Deputy Secretary Stephen Censky, speaking last week at the Imagine Nation conference in Philadelphia.

The two-phase CoE effort focuses on five areas: customer experience, cloud adoption, infrastructure optimization, contact centers and service delivery analytics.

The first phase of the program focused on developing the modernization strategy for those key areas through a collaboration between personnel from the General Services Administration, Agriculture and consulting partners brought in through contracts.

The second phase, which Agriculture will now undertake, involves carrying out the strategy and implementing the tech tools and services the department purchases.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/10/usda-saved-millions-so-far-due-centers-excellence/152063/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, Agriculture Dept., Centers of Excellence, CoE, GSA, HUD, procurement reform, USDA

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