GSA implementation of FTS 2000

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GSA implementation of FTS Efficiency, equity, and compliance with congressional intent: hearing before the Author: United States. Get this from a library. GSA implementation of FTS efficiency, equity, and compliance with congressional intent: hearing before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, Ap [United States.

Congress. SUBJECT: Changes in GSA Organization (FTS) 1. Purpose. This order announces changes in the organization of the Federal Technology Service (FTS). Changes in organization. Effective October 1,the following changes are made in FTS: a. The Information Security Services Center is established in the Office of Information Technology.

GAO discussed the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) program, focusing on the program's status and the need for a mandatory use provision to ensure compliance. GAO noted that: (1) the General Services Administration (GSA) has greatly reduced FTS equipment prices through recompetition of the requirement, in most instances obtaining below-commercial prices; (2) GSA implementation.

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the effectiveness of General Services Administration (GSA) efforts to obtain competitive rates for telecommunications services under the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) found that: (1) the government will continue to pay more than commercial prices for FTS services.

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Washington, DC ADM Revalidated Octo ; Revalidated Febru GSA ORDER. SUBJECT: Change in GSA organization (FTS - Regions 6 & 7) 1. Purpose. This order announces changes in GSA organization.

Change in organization. Effective immediately the following. GSA officials believe that control over the utilization of long-distance telecommunications services will be significantly improved under FTS through greater accountability, management oversight, and better data security.

Upon implementation, FTS is intended to generate. SUBJECT: Changes in GSA Organization (FTS) 1. Purpose. This order announces changes in the Central Office organization of GSA.

Changes in organization. Effective immediately, the following changes are made in the Federal Technology Service (FTS): a. GSA Announces Changes in FTS. Septem GSA # Septem Contact: Hap Connors or Bill Bearden WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S.

General Services Administration today announced several major changes that will occur by year's end at the helm of the Federal Telecommunications Service, which manages the government's. SUBJECT: Change in GSA Organization (CIO & FTS) 1. Purpose. This order announces changes in the organization of the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Federal Technology Service (FTS), Central Office.

Changes in organization. Effective immediately (for budget and accounting purposes the effective date will be October 1. GSA implementation of FTS efficiency, equity, and compliance with congressional intent: hearing before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, Ap Telecommunications Ordering and Pricing System(TOPS) NOTICE: The Tops billing cycle runs on the 23rd of each month unless otherwise notified.

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Small Business Become a contractor or subcontractor and pursue opportunities to. Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the applicability of the recommendation for the delay of the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) long distance telecommunications contract award until the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) clarify which telecommunications services should be.

Pressure built and added to GSA' s own concerns about the problem. Consequently, GSA increased the priority of its program to cut FTS costs through competition (Note 7~. To a large extent GSA was locked into the existing architecture of the system which was designed to exploit the economies of scale of Telpak.

[email protected] Washington, DC -- The Federal Technology Service (FTS) of the General Services Administration has announced that it has reached agreement with Sprint and AT&T to extend FTS bridge contracts for long distance telecommunications services. The GSA wanted a network that would meet federal-government needs into the year hence the name, Federal Telecommunications System AT&T, as main contractor, designed such a network.

FTS began serving U.S. government employees in Octoberreplacing the GSA's year-old analog network. Get this from a library.

FTS GSA's price redetermination yields a reasonable decision and lower prices: report to the Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate. [United States. General Accounting Office.]. GSA extends FTS phase-out to one year.

By Brad Bass; "It was anticipated that at this point we would have been further along in the acquisition process," Bates said.

Get this from a library. Information management: status of GSA's FTS procurement: report to the Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate. [United States. General Accounting Office.]. Get this from a library. Telecommunications privacy: GSA's planned FTS telephone record controls appear reasonable: report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Office Systems, Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives.

[United States. General Accounting Office.]. said Frank Lalley, assistant commissioner for service delivery in GSA's. Federal Technology Service. Customers of AT&T will be able to use FTS for 12 more months — until Dec. 6, B Contract Requirements GSA must perform numerous, complex functions to comply with contract Account for Majority of f requirements and to implement and oversee the FTS unc t’ ions account for almost two-thirds of GSA'S overhead costs.

For IT3 Overhead example, the ITS contracts require GSA to maintain two service. “ With over a decade of expertise, FTS and FTS implementation service experience, and being an approved GSA vendor, we understand nationwide and global deployment project needs and. Finally, while GSA is effectively enforcing mandatory use, in some cases compliance with the statute can cost agencies more for FTS services than they would pay under a separate contract.

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in Pasedena, CA., NSA (Evaluated Products List (EPL), Secret Service, and GSA FTS Title: Retired at Retired Life. The year-old FTS long-distance contracts, which were set to expire Dec. 6, were extended for 12 months with two six-month option periods.

AT&T and Sprint hold the contracts. GSA began transitioning its telecommunications services to the Networx contracts in and has yet to finish.

Due to the scale and length of the Networx transition,the GSA OIG included this audit as part of its FY audit plan. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to assess GSA’s transition to Networx and to examine what GSA can do to improve.

In the s, the government moved from a telephone system it owned to a system owned and operated by one of the two companies that won the FTS contract. The systems were generally the same. Last week, the G.S.A. said it was delaying at least until year-end the awarding of the larger contract to build the system, which is known as the FTS The G.S.A.

said it needed more time to. Earlier this month, AT&T shifted a protest from the General Services Administration to the General Accounting Office, asking GAO to force GSA to negate the FTS awards and recompete the.

What are FTS and FTS telecommunications services? A. FTS was the first Governmentwide contract for telecommunications services. FTS and Networx are the follow-on contracts. FTS services include: (1) Voice and data services, (2) Long distance, (3) Calling cards, (4) Audio conference accounts, (5) Web conferencing, and.