GSA launches FPDS 'Next Generation' redesign.The General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. has announced the launch of the Federal Procurement Data System's (FPDS FPDS Federal Procurement Data System FPDS Ford Product Development System FPDS Fraksi Partai Damai Sejahtera FPDS Fire Prevention, Detection and Suppression FPDS Force Protection Demining System FPDS Fire Priority Dispatch System ) "Next Generation," the first major redesign since FPDS was created 24 years ago, in 1979. FPDS-Next Generation (NG) culminates more than four years of effort, spearheaded by the Procurement Executive Council, now known as the Federal Acquisition Council, under the leadership of then Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Dee Lee and Department of Transportation Senior Procurement Executive David Litman. All federal agencies participated in this development effort under the guidance of GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy. It is expected to save an estimated $10 million each year by eliminating agency feeder systems and is part of the foundation for the Integrated Acquisition Environment (IAE IAE Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (France) IAE International Aero Engines IAE Impuesto de Actividades Económicas IAE In Any Event IAE Integrated Acquisition Environment IAE Inflatable Antenna Experiment ) Program, one of the President's 24 E-Gov initiatives. "FPDS Next Generation was up and running on Oct. 1," said David Drabkin, Deputy Associate Administrator for Acquisition Policy. "IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. registered 500 users who, for the first time, were able to submit data directly from contract writing software. FPDS Next Generation helps fulfill GSA's mission to help agencies focus on their core missions and better serve the public." FPDS stores information on $250 billion worth of federal contracts awarded each year for goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . It provides detailed information on contracts above $25,000 and summary data on procurements below $25,000. FPDS moved from a mainframe computer to a client-server system and the Oracle database in 1997 and provided access to FPDS through a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. in 2002. Next Generation innovations enable agencies to submit information from their contract writing systems. Additional Next Generation firsts are ability to: Submit individual procurements as small as $2,500. Reduce the opportunity for error by eliminating re-keying GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. , a centralized federal procurement and property management agency with 14,000 associates, was created by Congress to help agencies improve efficiency and better serve the public. On behalf of federal agencies, GSA acquires office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services for more than one million federal workers in more than 8,000 buildings in 2,000 U.S. communities. |
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