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$39m, 39-Building GSA Project Will Enable Remote Energy Monitoring Across Four States
Siemens Government Services is on schedule to complete, by October, a $39 million energy-efficiency project that will allow the federal General Services Administration to monitor and control dozens of buildings, in four states, from one location. Show More Summary
GSA chief reins in bonuses and freezes new hiring
The acting chief of the General Services Administration will announce Tuesday that he is canceling almost all bonuses for executives this year and freezing hiring after a spending scandal that prompted a major shake-up at the agency. Read full article >>
General Services Administration offers employees early retirement buyout package
The General Services Administration is offering buyouts and early retirement packages to 1,200 employees, according to an e-mail recently sent to staffers from the agency’s chief people officer. The offer will end July 20 and is the second of three rounds of buyouts the agency is offering. Show More Summary
Contract Wins: GSA, NASA, Clean Energy Fuels, Telkonet’s EcoSmart
The US General Services Administration has procured about 300 million kWh of electricity – expected to save GSA more than $10.8 million at several facilities in New York as well as through other federal accounts, including the American Red Cross, Bureau of Prisons, United Nations, US Coast Guard and US Department of Veterans Affairs – [...]
Downtown Courthouse Shuffle: The General Services Administration has found...
The General Services Administration has found a plan that might just quiet down Republican objectors to Downtown's planned federal courthouse: "swapping the Spring Street site of the existing Depression-era U.S. courthouse with a developer who would, in exchange, construct the...
CenturyLink snaps up Networx Universal data services task order from Social Security Administration
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has snapped up a $233 million, five-year task order to provide managed data services to the Social Security Administration via its seat on the General Service Administration's (GSA) Networx Universal contract. Under...Show More Summary
GSA to streamline schedule process
The General Services Administration has announced a new effort to jettison obsolete contracts listed on its schedules, the shopping catalog for the government. The GSA maintains more than 8,000 obsolete contracts with firms that sell items such as typewriters. Show More Summary
GSA announces changes to its government-wide shopping catalog
The General Services Administration announced a new effort to jettison obsolete contracts listed on its schedules, the shopping catalog for the government. GSA maintains more than 8,000 obsolete contracts with firms that sell items such as typewriters. Show More Summary
FedRAMP will standardize security requirements for cloud computing contracts
The General Services Administration on Wednesday unveiled a single authentication standard for government cloud computing services. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known as FedRAMP, will standardize the basic security...Show More Summary
GSA bonuses, travel expenses raise congressional ire
The General Services Administration has come under fire from congressional critics who are decrying questionable bonuses and travel expenses. Since 2008, the GSA gave more than $1 million in bonuses to 84 employees under investigation by its inspector general, according to details released Monday by the office of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). Read full article >>
Concur Rallies On GSA Deal For Online Travel Booking Services
Concur shares jumped Monday after the company announced that it won a contract to provide the U.S. General Services Administration to manage online travel bookings, authorizations and voucher processing. Concur said that it will “support the GSA to help federal agencies realize the cost savings, compliance benefits, and reporting capabilities that arise from using an [...]
Senator details $1.1 million in bonuses over four years
Since 2008, the General Services Administration gave more than $1 million in bonuses to 84 employees under investigation by the agency’s inspector general, according to details released by the office of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). Read full article >>
‘Virtual’ GSA employees spent $750,000 on travel over nine months
Ninety-five high-ranking employees at the General Services Administration who are assigned to work from home racked up $750,000 on travel over nine months, documents show, prompting concerns from agency officials but no action to curtail the expenses. Read full article >>
Jeffrey Neely’s GSA departure package criticized by House committee chair John Mica
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, criticized the retirement package received by Jeffrey Neely, the General Services Administration official caught in a Las Vegas conference spending scandal.
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Man At Center Of Federal Agency's Las Vegas Scandal Leaves His Job
Jeff Neely, the regional official at the General Services Administration who hosted a 2010 taxpayer-funded conference that became a scandal as details about excessive spending, gifts and lavish parties were revealed, is no longer with the agency.
Sin City showdown
The Washington Times General Services Administration (GSA) employees aren’t the only ones living it up in the shadow of the Las Vegas Strip. Public servants who serve themselves on the public’s dime have drained state, municipal and federal coffers nationwide. As the money runs out, showdowns over spending levels are inevitable. That’s what’s happening right now [...]
Official Who Planned $800,000 GSA Conference in Las Vegas Is Out
Jeff Neely, the General Services Administration regional commissioner who planned the no-expense-spared $822,000 conference complete with a mind reader and very expensive food, is gone from the agency. The GSA, which handles administrative and management duties for the government, placed Neely on administrative leave after news broke about the absurdly lavish
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Extravagant party planner 'no longer employed with GSA'
Jeffrey Neely, the man responsible for planning the General Services Administration's lavish conference in Las Vegas — which led to a federal investigation and the resignation of the agency's director — and four other GSA employees are out their jobs, agency official …
Jeffrey Neely, GSA official who organized Las Vegas conference, leaves the agency
Jeffrey E. Neely, the embattled General Services Administration regional commissioner who planned a lavish Las Vegas employee conference that cost more than $800,000, has left the agency, a GSA spokesman said. Read full article >>
Government wants you to run lighthouses
Looking to take care of a lighthouse? The General Services Administration says it will convey a dozen of them along the Eastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes to qualifying state or local governments, nonprofit organizations, historic preservation groups or community development organizations. Read full article >>