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Providing Government with Vital Intelligence to Make Effective Procurement Decisions FREE access for government employees to: Over 1.3 million company profiles Over 480 organization charts of government agencies Nearly 2 million federal and state and local contacts Over 3.2 million labor rates from federal contracts Updates on thousands of active procurements Thousands of awarded RFPsRead… Read more »

A review of May’s health care and social services activity

Deltek Analyst Kate Tussey reports. Whenever I sit down to write a blog, it seems I always start with the latest number of grants the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released to states. Last month did not disappoint. In May, another $35 million went out to Indiana, Rhode Island, and Washington stateRead… Read more »

Call for Apps!!!

The Public Technology Institute is issuing a ‘call for apps’ for a new book called “The Book of Apps – Government Innovation” This is a great opportunity for you to submit your apps for consideration! Simply go to: www.thebookofapps.com for more information. Or simply go to PTIs website www.pti.org Get recognized!! Alan (PTI)

Google adds real-time updates to transit directions

Starting today, Google Maps will include real-time transit updates for selected systems. As announced on its blog, Google has partnered with six agencies for this service: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MA), Bay Area Rapid Transit (CA), TriMet (OR), San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (CA), Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (Spain) and Gruppo Torinese TrasportiRead… Read more »

Free Student Prototyping for Government Agencies

The Center for Government Interoperability partners with colleges and universities to provide free prototyping services to federal, state and local government. The universities’ objective is to provide students with real world software project experience with an emphasis on teamwork, written and oral presentations, ethics and business and industrial projects. Students are typically only available forRead… Read more »

Weiner, Keep Tweeting; The Amazing (Hill) Race; and Survey Your Followers!

Note: My weekly posts have been moved from Fridays to Mondays. So… there was not much news of a social media and politics nature over the past week or even the past 24 hours… Oh yes, there was the congressman who tried to covertly tweet a sexually explicit picture and failed… Keep Tweeting, Rep. WeinerRead… Read more »

Project of the Week: Community.SBA.gov

I learned a few week ago that the Small Business Administration (SBA) had launched a new community for small business owners, so I asked them a few questions about it. Below are their responses. 1 – Tell me about the new SBA Community project. What is the concept behind it? What does it entail? TheRead… Read more »

Our new GovLab study on cross boundary collaboration

GovLoopers, I encourage you to take a look at our new GovLab study, “XBC: Creating public value by unleashing the power of cross-boundary collaboration.” I think there are some fairly groundbreaking things in the study including a typology of cross-boundary networks, a little tool for choosing the best type of collaboration network to meet yourRead… Read more »

What I’ve been reading

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Civility in service | Public Strategist – “Civil servants should understand the constraints they accept as part of the job. They – and everybody else – should understand the limitations on public speech (not quite the same thing) which are part of the deal.” UsingRead… Read more »