![]() ![]() However, as with the long-in-the-works USDA award, other significant awards are likely in coming months. “By that estimate, we may lose between $300 million and half a billion dollars in unrealized cost savings by next year,” he added. GSA estimates that failure is costing $22.4 million each month. “We are now in the ridiculous position of being three years into a 10-year contract that we haven’t even implemented,” said the committee's chairman, Rep. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee met May 20 and excoriated agencies for their failure to meet earlier deadlines. “Of course, this one has been on the drawing board a long time,” said Warren Suss, president of Suss Consulting, “but it is USDA’s largest award and a significant one for Networx.”Īgencies have been under increasing pressure from multiple sources, including senior management of the agencies, GSA and Congress, to make the latest transition deadline of June 2011. ![]() ![]() The award is a major step toward transitioning a Cabinet-level agency off GSA’s older, generally more expensive, governmentwide telecommunications contract, AT&T said. Under a $350 million, seven-year Networx Universal contract, AT&T Government Solutions will provide the USDA with IP virtual private network and managed security services. The Agriculture Department settled on a new provider to help implement its transition from the General Services Administration’s soon-to-expire FTS2001 contract to Networx. ![]()
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