Federal IT security spending to drop 50 percent in 2007
Government to spend only $118 billion in the face of congressional belt-tightening; major contracts still to come include: GSA’s Alliant, Treasury’s Project Support Solutions, and Agriculture’s Multiple Award Information Technology Support Services
We hate to the bearer of bad tidings, but such is our duty when the occassion calls for it: A new Input report finds that the value of the top twenty U.S. government IT contracts in fiscal year 2007, $118 billion, will be less than half of that of fiscal year 2006. In addition, the average ceiling value, the maximum possible value of the contract over its life, dropped year-over-year from $12 billion to $6 billion, according to the report. Congressional belt-tightening and the awarding of a number of large contracts in 2006, including a $45 billion contract for a variety of IT services at DHS and a $42 billion contract at the Department of Energy, were cited as reasons for the slide. All told, the federal IT budget grew by less than $1 billion between 2006 and 2007. Some of the largest IT contracts expected in 2007 include:
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The GSA’s Alliant full and open contract, which has an estimated value of $50 billion over 10 years and includes services such as biometrics, business process re-engineering, communications and distance learning
The Army’s Services for Operations, Planning, Training and Resource Support Services for Warfighter Operations project, phase 2, which is estimated to be worth $30 billion over five years and focuses on operational planning, training, flight operations, and modeling and simulation
The Alliant small business contract, which has an estimated value of $15 billion over 10 years and includes information systems engineering and systems operation and maintenance
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Project Support Solutions contract, with an estimated value of $10.8 billion over five years
The GSA’s contract for companies in historically underutilized business zones, which has an estimated value of $2.5 billion over five years
The Department of Agriculture’s Multiple Award Information Technology Support Services contract, phase 3, which is estimated to be worth $2 billion over five years
-read more in this Computer World report
