From Nextgov:
The Social Security Administration wants to spend less on tech and is looking for a vendor to help do its homework.
The agency issued a request for information last week for small businesses able to conduct market research on current software services and pricing, or what it calls “fair market value benchmark and optimization services.”
Citing cost-savings mandates in the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, or FITARA, and the Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies, or MEGABYTE, Act, the agency wants to have a better understanding of the software marketplace at any given time to inform buying decisions, including whether to renew existing licenses or purchase new ones.
As part of its duties, the winning vendor would be asked to produce a fair market value report on demand for a particular software or company. ...
MEGABYTE? Really? That's really a federal initiative? When was that drafted... 1982?!
ReplyDeleteThe agency will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars doing this. Then, they'll just buy whatever software they want. The people purchasing the software mostly have no clue how any of it works anyway.
ReplyDeleteBusiness as usual.