The General Services Administration awarded its COMET IT services vehicle three years ago hoping to accelerate the modernization of legacy systems.
COMET has been so successful, the Office of the CIO had to add eight new vendors earlier this year…
“The contract was originally let to manage many of the system modernization and transformation efforts that are underway in the Federal Acquisition Service. We’ve generated enough good business outcomes there that we’re expanding the use into broader parts of the GSA business portfolio,” [David Shive, the chief information officer at GSA] said. “Now some Public Buildings Service (PBS) systems are in play. Now some of our corporate systems are in play, and some of the shared services that were running within the agency are in play. That’s a good sign of contract growth, driven by good outcomes.” … Read the full article here.
