Information technology vendors have spotted the next big thing for serving the U.S. government market. The only questions — and they are big ones — are 1) whether federal agencies themselves have seen the same thing; and 2) if so, whether they are prepared to jump into yet another new procurement process. What the vendors have in mind for marketing a full range of capabilities to federal government agencies — which spend upwards of $80 billion per year on IT — is akin to the turnkey process used in the construction industry.
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Vendors Sow Seeds for Next Big Federal IT Thing: Convergence
Posted by: John K. Higgins November 19, 2014 03:24 PMInformation technology vendors have spotted the next big thing for serving the U.S. government market. The only questions — and they are big ones — are 1) whether federal agencies themselves have seen the same thing; and 2) if so, whether they are prepared to jump into yet another new procurement process. What the vendors have in mind for marketing a full range of capabilities to federal government agencies — which spend upwards of $80 billion per year on IT — is akin to the turnkey process used in the construction industry.