The General Services Administration is working on the fourth-generation acquisition vehicle for obtaining telecommunications services. Since at least the breakup of the old Bell Telephone network in the 1980s, the government has steadily shifted toward buying more and building less.
EIS has just received bids from industry for a $50 billion deal, but the hard work is just beginning.
The last transition, from FTS 2001 to Networx, was a mess. Although it was the second and theoretically easier switch, it often looked like two baseball outfielders letting a ball drop between them because each assumed the other would catch it.
