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How to Make the Right IT Buying Decisions this Federal Year-End Federal fiscal year-end. Busy, busy, busy! Given the plethora of companies competing for their share of fiscal year-end dollars, especially in the crowded IT market place, federal fiscal year-end is always a crazy time for procurement officials. The pressure is on to make the right buying decisions while moving the procurement process along as quickly as possible.

Looking to make the most of your agency's federal year-end budget? Now is a great time to snap up the Autodesk software or training you've been eyeing.

The financial impact of flooding on U.S. coastal cities is crippling and with rising sea levels and coastal populations, it’s anticipated to get much worse.

New mobile-first solution uses BIM 360 Field data to help owners realize operating potential of their buildings

Federal fiscal year-end is right around the corner, but is it really the busy buying season that we’ve come to expect? As any Fed or politico knows, September is traditionally the month that keeps purchasing officers on their toes and budget hawks in attack mode. As budgets expire, agencies are often perceived as rushing to spend excess funds in order to avert any impact on future budget appropriations. If you were ever in any doubt, new research proves that this “use it or lose it” tendency among federal agencies is a very real thing.

By Zach Mortice Commissioned in the depths of the Great Recession, Federal Center South, the Army Corp of Engineers’ regional headquarters in Seattle, was funded by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. But stimulus money came with big strings attached—namely strenuous requirements that it had to be built very, very quickly and very, very sustainably.