Phones
Get rid of all of the non-secure phones on every desk in secure spaces. By drawing it down to one unclassified phone per cubicle (4 desks), you could eliminate the maintenance costs of these phones by 75%.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Sharing of Government Equipment
2 comments for Idea: Sharing of Government EquipmentAllowing other agencies to borrow or share equipment when the lending agency is not in need of it. Maybe the government can start a website that allows you to search the type of equipment needed, and the distance from a specific location. This would save agencies the cost of renting equipment. There is an abundance of equipment that is just idle and could be borrowed and used by other agencies.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Equipment CONSOLIDATION and ReUTILIZATION
Equipment CONSOLIDATION and Re-UTILIZATION First come first served. Someone’s trash or excess is someone’s treasure (items needed for another office / or site.) We need to start sharing our knowledge of what we have in excess and what we can donate, exchange, or give away; this could be done within the organization we all resides / or working with…. 1- Each department can provide an equipment list of excess, unused ...more »
Add your comment for Idea: Equipment CONSOLIDATION and ReUTILIZATIONEquipment CONSOLIDATION and Re-UTILIZATION First come first served.
Someone’s trash or excess is someone’s treasure (items needed for another office / or site.)
We need to start sharing our knowledge of what we have in excess and what we can donate, exchange, or give away; this could be done within the organization we all resides / or working with….
1- Each department can provide an equipment list of excess, unused or not desire equipment.
2- This list can be consolidated as a good faith estimate for property disposal - but not to be disposed of as scrap or as unserviceable items to your local supply or DRMO (Demilitarized Reutilization Marketing Office) or via disposition under form SF120, or disposal of to “Area 51.”
3- Have 2 Goods-Assets Offices (a logistics office or a Central point of distribution):
a- a Non-Information Technology (IT) or Office Furniture -- Have an office to store or coordinate the excess of furniture equipment - for utilization whiting the Agency; and after 6 or 12 moths the equipment can go on a SF120 for other agencies to take advantage.
b- An Information Technology Equipment -- Have an Office in charge of reporting all of the excess Information Technology Equipment. There is so many unopened or boxed up electronic equipment, cables, parts, magnetic media, ect out there that it can be realigned.
Example 1 --- Maybe someone has a piece of switch / router equipment, or let said a Printer or keyboard, for example it could be transferred to someone in needs of printers or networking communication equipment. And this could start within the office Organization. The cost related to this scenario; as stated before someone needs a $25,000 or $65,000 Cisco 4600 Switch with 192 Giga-Ethernet ports and fiber ports. The equipment could be transferred to the office needing the upgrade without the need of spending almost $80,000 on Switches and this kind of sort of equipment.
Example 2 --- Someone is conducting a program and there is a project of changing cables on the switches and converting this old Cat5 to Cat6 cabling, because the new technology is booming and the office is going to have Voice-over-IP technology. There was an office down the street that has excess of Cat6 cables and connectors sitting in a corner for the last 2 years. The IT Office Reutilization tapped and has the knowledge of this equipment, and then the Cable could be transferred to the NEW Project office for optimizing the network with Voice-over-IP system. The cost scenario here, someone needs 300 patch cables at approximately $15.00 a piece. The total here is $4,500 in just cables (upgrading the infrastructure to CAT6 only.)
Remember some of this part can last a long time; cables, parts, magnetic media (usually this magnetic storage media is good for 30 or 40 years.)
The question is: How many of you have some of them, knowingly that someone could benefit from it.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Monitors - Extend life for replacements - Saves 1 Billion USD!
Intro: Every federal employee loves when the IT guys says " you are getting a new computer" - which in many agencies means a laptop. This happens every three years and it is time. Three years of use at 40 hours a week and newer programs on dated technology are a problem - but why the new monitor? I have seen the property book and what they cost and been involved in "excessing" the old ones that all work fine. Do ...more »
12 comments for Idea: Monitors - Extend life for replacements - Saves 1 Billion USD!Intro: Every federal employee loves when the IT guys says " you are getting a new computer" - which in many agencies means a laptop. This happens every three years and it is time. Three years of use at 40 hours a week and newer programs on dated technology are a problem - but why the new monitor? I have seen the property book and what they cost and been involved in "excessing" the old ones that all work fine. Do you replace yours at home every three years?
My Suggestion: Change the lifecycle from 3 to five years for flat screen monitors. From years 0 to 3 they can be supported under the help desk agreements or warranties and from 3 to 5 years if they have a problem they are replaced.
2.15 million Federal works x $175 per monitor (I am low balling here) = $376,250,000 every three years or $125,416,667 per year. If it was 5 years it would be $75,250,000 per year and a savings of $50,166,667 per year! Over 20 years the savings is $1,003,333,340 - that is over a BILLION dollars for such a simple change.
Impact: None. All federal employees still have a monitor. No loss in services!
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Make Ebay.gov for Government Equipment Recycling
Wasted Government Equipment, Furniture and Computers are thrown away or sold for pennies at public auctions, but other Agencies buy new stuff because they are not aware of other Departments throwing away thier used equipment. Allow for EBAY.GOV or GBAY.GOV to be a Inter-Governmental Trading and Bartering platform for swapping Equipment and Resources from One Agency to another. The PAYPAL would be replaced by a "MIPR" ...more »
8 comments for Idea: Make Ebay.gov for Government Equipment RecyclingWasted Government Equipment, Furniture and Computers are thrown away or sold for pennies at public auctions, but other Agencies buy new stuff because they are not aware of other Departments throwing away thier used equipment. Allow for EBAY.GOV or GBAY.GOV to be a Inter-Governmental Trading and Bartering platform for swapping Equipment and Resources from One Agency to another. The PAYPAL would be replaced by a "MIPR" app for transferring money and credits between agencies easily. If my old Government Laptop would help an Agency that can't afford to buy any Laptops then it should go that agency that needs it first before being lost. It would also help to track the Inventory of All Government Equipment. There needs to be a Universal Government Inventory System and the GBAY.GOV would be a good way to add all Tagged Equipment into a Trading Platform for Hand Reciept Holders to move Equipment around efficiently.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Bring back in-house IT
Some Army agencies went away with in-house IT department and replaced them with contractors. The problem with that is computer equipment and other electronics are already costing government agencies more money than what a private buyer would pay, on top of that, we have to pay more money for the IT to service the equipment. For example, a personal printer would cost $300, we pay $450 + $400 for it to be serviced. We even ...more »
1 comment for Idea: Bring back in-house ITSome Army agencies went away with in-house IT department and replaced them with contractors. The problem with that is computer equipment and other electronics are already costing government agencies more money than what a private buyer would pay, on top of that, we have to pay more money for the IT to service the equipment. For example, a personal printer would cost $300, we pay $450 + $400 for it to be serviced. We even pay more money for monitors and it's not like monitors can be upgraded or fixed. We are wasting ridiculous amounts of money and not getting the service we used to get. This is also a problem in our field offices to which the contractors travel seldom and issues just pile up. These contractors don't even have a supervisor on site. In all, we need to eliminate the middleman and bring the in-house IT groups back.
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