Brian Friel: Power of incumbent contractors is declining

Competition in the federal market is up for the third year in a row. And some contractors with skin already in the game don't have as many advantages anymore. For...

Competition in the federal market is up for the third year in a row. And some contractors with skin already in the game don't have as many advantages anymore. For example, the rate at which incumbents are winning is down more than 20 percent since fiscal 2014, according to a new report from Bloomberg Government. Brian Friel is a government contracts analyst for Bloomberg. He tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu that some agencies are especially hard on incumbents.

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