Acquisition
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The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded contracts totaling nearly $1 billion to replace short barriers with tall fences along the U.S.-Mexico border
April 10, 2019 -
House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) wants DoD to pick up the pace on implementing laws.
April 09, 2019 -
Alan Balutis, a senior director and distinguished fellow for Cisco Systems’ U.S. Public Sector, details 11 steps that would make shared services work in the government.
April 09, 2019 -
Industry experts say the CIA’s C2E cloud procurement demonstrates that a multi-cloud, multi-vendor approach is necessary for the agency’s needs of today and tomorrow.
April 08, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Services Impasses Panel sides mostly with management in a disputed between labor groups and the Health and Human Services Department.
April 08, 2019 -
Evidence is mounting that civilian agencies are spending less than what they received in appropriations for fiscal 2019.
April 08, 2019 -
Susan Cengiz, Jeffery Wehner and Lisa Wax of LMI join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to talk about logistics management, data analytics, the growing uses of OTAs. and current trends in the federal market.
April 07, 2019 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss some of the big issues facing small contractors, including the impact of "best in class" contracts and the Section 809 Panel recommendation on set-asides.
April 05, 2019 -
Customs and Border Protection has ended a controversial contract with Accenture Federal Services, the contractor the agency brought on to help CBP recruit and hire hundreds of new Border Patrol agents and officers.
April 05, 2019 -
The General Services Administration will host an industry day on April 18 to detail initial thoughts around a new contract writing system.
April 05, 2019 -
That's what happened in one case, and procurement attorney Joe Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell had more to say about it on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 05, 2019 -
The Coalition believes that a single award approach is asynchronous to normal commercial and organizational buying practice and, because it represents a single channel of attack, raises concerns about potential risks to national security.
April 05, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, A DHS IG report reveals that a quarter of the 8,000 TSA officers who left the agency in fiscal 2017, left within the first six months on the job.
April 04, 2019 -
Bill Evanina of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned that public and private sector companies shouldn’t become numb to growing supply chain attacks.
April 04, 2019 -
DoD wants to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to implement a demonstration project giving Defense agencies more incentive to purchase contracts directly from eligible firms employing those with severe disabilities.
April 03, 2019