Acquisition
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DISA awarded 14 contracts from 30 proposals for the unrestricted portion of its Systems Engineering, Technology and Innovation contract.
December 13, 2018 -
At least in the beginning, GSA will limit commercial marketplaces to the micropurchase threshold. But officials said industry input shaped their thinking up to this point, and encouraged more.
December 13, 2018 -
The Shared Services Coalition, the National Academy of Public Administration and the Senior Executives Association will release a new report highlighting lessons learned from a series of workshops over the last year.
December 11, 2018 -
Customs and Border Protection has told Accenture Federal Services to stop some work on the $297 million contract it signed late last year to help the agency more quickly hire border patrol agents and officers.
December 11, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Customs and Border Protection issues Accenture a partial stop work order to pause its nearly 300 million dollar contract to hire more border patrol agents.
December 11, 2018 -
Oracle says the Defense Department's JEDI acquisition is fatally flawed, violating numerous procurement and conflict of interest statutes.
December 11, 2018 -
Robert Burton, a former deputy administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and now a partner with Crowell & Moring, makes the case for using commercial practices for government online marketplace purchases.
December 10, 2018 -
At the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearing on Wednesday on the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, the latest scorecard is expected to show progress in several areas.
December 10, 2018 -
The General Services Administration told agencies they could have up to three more years to transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract, but had to meet certain short term deadlines.
December 10, 2018 -
Glenn Davidson, the former executive director of enterprise services at the Commerce, said after three years the agency is seeing better services and cost avoidance from consolidating IT, acquisition and HR services.
December 10, 2018 -
After losing its case before the Government Accountability Office, Oracle is taking its protest of DoD's huge cloud procurement to the Court of Federal Claims
December 07, 2018 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement supports GSA's decision to hold an e-commerce industry day next week to discuss the future of the Multiple Award Schedule and 2018 defense authorization's Section 846.
December 07, 2018 -
The federal acquisition system might be complicated and slow, but it's not immune to change. In fact, Congress and its own practitioners are constantly tinkering with it.
December 06, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new study by the RAND Corporation analyzes how military pay stacks up against civilian pay over the last 20 years.
December 06, 2018 -
Melanie Corcoran-Freelander, chief technology officer at Ursa Space Systems, said her secret for success hits very close to home: Strong support system.
December 05, 2018