Acquisition
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Raj Sharma, the founder and CEO of the Public Spend Forum, said agencies are more willing to provide Phase 2 SBIR funding to promising technologies over the last four years.
July 05, 2023 -
Bloomberg Government estimates agencies to have more than $200 billion to spend on acquisition over the final three months of fiscal 2023.
July 04, 2023 -
Emily Murphy, the former administrator of the General Services Administration and now a senior fellow with the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, makes the case for why cost and pricing data at the main contract level is useless and burdensome.
July 03, 2023 -
Contractors and investor offer suggestions for how to improve DoD acquisition but getting ideas implemented may not be easy.
June 30, 2023 -
As a best practice, commercial firms leverage their buying power when acquiring supplies and services to support business operations.
June 30, 2023 -
NITAAC’s CIO-SP4 governmentwide acquisition contract may have to go back to Phase 1 of the evaluations after GAO agreed with 98 small firms’ complaints that the agency misevaluated proposals.
June 29, 2023 -
VA's third effort to replace its decades-old financial management system is in much better shape than its other multibillion dollar IT modernization programs. But lawmakers say they're watching it closely, and that failure isn't an option.
June 28, 2023 -
The Army now has an IT system to handle HR for all its components -- but it still has work to do.
June 26, 2023 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower in this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the current GovCon landscape.
June 26, 2023 -
Acquisition is more than a routine, if complicated, administrative process. It takes skill, collaboration and strategic thinking.
June 22, 2023 -
Because cyber threats ceaselessly change, so do the protective measures agencies need to take. Cybersecurity guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) never stay static either.
June 12, 2023 -
A memo released today extends the deadline for when agencies have to start collecting secure software attestation forms from vendors.
June 09, 2023 -
Kurt DelBene, VA’s chief information officer and assistant secretary in the Office of Information and Technology, said he will hold contractors more accountable through smaller tasks and specific metrics of success.
June 09, 2023 -
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to give an update on GSA’s key acquisition policy priorities,
June 08, 2023 -
Mark Borkowski (left), the chief acquisition officer and assistant commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection directorate in the Homeland Security Department, will leaver federal service on June 30.
June 07, 2023