Acquisition
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In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Publishing Offices takes another stab at finding a vendor to print and mail 2020 census forms.
August 17, 2018 -
The Pentagon is using its Other Transaction Authority for "nontraditional" contractors to replace the Defense Travel System. But the recipient is a Fortune 500 company.
August 17, 2018 -
The VA bought a generic medicine from a company selling New Jersey-made tablets containing an active ingredient from India.
August 16, 2018 -
The Defense Innovation Unit is temporarily slowing down so it won't repeat past mistakes.
August 15, 2018 -
The State Department approved hundreds of multi-million-dollar purchases without taking the due diligence to ensure the agency would get the most value for their money, according to a recent inspector general report.
August 14, 2018 -
The new Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said several new people will be taking top-level leadership positions at the agency shortly. Pamela Powers will be the department's new chief of staff and Chris Syrek will be VA's deputy chief of staff.
August 14, 2018 -
GSA’s Kay Ely, the assistant commissioner for the IT category, announced she will retire by Dec. 31 after taking on a 90-day detail to work on the agency’s merger with OPM.
August 13, 2018 -
Agencies got a big boost in appropriations midway through the fiscal year, making it harder than usual for them to write contracts to spend all of their appropriated funds.
August 13, 2018 -
The Defense Department's process for buying commercial items can take even longer than its traditional procurement system.
August 13, 2018 -
Three federal procurement experts analyzed Oracle’s protest of DoD’s $10 billion cloud contract and found the software company is on solid ground.
August 13, 2018 -
The Army is trying to stay on the cusp of defensive cyber technology by using a consortium of companies.
August 10, 2018 -
Roger Waldron looks at how two agencies will further enhance the schedules to deliver best value commercial solutions to customer agencies through sound business opportunities for contractors.
August 10, 2018 -
Oracle Corp. filed a pre-award complaint with the Government Accountability Office Monday , 11 days after DoD released the final Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) solicitation.
August 07, 2018 -
A watchdog report finds contracting officials with the Government Publishing Office mismanaged the awarding of one of its biggest contracts — selecting a vendor to print and mail forms for the upcoming decennial census.
August 07, 2018 -
Attorneys Lorraine Campos, Jonathan Aronie, Jason Workmaster and David Dowd join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss "The Rogers" awards which highlight the top legal and contracting developments of the past year. August 7, 2018
August 06, 2018