Acquisition
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Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners gives his thoughts on a wide range of contracting issues including the latest from the Small Business Administration on size and status re-certifications and the use of OTAs in DoD. March 12, 2018
March 09, 2018 -
State Department will begin including a clause in contracts to ensure that vendors are explicitly informed up front of requirements for contractor cooperation with its Office of Inspector General.
March 09, 2018 -
Defense Department announced a single-award IDIQ approach to execute a contract lasting up to 10-years, for potentially billions of dollars in IT infrastructure services.
March 09, 2018 -
From reauthorization and reorganizations of the Homeland Security Department to whistleblower protections, security clearances and burrowing, these bills are worth keeping an eye on as the Senate debates, amends and votes on them.
March 09, 2018 -
DoD releases a draft solicitation and holds an industry day to talk about its new initiative to move to commercial cloud services.
March 08, 2018 -
The Defense Department's new chief management officer is looking for "immediate wins" in cutting bureucratic inefficiency, starting with more reliance on shared services.
March 08, 2018 -
After three years of reforms, Congress is getting its report card from the military.
March 07, 2018 -
The Federal Acquisition Service is developing a new special item number (SIN) for order level materials on service contracts.
March 07, 2018 -
The Air Force is making some of the authorities in its rapid capabilities office usable on a broader scale.
March 05, 2018 -
Lou Anne Brossman and Anne Marie Clark, members of the faculty at Government Marketing University, discuss content marketing, media and public relations, and the role of subject matter experts, when they join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center. March 5, 2018
March 02, 2018 -
Richard Beutel, founder of Cyrrus Analytics and an acquisition policy expert, makes the case for why OTAs are an important supplement to the current procurement system.
March 01, 2018 -
A regulatory change by GSA now lets agencies use the Federal Supply Schedule to pay for order level materials that aren't, themselves, part of the Schedules program.
February 26, 2018 -
The Department of Health and Human Services is reforming around six strategic shifts and 10 initiatives led by a career employee.
February 26, 2018 -
DISA issued a solicitation to a consortium of more than 500 vendors for the case management system under National Background Investigations Services initiative.
February 26, 2018 -
The Homeland Security Department’s Procurement Innovation Lab (PIL) is finding its grassroots effort to take smart risks is working.
February 26, 2018