Acquisition
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Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) recently introduced a bill to boost data science education. It would offer up to $10 million in grants to schools from nursery school to four-year colleges.
April 10, 2023 -
The Space Development Agency found ways to condense the timeline for its low earth orbit satellites.
April 07, 2023 -
If you buy or approve the acquisition of software for the government, you probably already know. You're going to have to deal with something called a software bill of materials, or S-BOM as part of understanding what you're getting.
April 07, 2023 -
Continuous improvement in the MAS policies, procedures and workforce training will enhance delivery of best value solutions for customer agencies through sound business opportunities for MAS contractors.
April 07, 2023 -
The changes are aimed at making "a more efficient, effective regulatory review process that will help improve peoples’ lives."
April 06, 2023 -
The State Department has finalized changes expected to it easier for people with disabilities to join the Foreign Service.
April 05, 2023 -
Tiffany Hixson, the assistant commissioner for the Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories in the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, said some of the changes to OASIS+ were around NAICS codes and greenhouse gas emission reporting.
April 04, 2023 -
The National Institutes of Health’s IT Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) chose 257 small businesses, including 123 in the 8(a) program, to be on its CIO-SP4 IT services governmentwide acquisition contract.
April 03, 2023 -
The negotiation and award of MAS contracts is the fundamental first step in providing customer agencies with access to commercial products, services and solutions. Fair and reasonable pricing grounded in the reality of the marketplace, not LPRC, however, is critical, especially if the government is to maintain an open, competitive and innovative MAS program that provides sound business opportunities for contractors that deliver best value solutions for customer agencies.
March 31, 2023 -
Companies leaders who want a piece of projects funded by last year's infrastructure bill, should pay attention.
March 30, 2023 -
Top Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are planning to introduce legislation that would pause the VA’s troubled rollout of a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) until sites already using the system show improvement.
March 29, 2023 -
GovCon guru and attorney Alan Chvotkin, partner at Nichols Liu, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to share his key rules of government contracting.
March 29, 2023 -
The Commerce Department's inspector general is hiring fast to oversee billions of dollars in CHIPS Act spending.
March 24, 2023 -
Addressing the FAR price analysis requirements in FAS operations, enhancing and expanding training for the MAS contracting workforce, and providing management with the appropriate discretion to support the workforce are all key steps to addressing the challenges and questions surrounding MAS price analysis.
March 24, 2023 -
Mark Krzysko, president of the Association for Federal Information Resources Management, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, to discuss what his organization is doing for the GovCon community.
March 22, 2023