Acquisition
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Lt. Gen. Bob Ferrell, the Army’s chief information officer/G6, said there are several parallel initiatives like data center consolidation and network consolidation to reach the end goal of having a modernized IT infrastructure and end-user services.
December 16, 2016 -
Last year, the federal government awarded nearly $440 billion in contracts, and nearly $90 billion of it went to small business. That's according to figures compiled by American Express. Lourdes Martin-Rosa, American Express adviser on government contracting, shares the latest on small business procurement on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 16, 2016 -
In 2016, the Government Accountability Office came down on the side of companies challenging federal procurement decisions more often than in any year in almost a decade, according to data the office sent to Congress Thursday afternoon.
December 15, 2016 -
The General Services Administration is beginning environmental, transportation and historic preservation studies on three locations for Labor's new building. The move is part of a broader effort by GSA this year to find homes for government agencies
December 15, 2016 -
The procurement policy changes in the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act for 2017 take up 230 pages and include more than 100 provisions. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell goes over the highlights on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 15, 2016 -
Federal contracting officials advised women small business owners that if they want to succeed in government business, it's all about being professional and being themselves.
December 14, 2016 -
President-elect Donald Trump's promises to expand the military are bringing up classic debates that may end with a bigger force structure.
December 14, 2016 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Tom Davis, director of Federal Government Affairs for Deloitte and former congressman from Virginia’s the 11th District, analyzes the results of the 2016 Presidential Election. December 13, 2016
December 14, 2016 -
Federal CIOs say if you want to get on board with agile services, be adaptable, communicate and don't be afraid to fail.
December 13, 2016 -
The Air Force is close to hiring an industry executive to change the way it procures big ticket IT items.
December 13, 2016 -
For decades the government has tried to buy as one big organization to consolidate its buying power. The latest iteration of that effort is called category management. The White House and General Services Administration have settled on about a dozen categories of products and services purchased widely across government. Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service , joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a progress report on the information technology category.
December 13, 2016 -
At the General Services Administration, a team of category managers works to establish the contract vehicles and policies for each member's particular category. One of the fastest growing type of items for federal agencies is professional services. Federal Drive with Tom Temin talks to Tiffany Hixson, the GSA's professional services category executive, at the National Contract Management Association meeting in Washington.
December 13, 2016 -
DoD's top personnel officer says Congress is imposing too many acquisition changes and not leaving enough staff to implement them.
December 12, 2016 -
The Unified Shared Services Management Office at GSA released a new 10-year vision for federal back-office shared services that relies on a subscription or as-a-service model to deal with the needs for upfront spending.
December 09, 2016 -
Jackie Space, founder of a Silicon Valley company called BMNT, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, federal managers often blame the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) for getting in the way of collaboration between government and industry. Space advises using authorities already in the FAR to try non-traditional relationships.
December 09, 2016