Acquisition
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The General Services Administration’s inspector general released a new report highlighting a host of problems for the digital services office, including losing tens of millions of dollars a year and hiring more people than it had work for.
October 24, 2016 -
Bill Gormley, president of The Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron for a quarterly update on current procurement policy and program trends. October 18, 2016
October 24, 2016 -
Interior CIO Sylvia Burns shined a brighter light on the agency’s implementation of DHS’ continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program in the wake of auditors saying the effort was "immature."
October 24, 2016 -
The General Services Administration highlighted its progress since April around a series of initiatives designed to make schedule contracting more streamlined and efficient.
October 24, 2016 -
The Pentagon last week made contract awards in its promised expansion of federal government’s first-ever bug bounty — the “Hack the Pentagon” challenge which would up finding and closing 138 separate cybersecurity vulnerabilities in DoD’s public-facing websites earlier this year.
October 24, 2016 -
Professional Services Council Executive Vice President and Counsel Alan Chvotkin joins host Mark Amtower to discuss category management, the latest continuing resolution, and other issues affecting professional services contractors. October 24, 2016
October 23, 2016 -
The federal government’s cybersecurity policy has reached a crossroads, and the upcoming presidential transition is an opportunity to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and decide how to move forward.
October 21, 2016 -
FedRAMP is boasting increased authorizations and return business, and the new dashboard is making it easier for feds to use the program.
October 20, 2016 -
The Pentagon’s startup-style outfit for reaching out to innovative companies may have cracked the code for speeding up DoD’s famously ponderous acquisition system.
October 17, 2016 -
The General Services Administration’s 18F organization is reviewing bids of a solicitation to provide identity proofing and fraud detection for its Login.gov portal. But RFQ already is raising some concerns about the initiative.
October 17, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s Dave Mader said the demand for shared services is driving the government back to consider private sector providers after several years of focusing on the government only.
October 17, 2016 -
New preliminary data from Deltek’s GovWin shows agencies spent only $120 million on cloud computing in 2016 despite it being six years since OMB’s cloud-first policy.
October 17, 2016 -
Over the objections of contractors in a variety of industries, the White House is pushing ahead with new rules. One requires a week of sick leave for every employee. Attorney Ken Rosenberg, a partner at Fox Rothschild, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what's next.
October 14, 2016 -
The project, known as the Army Private Cloud Enterprise, represents the first time the Army has contracted with a private company to run a large-scale data center inside the gates of a military installation.
October 14, 2016 -
A legitimate complaint against government wrongdoing, or merely a nuisance? In this case, the Government Accountability Office says it was clearly the latter. GAO barred a company called Latvian Connection from filing bid protests. That was after the company filed 150 of them in the same year. Federal contracting specialist Steve Koprince, managing partner of Koprince Law, about the highly unusual case on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 13, 2016