Acquisition
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The military service chiefs say continuing resolutions are keeping them from planning ahead and costing them money.
September 15, 2016 -
Contractors tend to stand by during election seasons, even though the party of the forthcoming administration is a reliable indicator of what procurement policy will look like. It might be tempting to do a little lobbying or contributions to a candidate. That's OK, but only under strict rules. Justin Chiarodo, a partner at Blank Rome, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the latest.
September 15, 2016 -
DoD's Defense Innovation Unit Experimental fell on hard times, but it could be hitting a resurgence.
September 14, 2016 -
Officials with GSA's FedRAMP program say they are about to authorize the first provider coming through the accelerated process.
September 13, 2016 -
Rob Burton, partner at Crowell & Moring LLP, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the Transactional Data Reporting rule, the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule, and other major procurement issues. September 13, 3016
September 13, 2016 -
The four companies awarded contracts for background investigation work are made up of two new faces and two current federal contractors.
September 12, 2016 -
With only a few weeks left in the federal fiscal year, contractors are working hard to make their 2016 sales numbers. Three new rules, though, threaten them with higher risks but also possible good outcomes. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
September 12, 2016 -
The Pentagon’s acting inspector general tells Congress budget shortfalls are to blame for delays in investigating whistleblower reprisal claims. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports on Pentagon Solutions that the investigations took an average of about 300 days last year — much longer than the guidelines in federal law.
September 12, 2016 -
The General Services Administration is proposing to change the multiple award schedules program to allow agencies to have task orders that allow for other direct costs (ODCs).
September 12, 2016 -
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services responded to a Reporter’s Notebook story that highlighted concerns about a recent contract award for the cyber protections of Healthcare.gov portal.
September 12, 2016 -
The Defense Department will release new guidance on systems security engineering, a more detailed way of explaining how and where to engineer security features into programs, in the near future.
September 09, 2016 -
A month after being rebuked by the Government Accountability Office for the way it planned to pick vendors in a ten year, $17.5 billion IT services contract, the Defense Information Systems Agency issued a revised request for proposals Wednesday, giving vendors a little more than three weeks to submit new bid packages.
September 08, 2016 -
DoD would focus on sustainment costs if is has a chance to release another version of Better Buying Power.
September 07, 2016 -
A new report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's majority members links the 2014 and 2015 OPM breaches as coordinated attacks, and blames the agency's failure to heed warnings about its cybersecurity for the theft of PII of millions of federal employees and their families.
September 07, 2016 -
The Defense Department appointed 18 members to yet another advisory committee to study the acquisition system. But this one has a much more specific task than the blue ribbon panels that have come in the decades before it.
September 06, 2016