Acquisition
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Tucked into the National Defense Authorization bill for 2017 were two provisions that would change contract protests and not in a way favorable industry. The Professional Services Council had asked House Armed Services Committee leaders to drop them. PSC Executive Vice President Alan Chvotkin joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what's in the bill.
May 05, 2016 -
Funny thing about small business rules. If you say you're small, you normally have to be small. If you tell federal customers you'll do your own work yourself, you've got to do the work yourself. So why do so many contractors try to get around these basics? Joseph Petrillo, procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to describe a new case that proves the old rule.
May 05, 2016 -
Kareem El-Alaily, managing director of Censeo Consulting Group, highlights the importance of strategic vendor oversight processes for ELA success.
May 05, 2016 -
The American Small Business League filed a lawsuit May 3 calling on the Small Business Administration to stop what its president claims amounts to giving small business contracts to large firms and "inflating" numbers to meet compliance goals.
May 04, 2016 -
False stories harm the reputations of both the government and the contractor. Even whole programs.
May 04, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget released a new memo May 4 formalizing existing initiatives and creating new efforts to help agencies move to shared services more easily.
May 04, 2016 -
The U.S. Postal Service procurement officials say supply chain diversity not only brings small, minority-owned, and women-owned companies into the business of government, but keeps the agency flexible enough to meet new challenges.
May 04, 2016 -
Industry partners are trying to give the next DHA CIO a leg up when the position is filled.
May 03, 2016 -
GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth announced May 3 the creation of the Technology Transformation Service, which brings together 18F, the Presidential Innovation Fellows program and the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT).
May 03, 2016 -
The Postal Service has several big indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contracts worth billions, but it doesn't always follow the rules. Lucine Willis, deputy director for supply management and facilities in USPS' Office of Inspector General, fills in the all details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 03, 2016 -
Jonahtan Ende, June Marshall and Blake Hall are the CEOs and founders of three successful start-up companies. They join host John Gilroy on Federal Tech Talk to talk about their businesses and how the global incubator 1776 is helping start-ups transform industries and the federal government. May 3, 2016
May 02, 2016 -
SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet says her agency is spearheading several programs that make startup easier for small businesses. SBA also announced its 2016 Small Business Person of the Year award, which went to woman-owned, LGBT coffee company in California.
May 02, 2016 -
Matthew Fay, a foreign and defense policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank. tells Pentagon Solutions how proposed reforms to the Defense acquisition process are missing the target.
May 02, 2016 -
The Professional Services Council and IT Alliance for Public Sector say lowest price technically acceptable is the wrong process to use when evaluating ENCORE III bidders.
May 02, 2016 -
Reps. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) and Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), chairman and ranking member of the Small Business Committee respectively, wrote a letter to GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth in early April asking for more details on how GSA is ensuring category management doesn’t impact small businesses.
May 02, 2016