Acquisition
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Visible Thread has been working for years on using automated analysis tools to improve the request for proposals writing process. Visible Thread CEO Fergal McGovern tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that federal procurement documents are incomprehensible.
April 22, 2016 -
Roger Waldron, president of The Coalition for Government Procurement, says GSA's Multiple Awards Schedule (MAS) program can provide streamlined government access to the commercial marketplace on behalf of customer agencies.
April 22, 2016 -
In the case of fixed fee contracts, you pay even if the contractor finds a way to get it done cheaper. No use protesting. That's what the Energy Department found out the hard way. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell fills in all the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 21, 2016 -
Senior officials with the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget say the answer of whether or not the May 2017 full roll-out of the DATA Act is more complicated than a simple yes or no.
April 19, 2016 -
The General Services Administration is soliciting industry input on how to buy office supplies differently through the multiple award schedules. Some in industry say GSA is reacting to continued challenges with the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI).
April 19, 2016 -
The government may be good at a lot of things, but plain language isn't one of them. Most federal rulemaking and procurement language is the worst sort of babble. Now the General Services Administration is trying to simplify instructions for companies that want to get their first multiple award schedule contract. Larry Allen of Allen Federal Business Partners shares his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 18, 2016 -
Sen. Claire McCaskill, ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, requested that the Government Accountability Office assess the Army’s contracting process, including accountability and oversight.
April 18, 2016 -
Attorney Brian Miller with Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, PC, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the Civil False Claims Act and its role in government contracts and cyber compliance requirements. April 19, 2016
April 17, 2016 -
The Defense Department will begin a phased approach to over-the-air credential authentications this summer.
April 15, 2016 -
Department of Veterans Affairs certifies to Congress that is it fully interoperable with DoD medical IT systems. But future of VA's own health record system is yet to be decided.
April 15, 2016 -
A congressional authority to hire 1,000 new cybersecurity professionals is prompting the Homeland Security Department, along with the Defense Department and Office of Personnel Management, to develop non-traditional ways to recruit and retain new talent.
April 14, 2016 -
A whole industry grew up locally known as the Beltway Bandits. But 21st century innovation has brought all sorts of new competition from outside the area. Venture capitalist Jonathan Aberman has studied this for a forthcoming report on regional development. He provides a preview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 14, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office looked at 21 large cloud contracts across five cabinet level departments, and found only seven met all of the industry best practices for service level agreements. David Powner, GAO’s director for IT management issues, with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how GAO selected those best practices, and why agencies should be following them.
April 14, 2016 -
The two agencies released a joint statement on April 12 “reaffirming the importance of preserving competition in the defense industry.”
April 14, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office's sixth annual report on "fragmentation, overlap and duplication," put the spotlight once again on the DoD, Treasury Department the Department of Health and Human Services for the "significant opportunities for cost savings and revenue enhancement [that] exist in these three areas."
April 13, 2016