Acquisition
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Stephanie Halcrow, president of the Halcrow Group and senior fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting and Moshe Schwartz, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss their report: "The Power of Many: Leveraging Consortia to Promote Innovation, Expand the Defense Industrial Base, and Accelerate Acquisition."
September 28, 2022 -
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chairman of Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, introduced and the full body passed the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022 on Wednesday.
September 21, 2022 -
The Federal Acquisition Regulation is clear, fixed-price contracts are just that: Fixed price. There's no provision for adjustments because of inflation. Or is there? A memo last week from the Defense Pricing and Contracting office offers some hope. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with someone who has studied the memo closely: Zach Prince, a partner at Smith, Pachter, McWhorter.
September 21, 2022 -
DARPA thinks security clearance issues are keeping a vast array of innovative companies from solving the government's biggest problems. The agency thinks it has big idea to bridge the security clearance gap.
September 19, 2022 -
Although FASA’s implementation started out with promise, 27 years on we have witnessed regulatory, operational and procedural steps backward.
September 16, 2022 -
GSA and DoD updated policies to require make it a little easier for vendors to raises prices under current contracts.
September 15, 2022 -
Section 6722 of the 2023 NDAA would require DHS to mandate a bill of materials for technology from current and future contractors and some in industry are calling the provision problematic.
September 14, 2022 -
Federal agencies are moving into the spend it or lose it stage of the fiscal year with just two weeks to go.
September 13, 2022 -
The Defense Pricing and Contracting office issued a deviation to the FAR giving contracting officers the ability to continue to award contracts even if companies are not fully registered in SAM.gov.
September 13, 2022 -
A recent attempt at a blanket purchase agreement landed the General Services Administration into a protest with Office Depot.
September 08, 2022 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy says there is growing demand for the Digital IT Acquisition Professional Program (DITAP) certification.
September 08, 2022 -
Within the next week, DoD hopes to update its policies to allow more vendors hit by inflation to request price increases on their fixed-price contracts.
September 08, 2022 -
Peter Lierni of Solutioneering joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the high turnover in business development and capture personnel and other issues impacting the procurement/RFP process.
September 07, 2022 -
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the acquisition workforce, transactional data reporting, and sustainability in procurement.
September 05, 2022 -
USDA and NOAA are among the agencies that are taking advantage of the continuity of service agreements, giving them an extra year to complete their transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
September 02, 2022