Acquisition
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The Defense Health Agency publicly called out seven companies who are ineligible to bid on a $1.5 billion IT contract because those firms won a spot on a different DHA contract.
August 15, 2022 -
Over the course of the last week, the General Services Administration issued and received comments on a draft Ascend Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). This BPA seeks to assist agencies in their efforts “to develop and implement enterprise-level cloud acquisition strategies through a modernized and simplified approach to meet their IT and cybersecurity requirements.”
August 12, 2022 -
McMahon, Welch and Learned PLLC attorney Lew Rhodes joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on bid protests.
August 12, 2022 -
For many years the Department of Veterans Affairs has worked to make it easier for veterans to access VA services. Now the department is two months into an effort to make it easier for vendors — and what the department calls "innovators" — to put their services and capabilities before VA program and contract people. It's a website called Pathfinder.
August 11, 2022 -
For the U.S. Army and one of its software contractors, the conflict in Afghanistan is still going on. An unresolved dispute over licensing of language translation software has entered a new phase, eight years after the company first claimed breach of contract.
August 10, 2022 -
The Mentor-Protégé Program has been around for 30 years, but still is not a permanent program
August 10, 2022 -
It’s that time of year when activity on Capitol Hill usually falls into a lull. But this year’s the rare occurrence when big legislative activity is happening in August. The Senate passed a huge reconciliation bill over the weekend; the House is expected to do the same later this week. Meanwhile both houses have a lot of work waiting for them to reconcile their versions of the annual appropriations and authorization bills.
August 09, 2022 -
Joyce Bose, president and CEO of Boscobel Marketing Communications, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a lively discussion on the continuing impact of public relations in GovCon.
August 05, 2022 -
The AGILE Procurement Act in the Senate intends to make it easier for the government to buy commercial goods and services.
August 02, 2022 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the state of governmentwide contracting, with a focus on GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule program.
August 02, 2022 -
Tom Sisti, vice president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to give his thoughts on the shrinking industrial base, including why companies are leaving the market.
August 02, 2022 -
Retired Naval officer Emily Harman joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide-ranging discussion of her post-Navy experiences, especially those involving self-awareness and developing positive mindsets.
August 01, 2022 -
Voluntary CMMC assessments are set to begin in late August, but the just-released assessment process is leaving a lot of people scratching their heads.
July 29, 2022 -
GAO found DoD's Industrial Base Policy Office doesn't have a fully developed strategy to mitigate risks. Director of Contracting and National Security Acquisitions Bill Russell, joined the Federal Drive to explain.
July 27, 2022 -
Longtime defense contractor Raytheon won in court when it sued the government over intellectual property. What the company thought was IP the government assumed was merely technical data it could share with anyone.
July 27, 2022