Acquisition
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The Defense Contract Management Agency is reexamining several of its past decisions to reimburse contractors. That's after the DoD inspector general found DCMA overruled the findings of incurred cost audits without adequate explanation.
March 08, 2021 -
What was the mergers and acquisition climate in 2020 and what's the outlook for 2021? Find out wen Kevin DeSanto, managing director and co-founder of KippsDeSanto joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center.
March 05, 2021 -
Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are pressing Senate leadership to extend 3610 authorities through Sept. 30.
February 26, 2021 -
The Competition in Contracting Act stay is only available when a protest is filed no later than ten days after contract award or no later than five days after a debriefing.
February 25, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, mass vaccination sites staffed by active duty military members are now up and running in three more cities, with more set to come online in the next few days.
February 25, 2021 -
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that is intended to boost manufacturing jobs by strengthening U.S. supply chains for advanced batteries, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals and semiconductors
February 24, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, officials at the Justice Department are sending a warning to government contractors, they will be turning up the False Claims heat on cybersecurity fraud.
February 24, 2021 -
The Postal Service, in a press release Tuesday, said the vehicles can be retrofitted to keep pace with advances in electric vehicle technologies.
February 23, 2021 -
A form of contracting known as lowest-price technically acceptable, or LPTA, has long bugged federal contractors.
February 23, 2021 -
Industry procurement experts say a new ruling by the Court of Federal Claims continues to spark debate over the rule of two requirement for small business contracting.
February 23, 2021 -
Brian Goodger, the program manager for CIO-SP4 and acting director of NITAAC, said the final solicitation for the health IT services governmentwide acquisition contract should be out mid-to-late March.
February 22, 2021 -
In conducting procurements on behalf of other agencies, the General Services Administration's Assisted Acquisition Service often turns to small business, specifically the Small Business Innovation Research Program, to get new technology into the government.
February 19, 2021 -
Some solid career people are keeping the lights on at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. But the Biden administration has so far given few signals about what it plans to do.
February 19, 2021 -
MAS consolidation has eliminated contracting stovepipes, duplication, and process burdens at the contract level. The next step for GSA is to streamline, reform, and enhance the underlying pricing policies governing contract negotiation, award, and compliance.
February 19, 2021 -
The military services have hired hundreds of new staff to ensure troops and their families have decent living conditions, but DoD says sustaining the improvements they've made will cost an extra $120 million per year.
February 18, 2021