Contracting

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Joe Biden

New rules coming for contractors working on federal infrastructure projects

Companies leaders who want a piece of projects funded by last year’s infrastructure bill, should pay attention.

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(AP Photo/J. David Ake)FILE - In this April 1, 2014, file photo, the headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development is seen in Washington. The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think tanks using an email marketing account of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Microsoft said, late Thursday, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

USAID revamps the way it engages with overseas development partners

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Questions surrounding MAS FSS price analysis: Low price regardless of context

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Labor leaders urge Biden administration to investigate systemic racial inequity at large federal contractor

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Commerce’s CATTS procurement exemplifies all that’s wrong with federal small business contracting

A dozen unsuccessful bidders protested the award of CATTS IT services contract, claiming Commerce didn’t evaluate their proposals properly.

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Election 2022 Senate Maryland

Under this proposed law, federal agencies could not just skip town

Still annoyed by the Trump administration’s relocation of two Agriculture Department bureaus, a senator has introduced legislation to raise the bar for…

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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 file photo, a member of the American Red Cross distributes food to residents of Coney Island affected by Superstorm Sandy in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A year after receiving huge sums to respond to Superstorm Sandy, the American Red Cross experienced a 32 percent drop in charitable donations in 2014. It fell from ninth to 21st place among the nation's best-supported nonprofits _ its lowest ranking since The Chronicle of Philanthropy began an annual survey in 1991. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Should government leave some problems for the non-profit sector to solve?

Numerous recent polls show a low level of public faith in government. At least in some minds, that raises the question of whether the government is trying to solve too many problems.

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