Acquisition Policy

  • One thing about federal procurement, there's always something new. Congressional tinkering and case law mean some fresh wrinkles to watch for in 2016. Looking ahead to 2016, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to attorney Wojceich Kornacki, who works procurement cases for Centre Law and Consulting, for some insight.

    January 05, 2016
  • The Defense Department will have to fill Congress in on certain conditions surrounding multi-year contracts 30 days before they are awarded if a new proposed rule is adopted.

    January 04, 2016
  • Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, will give us his thoughts on the year in government procurement, and provide an update on the recent NASA SEWP training conference. January 5, 2016

    January 04, 2016
  • Marketing Consultant Kevin P. Young and ImmixGroup marketing VP Allan Rubin join host Mark Amtower to discuss business to government marketing. They will talk about traditional marketing methods as well as digital marketing, content marketing and differentiation. December 28, 2015

    December 28, 2015
  • OFPP Administrator Anne Rung and federal CIO Tony Scott issue a draft policy for public comment on making enterperisewide software licenses mandatory across the government.

    December 22, 2015
  • The Defense Department has grown its acquisition work force by 26,000 over the last few years. But it's not enough, according to the Government Accountability Office. Auditors found six of the 13 acquisition career fields didn't meet growth goals. Tim DiNapoli, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management at GAO, spoke with Federal News Radio's Eric White about the DOD's workforce issues on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    December 22, 2015
  • NITAAC Program Director Rob Coen, and Michael Fischetti, executive director of the National Contract Management Association, join host Mark Amtower to discuss a wide variety of contracting issues. December 21, 2015

    December 18, 2015
  • Ralph White, the Government Accountability Office’s managing associate general counsel for procurement law, said two federal acquisition cases went to the Supreme Court over the last year as part of an atypical fiscal 2015 for federal bid protests.

    December 18, 2015
  • Bill Gormley, president of The Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron to for a wide ranging discussion of category management, the common acquisition platform, and the current state of government contracting. December 8, 2015

    December 17, 2015
  • Tom Sisti, senior director and chief legislative counsel for SAP, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss current acquisition reform efforts, including reform provisions in the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act. December 1, 2015

    December 16, 2015
  • The latest iteration of NASA's Solutions for Enterprise Procurement is only about six months old, but officials are pleased with how things are going. So far, 147 companies have won spots on SEWP 5. That's 110 more than under SEWP 4. Joanne Woytek, SEWP program manager, spoke Monday with Federal News Radio's Jason Miller at the 34th annual Government Contracts Management Symposium hosted by the National Contract Management Association. Jason shared the latest with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    December 15, 2015
  • Federal News Radio was on hand Monday morning, Dec. 14, for the first day of the National Contract Management Association’s Government Contract Management Symposium, talking to experts about the hurdles they see ahead in contract management.

    December 15, 2015
  • Suspension and debarment officials have been cracking down on government vendors that are out of compliance for what sometimes seem like minor missteps, and vendors are also apt to criticize what they see as a wave of regulations. Adelle Elia, a consultant and former Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at USIS, spoke with Federal News Radio's Jason Miller at the 34th Annual Government Contract Management Symposium about why compliance seems harder now than ever before. Miller shares that interview with Jared Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    December 15, 2015
  • The ongoing communication breakdown between agencies and contractors is the biggest obstacle to better acquisition, several experts said. A year after the Office of Federal Procurement Policy made strengthening the government’s relationship with industry a central part of its strategy to improve the federal acquisition process, few are seeing any real change. In his weekly feature, Inside the Reporter’s Notebook, Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller finds out from industry what has improved and what hasn’t over the last 12 months. He shares that with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    December 15, 2015