Acquisition Policy

  • Joseph Petrillo, attorney with Petrillo and Powell in Washington, D.C., talks to The Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the new rules put in place by the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council.

    March 08, 2012
  • GSA may have to give as many as 20 agencies an extra nine months to transition to the five-year-old telecommunications contract. The agency says 96 percent of all transitions are done or in progress. GSA is developing a strategy for the next generation of telecommunications services.

    March 07, 2012
  • Deltek Chief Knowledge Officer Ray Bjorklund discusses how contractors will be affected by the new federal budget. March 6, 2012

    March 06, 2012
  • Dave McClure, the associate administrator in the OCSIT, and Kathy Conrad, the principal deputy associate administrator joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the work the office does and the progress on cloud-computing security standards in particular.

    March 06, 2012
  • Disagreement persists over whether provisions in a new contracting bill will enhance oversight of overseas contracting during conflicts or create another bureaucratic layer that penalizes contractors.

    March 02, 2012
  • Agencies will have to take new steps to ensure electronics, such as computers and copiers, are reused or recycled and do not end up in landfills, according to a governmentwide bulletin the General Services Administration issued Thursday.

    March 01, 2012
  • The committee charged with assuring cloud computing services meet federal cyber standards under the FedRAMP program will have seven broad responsibilities.

    March 01, 2012
  • Jonathan Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates Inc., joins host Roger Waldron to talk about a number of federal procurement issues. February 28, 2012(Encore presentation May 29, 2012)

    February 28, 2012
  • Gwynne Kostin, the director of mobile in the General Services Administration\'s Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies, said there has been a definite \"uptick\" of interest of late by agency tech leaders into developing mobile apps that make sense for their agencies. The Mobile Gov Wiki allows agency app developers to share best practices.

    February 23, 2012
  • In less than two years, the General Services Administration\'s mobile application website has grown from offering 15 apps to 100.

    February 23, 2012
  • The military service depends on retired federal workers\' expertise to help with policy development and buying goods and services. Congress extended the ability of agencies to hire annuitants through 2015. The Army said these experienced workers are helping to fill the acquisition workforce gaps that it created with huge reductions in the 1990s.

    February 23, 2012
  • The agency wants to make it easier for customers to buy non-IT professional services under one contract. Mary Davie, assistant commissioner at the Federal Acquisition Service, said the business case will be posted for governmentwide review by June.

    February 21, 2012
  • Host Roger Waldron talks federal procurement with David Drabkin, corporate director for Acquisition Policy at the Northrop Grumman Corporation. February 21, 2012

    February 21, 2012
  • Boxwood Executive Search President Bert Sadtler will talk about how government agencies use executive search firms. February 20, 2012

    February 20, 2012