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On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Federal News Radio's Eric White checked in with Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, for some predictions about the effect of the White House's so-called skinny budget on contracting.
Small businesses growing more worried about the impact of category management on their opportunities to compete for contracts. OFPP required each category manager to submit a plan for how they will address those concerns.
The Defense Department mandated the use of a services acquisition workshop in 2012 for all procurements worth more than $1 billion. The success of the effort is leading other agencies to use it.
Entrepreneur and angel investor Tien Wong of Lore Systems joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of innovation, federal IT, the upcoming G-Tech forum, and the value of social networking. March 7, 2017
The Coalition for Government Procurement says its imperative to reform GSA's Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) program.
When two competing bids come in for one contract, and the winner is tens of millions of dollars higher then the loser, something's up. That's what happened in the case of an Army communications deal. You can guess the result. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
In part two of a special report: Defense Acquisition at a Crossroads, Federal News Radio examines the challenges the Defense Department will face as it implements numerous Congressional acquisition reforms, many of which it didn't ask for.
The Pentagon’s internal improvement plan, known as Better Buying Power, coincided with several consecutive years of declines in the rate of cost growth for the Pentagon’s major weapons systems, from more than 9 percent in 2011 to 3.5 percent in 2015, the lowest level since 1985.
When President Donald Trump issued his executive order freezing federal hiring, it contained a clause against using contractors to make up for it. Often these types of rules are leaky. David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what services contractors are seeing right now.
Our hunger for more guidance from the Trump administration stems from what we’re used to from the last 24 years of administrations.
DoD may clarify its independent research and development policy to make it easier for industry to consult with the government.
Freezing civilian federal workers might leave the Navy short the engineers it needs to build up to 355 ships.
The Trump administration needs to work around roadblocks, solidify its plans and use a pinch of skepticism to better the military.
A Defense Department memo creates cross-functional teams to find where military services are overlapping in business practices.