Acquisition Policy
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The White House listed 20 pages worth of qualms with the Senate 2017 defense authorization bill, including military health care reforms, acquisition policy changes and personnel tweaks.
June 07, 2016 -
A Bahrain owned company also saw a increases in government contracting, while GE and Verizon lost federal business.
June 07, 2016 -
Roger Waldron examines two provisions from Sen. Tom Carper's amendments to the NDAA, which are of significant interest to the Federal contracting community.
June 06, 2016 -
Steve Blank teaches Hacking for Defense, a new course at Stanford University that links students with defense agencies to promote innovation in engineering.
June 06, 2016 -
Spring in Washington is when federal agencies open up to more buying and more vendor days. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, shares the three things contractors need to know in early June on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
June 06, 2016 -
Dozens of vendors are concerned they will not be able to renew their contracts to provide office supplies under GSA Schedule 75. GSA says it doesn’t plan on reopening the schedule for at least another nine months.
June 06, 2016 -
Administrator Denise Turner Roth said all facets of GSA will need to support the standup of the Technology Transformation Service.
June 03, 2016 -
David Powell, chief operating officer of the Federal Business Council, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss a wide range of GovCon issues, including cyber events in Maryland, and the upcoming Federal Channels: Government Marketing Best Practices 2020 event. June 6, 2016
June 03, 2016 -
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung and Federal CIO Tony Scott finalized a draft policy from December with few changes that requires agencies to manage and oversee software licenses in a new way.
June 03, 2016 -
The acquisition shop at the Veterans Affairs Department released 10 guiding principles to better buy products and services. While vendors are relatively optimistic about the VA's new approach, they're concerned whether contracting officers in the field are embracing those principles.
June 02, 2016 -
A lack of understanding doesn't prevent phony stories from getting halfway around the world. Attorney Terry O'Connor, director of Government Contracts at Berenzweig Leonard, shares a couple of contracting whoppers on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
June 02, 2016 -
If you snooze, you lose. That's what one major contractor found out in court when its financing partners failed to file certain paperwork. Joseph Petrillo, a procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more about this cautionary story
June 02, 2016 -
DoD is setting up Cost and Pricing Centers to form a brain trust on commercial price determinations.
May 31, 2016 -
Depending on how you look at it, the General Services Administration schedule contract program is enjoying a renaissance, or it's headed for disaster, abandoned by the best contractors. Larry Allen, of Allen Federal Business Partners, provides his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 31, 2016 -
Government contractors and GAO are likely to be busy this summer responding to several billion-dollar solicitations for IT services and dealing with the corresponding protests from the losing bidders.
May 31, 2016