Acquisition Policy
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The General Services Administration picked 109 vendors for the $11.5 billion unrestricted and small business Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTs) contracts.
May 17, 2016 -
BirchGrove Consulting president Ray Bjorklund joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the President's proposed 2017 budget and what it means for contract addressable spending. May 17, 2016
May 16, 2016 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron to discuss category management initiatives coming out of the Office of Management and Budget and the keys to reorganizing procurement operations across GSA. May 10, 2016
May 16, 2016 -
Category management was supposed to streamline how the government buys commodities and save money. But it might also be squeezing out small business and, instead, driving prices higher. At least that's what some members of Congress are asking the General Services Administration. Larry Allen , president of Allen Federal Business Partners, shares his perspective on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 16, 2016 -
The continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program is relying on a blanket purchase agreement approach that isn’t as flexible as DHS and GSA officials thought it would be.
May 16, 2016 -
The space agency released its entire source selection document for why it chose SAIC over CACI for a $447.8 million award.
May 16, 2016 -
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is revamping the Defense Innovation Unit Experiment before it even turns a year old.
May 11, 2016 -
Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, said Tuesday that he’s comfortable with a package of procurement reforms the House Armed Services Committee passed two weeks ago, largely because the final bill took a step back from strict language that would have required DoD to use modular open architectures on all of its major weapons systems.
May 11, 2016 -
Objections to the use of lowest-price technically acceptable for contracts are growing, including Booz Allen Hamilton and CACI protests of DISA’s $17.5 billion ENCORE III solicitation and a new bill from two senators to restrict when the military uses this type of contract.
May 09, 2016 -
Funny thing about small business rules. If you say you're small, you normally have to be small. If you tell federal customers you'll do your own work yourself, you've got to do the work yourself. So why do so many contractors try to get around these basics? Joseph Petrillo, procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to describe a new case that proves the old rule.
May 05, 2016 -
Kareem El-Alaily, managing director of Censeo Consulting Group, highlights the importance of strategic vendor oversight processes for ELA success.
May 05, 2016 -
The American Small Business League filed a lawsuit May 3 calling on the Small Business Administration to stop what its president claims amounts to giving small business contracts to large firms and "inflating" numbers to meet compliance goals.
May 04, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget released a new memo May 4 formalizing existing initiatives and creating new efforts to help agencies move to shared services more easily.
May 04, 2016 -
Industry partners are trying to give the next DHA CIO a leg up when the position is filled.
May 03, 2016 -
GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth announced May 3 the creation of the Technology Transformation Service, which brings together 18F, the Presidential Innovation Fellows program and the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT).
May 03, 2016