Acquisition Policy
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The Professional Services Council and IT Alliance for Public Sector say lowest price technically acceptable is the wrong process to use when evaluating ENCORE III bidders.
May 02, 2016 -
Reps. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) and Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), chairman and ranking member of the Small Business Committee respectively, wrote a letter to GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth in early April asking for more details on how GSA is ensuring category management doesn’t impact small businesses.
May 02, 2016 -
Tom Davis, director of Federal Government Affairs for Deloitte, joins Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to talk about about the presidential primary campaigns and the current political climate. April 26, 2016
April 29, 2016 -
A provision tucked into the annual Defense authorization bill would order the DoD to look into how often LPTA is used, and whether DoD is following it's own guidance on when and how to use it.
April 28, 2016 -
Some Defense analysts believe changes being considered in Congress ignore the fundamental problems in the DoD acquisition system. Matthew Fay, a foreign and defense policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank, spoke with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about why he's a critic of the proposal.
April 28, 2016 -
A case now under deliberation by the Supreme Court could open contractors to all sorts of fraud and false claims lawsuits. Eric Crusius, attorney with Miles and Stockbridge, offers insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 28, 2016 -
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) plans to introduce a package of bills aimed at government reform. The legislative bundle includes extra protection for whistleblowers as well as barriers to prevent abuse of administrative leave and awarding bonuses to misbehaving employees.
April 27, 2016 -
Kareem El-Alaily, managing director of Censeo Consulting Group, argues for why there is a growing importance of negotiating better terms and conditions in enterprise software license sourcing.
April 27, 2016 -
Federal spending fell by 2 percent last year, but the rate of decline has slowed and at some agencies, contract spending is on the rise. Those are some of the findings in the latest scorecard from Govini. Matt Hummer, Govini's director of analytics, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on contract spending trends.
April 26, 2016 -
The military services are slowly, but surely adopting a new instruction to better services procurement. Meanwhile, DoD may have found a better way to collaborate with small business.
April 25, 2016 -
The General Services Administration has been asking industry for comments on the price reduction clause. Contractors, you better drop what you're doing and respond. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, has more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 25, 2016 -
The nation’s highest court is hearing arguments over a False Claims Act lawsuit that could have long-term implications on federal contractors.
April 25, 2016 -
Luke McCormack, the DHS chief information officer, and Soraya Correa, the DHS chief procurement officer, are collaborating to move the department into a more agile process for buying and developing technology systems.
April 22, 2016 -
Visible Thread has been working for years on using automated analysis tools to improve the request for proposals writing process. Visible Thread CEO Fergal McGovern tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that federal procurement documents are incomprehensible.
April 22, 2016 -
Roger Waldron, president of The Coalition for Government Procurement, says GSA's Multiple Awards Schedule (MAS) program can provide streamlined government access to the commercial marketplace on behalf of customer agencies.
April 22, 2016