Acquisition Policy
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The Defense Department builds economic assumptions and cost savings into its budget, but when those savings are too optimistic it hurts critical programs.
February 24, 2016 -
On this week’s show, we take a detailed look at the long-awaited instruction the Defense Department issued in January on services acquisition. DoD Instruction 5000.74 is the first standalone instruction the department has ever issued specifically…
February 24, 2016 -
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Stephen Welby told Federal News Radio in an exclusive interview how DoD is allaying commercial industry's acquisition fears.
February 22, 2016 -
At the General Services Administration, the 18F group has made a reputation for itself as the people to go to for agile development, rapid software deployment and general digital innovation. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin just a couple of weeks ago, two 18F staff members described their success with using reverse auction techniques to acquire software code at the micro purchase threshhold. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, offers a contrary view.
February 22, 2016 -
Through a system once known as contract court and now called Services Requirements Review Boards (SRRBs), the Defense Department is looking to cut 10 percent of its spending on contracted services within DoD's "fourth estate" this year.
February 22, 2016 -
GSA issued a request for quotes under the Alliant Small Business governmentwide acquisition contract to modernize three major acquisition data systems, including FedBizOpps.gov.
February 22, 2016 -
Matt Goodrich, the FedRAMP program office director, said the cloud cybersecurity effort is gaining interest, and JAB is looking to take advantage of that attention through an improved authorization process.
February 19, 2016 -
Proposal expert Betsy Blakney joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the key elements of thought leadership and their role in winning business with the federal government. February 22, 2016
February 18, 2016 -
Brian Friel, principal at One Nation Analytics LLC, discusses Alliant 2, Encore 3, category management and more when he joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf. February 16, 2016
February 18, 2016 -
Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group and chair of the Coaliton for Government Procurement, discusses category management, GSA's Schedules Transformation Initiative, and the current state of commercial item contracting. February 9, 2016
February 18, 2016 -
Contractors with expiring General Services Administration multiple award schedule contracts have a new goodie. A new clause gives an afterlife to that contract — a really long afterlife. That's just one of the tidbits you should know about from the weekly blog of Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more details.
February 17, 2016 -
Like the line in the famous Joni Mitchell song, Stan Soloway, former Pentagon procurement chief, has seen life from both sides now, or at least federal acquisition. Soloway recently stepped down after 15 years as CEO of the Professional Services Council, a trade group representing hundreds of defense contractors. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss why the Defense Department and everyone connected to it is wondering what happens next.
February 17, 2016 -
The Army uses Other Transaction Authority to buy cyber prototypes and hopes to use IT Box to deploy them broadly.
February 15, 2016 -
DoD released a proposed rule that will require companies to give the Pentagon more information about IR&D projects.
February 15, 2016 -
The General Services Administration withdrew an RFQ for data analytics after working on it for more than 18 months.
February 15, 2016