Acquisition Policy
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The General Services Administration has released its next-generation telecommunications solicitation. The Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions RFP could produce contracts worth $50 billion over 15 years, and will replace the current Networx contract by 2020. Diana Gowen is a principal at Deep Water Point Consulting and a veteran of the federal telecom battles. She joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on EIS.
October 26, 2015 -
The government spends $30 billion on IT services a year. The Government Accountability Office said agencies can save a chunk of that if they bought more of those services in bulk, i.e., strategic sourcing. Tim DiNapoli, director of acquisition and sourcing management issues at GAO, recently wrote a report to Congress on this issue and he joined In Depth with Francis Rose to share the details.
October 26, 2015 -
Tens of millions of dollars in agency-by-agency service contracts are due to expire next year. GSA hopes to transition a large proportion of the spending into governmentwide vehicles such as OASIS and the GSA schedules.
October 23, 2015 -
An AASHTO Center of Excellence is scheduled to open in Transportation Department headquarters next year. The modernized space will be a collaborative area designed to foster the one-stop-shop concept.
October 22, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget is telling agencies they'll have five choices of laptop and desktop configurations to buy from now on and they'll have three choices of places to buy them from. They also have to explain to OMB why they shouldn't have to. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells In Depth with Francis Rose how this policy change will impact industry.
October 22, 2015 -
Today is veto day for the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. President Barack Obama vetoes the bill at an event in the Oval Office today. But the acquisition provisions in the bill aren't the reason for the veto, so they'll probably live on in whatever NDAA President Obama signs eventually. Rob Burton is a partner at the law firm Venable and former deputy administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. He joined Tom Temin on today's Federal Drive to review those provisions.
October 22, 2015 -
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged the rationale for reforms which centralized big decisions within the DoD acquisition system.
October 22, 2015 -
Some members of industry say the Government Publishing Office is taking advantage of a loophole in Title 44 of the U.S. Code, which lets GPO produce secure credential cards as a core agency function.
October 21, 2015 -
The House has passed a bill supporters say will streamline the agency's many moving parts by making management leaner and more efficient.
October 21, 2015 -
The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Congress sent to President Barack Obama on Tuesday contains nearly 100 separate provisions intended to reform the Defense Department's acquisition system. But that’s just the start, say Capitol Hill’s top two Defense legislators.
October 20, 2015 -
A new report highlights the Defense Department's challenges in adopting cloud services, and what it's doing to overcome them.
October 19, 2015 -
A new study says the Defense Logistics Agency could benefit from performance-based logistics contracts, but there may be some legal barriers in the way.
October 19, 2015 -
With the convention wrapped up, here's a list of major factors the Army is tackling, and what they're doing to improve them.
October 19, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s new guidance prohibits civilian agencies from buying computers off any contract except from one of three governmentwide acquisition contracts.
October 16, 2015 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the pending fiscal year 2016 budget, GSA schedules and more. October 19, 2015
October 15, 2015