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The Federal Acquisition Regulation is clear, fixed-price contracts are just that: Fixed price. There's no provision for adjustments because of inflation. Or is there? A memo last week from the Defense Pricing and Contracting office offers some hope. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with someone who has studied the memo closely: Zach Prince, a partner at Smith, Pachter, McWhorter.
DARPA thinks security clearance issues are keeping a vast array of innovative companies from solving the government's biggest problems. The agency thinks it has big idea to bridge the security clearance gap.
Although FASA’s implementation started out with promise, 27 years on we have witnessed regulatory, operational and procedural steps backward.
GSA and DoD updated policies to require make it a little easier for vendors to raises prices under current contracts.
Section 6722 of the 2023 NDAA would require DHS to mandate a bill of materials for technology from current and future contractors and some in industry are calling the provision problematic.
The Defense Pricing and Contracting office issued a deviation to the FAR giving contracting officers the ability to continue to award contracts even if companies are not fully registered in SAM.gov.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy says there is growing demand for the Digital IT Acquisition Professional Program (DITAP) certification.
Within the next week, DoD hopes to update its policies to allow more vendors hit by inflation to request price increases on their fixed-price contracts.
Peter Lierni of Solutioneering joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the high turnover in business development and capture personnel and other issues impacting the procurement/RFP process.
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the acquisition workforce, transactional data reporting, and sustainability in procurement.
USDA and NOAA are among the agencies that are taking advantage of the continuity of service agreements, giving them an extra year to complete their transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
The General Services Administration started to do pre-award audits of companies before they get on the schedule contract to ensure they aren’t using any prohibited telecommunication products from China.
The draft "CAP" document laying CMMC assessment procedures is set to be revised after being roundly criticized.
Stephanie Alexander, partner and co-founder of GovMates and founder/CEO of BOOST, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss some caveats for small businesses entering government contracting and innovation in the GovCon market.