Acquisition Policy
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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.
August 31, 2022 -
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs need to be reauthorized by Sept. 30 or federal research and development efforts will stall.
August 30, 2022 -
Michael Parrish, chief acquisition officer and Phil Christy, deputy executive director, from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction (OLAC) join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion focusing on VA operations and key policy, program, and modernization initiatives.
August 29, 2022 -
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors can largely go back into effect — at least for now — overturning a lower court ruling that enjoined the contractor mandate nationwide.
August 26, 2022 -
A former Public Buildings Service commissioner said aligning clean energy and other sustainability goals with agency missions is central to achieving low carbon benchmarks.
August 25, 2022 -
Influence Builder Founder and CEO Danielle Clark joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide-ranging discussion on attraction marketing.
August 25, 2022 -
Federal contracting experts say Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) letter to the Justice Department misses the mark on how to improve the suspension and debarment process.
August 22, 2022 -
Deborah Haywood, of McKesson Medical Surgical, joined this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the imperative of medical supply chain resilience and the role of the national strategic stockpile.
August 22, 2022 -
The Federal Acquisition launched the final piece of the replacement for the Federal Acquisition Institute Training Application System (FAITAS) in May, terminating the 11-year-old technology.
August 19, 2022 -
Ben Hall, chief executive officer of Golden State Medical Supply, Inc. (GSMS), joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion focusing on key contracting programs and purchasing trends in the federal generic pharmaceutical market.
August 16, 2022 -
Alan Thomas, chief operating officer at IntelliBridge, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the key management, procurement, and policy trends at GSA.
August 16, 2022 -
The Defense Health Agency publicly called out seven companies who are ineligible to bid on a $1.5 billion IT contract because those firms won a spot on a different DHA contract.
August 15, 2022 -
McMahon, Welch and Learned PLLC attorney Lew Rhodes joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on bid protests.
August 12, 2022 -
For many years the Department of Veterans Affairs has worked to make it easier for veterans to access VA services. Now the department is two months into an effort to make it easier for vendors — and what the department calls "innovators" — to put their services and capabilities before VA program and contract people. It's a website called Pathfinder.
August 11, 2022 -
For the U.S. Army and one of its software contractors, the conflict in Afghanistan is still going on. An unresolved dispute over licensing of language translation software has entered a new phase, eight years after the company first claimed breach of contract.
August 10, 2022