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Agency CIO Casey Coleman said the move to Google\'s gmail went smoothly and is 99 percent complete. GSA recently hired another cloud service provider to host collaboration tools. Coleman said the agency now is looking at legacy business systems. September 22, 2011
Bajinder Paul, senior IT adviser at the General Services Administration, discusses the solutions to some of those planning challenges.
Allen Federal president Larry Allen joins host Mark Amtower to talk a wide range of government procurement issues. September 19, 2011(Encore presentation October 24, 2011)
The General Service Administration wants your input on how it can improve federal websites.
A new memo details three classifications for the new contracting officer\'s representative position, which replaces the contracting officer\'s technical representatives as of Jan. 1. The goal is to improve acquisition oversight, especially of high risk contracts.
The Office of Management and Budget has issued new guidance to agencies that would accelerate payments to small-business contractors. OMB Director Jacob Lew directed Executive Branch agencies to cut the payment processing time from 30 days to 15 days.
Members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee marked up the DHS Authorization bill, complete with 68 amendments. Among the changes approved is requiring the agency to have auditable financial records by 2016.
Katherine Hammack is the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy & Environment.
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal to modernize the Navy\'s shipboard computing system. The Navy will decide early next year if it will go with Lockheed\'s designs or proposals from competitor Northrop Grumman.
Host Roger Waldron will talk about the procurement landscape with Al Burman, president of Jefferson Solutions and chairman of the Procurement Board Roundtable. September 13, 2011
For a long time your agency has been limiting its horizons for saving money. Some good, old-fashioned money management philosophies could go a long way toward helping your agency cut costs.
On today\'s Federal Drive: some agencies have netted extra cash from governmentwide acquisition contracts and furloughed FAA workers won\'t receive back pay under the latest House FAA funding reauthorization.
GAO found four of six governmentwide acquisition contracts ended up with \'excess revenue\' for the agency in each of the last four years. GSA\'s schedules programs earned an extra $62 million a year, while Interior and NASA earned an extra $4.7 million and $1.7 million annually, respectively.
Angela Styles, Partner at the law firm Crowell & Moring, and Al Burman, former OFPP Administrator, discuss the OFPP definitions published today in the Federal Register.