Acquisition Policy

  • The top four civilian agencies can do a better job in the planning stages for service contracts, according to a new Government Accountability Office.

    August 09, 2011
  • On Today\'s Federal Drive: The effect of the S&P downgrade on federal agencies, GSA rethinks new pay-for-parking rule and the Army cuts civilian personnel.

    August 08, 2011
  • On today\'s Federal Drive, an update on the FAA shutdown, the White House names a new federal chief information officer to replace Vivek Kundra and the General Services Administration adds nearly 600 small IT firms to the STARS II contract.

    August 04, 2011
  • The General Services Administration has named 599 small disadvantaged firms to its 8(a) STARS II contract. The governmentwide IT contract, with a ceiling of $10 billion, is bigger and broader than its predecessors.

    August 04, 2011
  • Host Roger Waldron will talk government contracting with Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for the Integrated Technology Service at GSA\'s Federal Acquistion Service. August 2, 2011(Encore presentation August 16, 2011)

    August 02, 2011
  • Ashton Carter would take over for Bill Lynn, who announced in July he is retiring.

    August 02, 2011
  • Jerry Rutkowski, vice president for federal programs at 1E, joined the Federal Drive to discuss his perspective on whether GSA\'s new green-contracting provisions will help or hurt IT contractors and how the new rule fits in with energy-efficient steps suppliers have already taken.

    August 02, 2011
  • Contractors fear late or nonexistent payment from the government if the debt ceiling is not raised and the U.S. government defaults, a number of industry experts have said recently. Contractors are required to continue work even if there is a delay in payment from the government.

    July 29, 2011
  • The General Services Administration has become the first federal agency to move its entire workforce to a cloud-based email product. GSA said it moved all 17,000 of its users all at one time, but it couldn\'t have pulled off the transition without months of planning, training and preparation.

    July 28, 2011
  • The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on the best way to dispose of nearly 90,000 vacant or underutilized federal properties. While some lawmakers see property sales as a way to generate cash, it\'s not clear how much the properties are actually worth.

    July 28, 2011
  • Host Roger Waldron is joined by Stan Collender, partner with Qorvis Communications and Jason Workmaster, partner with the McKenna, Long, and Aldridge law firm. They will talk about how contractors would be affected if the debt ceiling isn\'t raised. July 26, 2011

    July 26, 2011
  • Tom Hawley, deputy undersecretary of the Army, and Heidi Shyu, acting assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, discuss the Army\'s new acquisition in a press conference.

    July 26, 2011
  • New environmental standards for IT products from GSA may end up hurting specialty buyers, according to Larry Allen, founder of Allen Federal Business Partners and former president of the Coalition for Government Procurement.

    July 25, 2011
  • GSA employees will no longer be able to park for free in federal buildings around the National Capital Region.

    July 25, 2011