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Acquisition Policy
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We get details from the Defense Intelligence Acquisition Conference from DIA\'s Mark Bogart.
March 18, 2011 -
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GSA is focused on reducing waste as much as possible, while still allowing government to be effective. Sustainability was a focus of this year\'s IRMCO event.
March 16, 2011 -
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The FAR Councils are adding a new set of controls to contracts worth more than $20 million going to vendors in the socioeconomic program. This interim rule is in reaction to problems that surfaced last year when 8(a) firms were passing most of the work under the award to large businesses. Agencies also have new requirements to determine the order of priority for small business programs, around multiple-award contracts and when to use other than firm-fixed price contracts.
March 16, 2011 -
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The FAR Councils are adding a new set of controls to contracts worth more than $20 million going to vendors in the socioeconomic program. This interim rule is in reaction to problems that surfaced last year when 8(a) firms were passing most of the work under the award to large businesses. Agencies also have new requirements to determine the order of priority for small business programs, around multiple-award contracts and when to use other than firm-fixed price contracts.
March 16, 2011 -
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Former Air Force Chief of Staff on solving the \"people\" challenges at the DoD.
March 15, 2011 -
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Elizabeth Ferrell and Jim Schweiter of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP discuss the potential ramifications of a government shutdown for federal agencies and contractors. March 15, 2011 (Encore presentation April 5, 2011)
March 15, 2011 -
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This year\'s conference theme, \"Leveraging Efficiencies for Operational Effectiveness,\" will bring together experts from government, industry, professional trade organizations, and academia to share their insights, outlooks and perspectives on the most relevant issues, opportunities and challenges we are facing today as we deliver new technologies and operational capabilities to our war fighters and our national security customers.
March 15, 2011 -
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A Congressional panel heard from deputy Pentagon service chiefs last week that when it comes to future acquisitions, DOD may have to settle for \"good enough\".
March 15, 2011 -
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GSA\'s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies provides information to the public through a variety of ways. GSA\'s Gwynne Kostin tells us about how the agency is sharing lessons learned governmentwide.
March 11, 2011 -
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The General Services Administration’s annual IRMCO conference is just around the corner and two of its key panel discussions will focus on cloud computing. IRMCO will be held March 15-16 at the Kellogg Conference Center and Hotel in Washington, D.C. Day two will open with a CIO roundtable on implementing the 25-Point IT Plan laid [...]
March 10, 2011 -
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The General Services Administration offered advice to vendors trying to sell cloud services to the government. Dave McClure, GSA’s Associate Administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, told Federal News Radio vendors are definitely the innovators in the cloud space. But, he warns, vendors need to do more than repackage “their old [...]
March 10, 2011 -
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March 15th, 2011 at 12:30 PM This century\'s \"Work\" models are based on Collaboration; but how do you define, manage, and more importantly, increase collaboration? When you think about increasing collaboration, leveraging the power of your connected teams, utilizing the collective brains of your trusted communities, and raising the quality of your collaborative decisions, you need the constant social networking with your trusted communities.
March 10, 2011 -
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The effort to understand cloud computing doesn’t stop at the IT shop in your agency. Managers all over the government are getting “cloud savvy” so they know what they need to know to acquire solutions…
March 09, 2011 -
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Stan Collender from Qorvis Communications discusses the ongoing budget negotiations and the impact on federal contractors.March 8, 2011
March 08, 2011
