Acquisition Policy

  • Jennie Liming is one of seven winners of Federal News Radio\'s 2010 Causey Awards. Liming was nominated for creating, implementing, and managing a program to develop entry-level employees at GSA.

    May 24, 2010
  • Jim Williams received many awards and honors during his 30-plus year career in the federal government. But he says few have topped the one he won Sunday night at the 30th annual Management of Change conference.

    May 24, 2010
  • Every year, one distinguished federal IT acquisition manager receives the coveted John J. Franke award for career excellence. The award last night went to Jim Williams, who recently retired from the GSA as the Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service.

    May 24, 2010
  • This is the second attempt to award infrastructure-as-a-service contracts. GSA increase the security requirements to moderate level and requires all vendors to be certified through FedRAMP program.

    May 21, 2010
  • These posts are often difficult to write because… well, the situation appears fluid and the facts aren’t all in place yet. And given the nature of the issues, people don’t really want to talk about…

    May 21, 2010
  • Jennie Liming, with the General Services Administration\'s Federal Acquisition Service, was nominated for a Causey Award for her work creating, implementing, and managing a program to develop entry-level employees.

    May 21, 2010
  • We get a peek at current cutting-edge practices in integrated water-energy green buildings practices and the opportunities and challenges of bringing these practices to federal facilities from GSA\'s John Simpson

    May 21, 2010
  • Vendors pessimistic that agencies can transition all services to Networx by June 2011. GSA says it will decide a few months before the contract ends whether to extend the current telecommunications contract.

    May 20, 2010
  • The proliferation of multiple award contracts across the government has reached a tipping point. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is on a listening tour trying to figure out how to tame this unwieldy beast. In our special report, Contract Overload, Federal News Radio\'s Jason Miller explores all sides of this complex issue. What is the cost to industry to continually bid on these contracts? How do these costs get passed to agencies? Why do agencies believe they need their own MACs instead of using contracts provided by the General Services Administration, or other government-wide acquisition contracts? And, what, if anything, can OFPP do to reel in the explosion in redundant contracts?

    May 20, 2010
  • Federal News Radio\'s Jason Miller tells us what he discovered while reporting for his three-part series.

    May 19, 2010
  • The Federal Drive\'s Tom Temin and Amy Morris examine whether or not it should be done.

    May 19, 2010
  • An electronic contracting system that will reduce paper shuffling and allow the public to see details about what the government buys may be on the way. We get details from Roger Waldron, a former GSA exec.

    May 19, 2010
  • Congressional staff members call the current MAC environment \"chaos.\" The administration will decide in a matter of weeks whether NIH should continue to run its CIO-SP3 governmentwide contract. OFPP administrator Gordon says several broad policy decisions must be made to address the challenges around multiple award contracts.

    May 19, 2010
  • During her first interview as head of OGP, Kathleen Turco explains how she plans to serve you.

    May 18, 2010
  • Learn more about it from Vice President Susan Plonkey. May 18, 2010

    May 18, 2010