Collaboration is difficult because, in most cases, it involves changing the way we have done business. That is particularly true in government, which can often be stymied by the ‘that’s not the way we do…
Tomorrow is a red-letter day for federal buildings. The General Services Administration is singling out 18 for top honors in its Design Awards ceremony. Is your building on the list? Thomas Grooms, Director of the…
Acting Administrator Paul Prouty sent out a memo last week to GSA offices announcing that he is changing titles for assistant regional administrators and deputy assistant regional administrators. Here is the memo sent out March…
You probably still associate David Winstead with the GSA, where he was commissioner of public buildings. Well, he’s out of government now and has joined the law firm, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. He’s…
There are a lot of opinions on how the defense procurement process could be reformed. The House Armed Services Committee has formed a bi-partisan panel to deal with the issue, and there is a bill…
Yes, we said Tuesday that the announcement that could — emphasizing that we did say could — come on Wednesday… and no, it didn’t happen… clearly. They must have been too busy talking government contracting?…
Complaint filed accusing EMC Corp. of failing to disclose its commercial pricing practices during negotiation of its GSA contracts and of providing improper payments
GSA looking at Web 2.0, green IT to help agencies, improve services
CHEERS To Nancy Potter, former GSA employee with 62 years of government service, who died this past week. In an age where employees jump from job to job, company to company, Nancy Potter was the…
In a notice on FedBizOpps.gov, GSA says as of now the contract will include two levels with four functional areas in each level.
Defrauding the federal government is not enough to stop the award of future contracts.
The fiscal 2010 budget summary details almost four pages on how the Obama administration is going to manage the federal government. While many of the specifics were not laid out, there is a clear path…
How do you get young people involved in the federal government? Let them observe what you do on a daily basis. The General Services Administration recently hosted its annual Information Technology Job Shadow Day in…
President Obama is in Denver today to sign The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, known to most of us as the stimulus bill. That bill includes money for alternative energy. And right there in Denver,…