Acquisition Policy
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The FBI has opened more than two dozen grand jury investigations this year alone related to federal contracting fraud.
July 02, 2021 -
An independent, cross-functional GSA team should be pulled together to look at the OASIS program, develop a business case, and analyze the best follow-on approach without reliance on or deference to what has been proposed thus far.
July 02, 2021 -
Sonny Hashmi, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said with the initial Federal Marketplace Strategy initiatives almost complete, FAS is rolling out the next projects.
July 01, 2021 -
Nick Wakeman, editor-in-chief for Washington Technology, joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss his company's list of the top 100 contractors.
July 01, 2021 -
The National Institutes of Health Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) made changes to the CIO-SP4 solicitation last week that is causing major concerns among bidders.
June 30, 2021 -
Jason Workmaster of Miller & Chevalier joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf discuss trends in oversight and key enforcement actions in the GSA schedules program.
June 28, 2021 -
Chris Golden of Horizons Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, said the CMMC approach is good in theory, but lacks anywhere near the resources it needs to get it done.
June 18, 2021 -
Contracting officers can have interchanges with bidders, but they have to be done fairly, or else the bidder is likely to protest, as the Navy found out recently.
June 17, 2021 -
The Office of Management and Budget designed category management policies to help save the federal government money in its acquisition process. The initiative’s side effects, however, have axed the number of small business vendors.
June 17, 2021 -
Members come along from time to time who do care about efficient operation of the federal bureaucracy.
June 15, 2021 -
Scott Jensen, executive director of the National Veterans Small Business Coalition joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a discussion about the NVSBC and the issues facing veteran-owned small businesses.
June 14, 2021 -
David Cole, partner with Holland & Knight’s corporate and securities group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to share his thoughts and insights on how government contractors should think about their capital structures.
June 14, 2021 -
A new draft memo, GSA says using the consumption model for cloud services would increase competition, and encourage new entrants to the schedule program.
June 14, 2021 -
Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, and Tom Sisti, executive vice president and general counsel at the Coalition for Government Procurement, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off The Shelf for a mid-year update on current programmatic, policy, and market trends in federal procurement.
June 11, 2021 -
As with many things in life, in the world of IT GWACs and governmentwide contracting vehicles, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
June 11, 2021