Acquisition Policy
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The Navy wants to leverage some of the work its major contractors have already done on digital engineering, but legal issues and intellectual property rights pose challenges.
May 13, 2021 -
Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement executive, wrote in a blog post that the Transactional Data Reporting pilot proved it’s a worthy replacement for the dreaded Price Reduction Clause.
May 10, 2021 -
Following an apparently successful pilot project, DoD plans to start negotiations with SAP Concur on the price tag to fully replace its existing system.
May 10, 2021 -
Even for the government, the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a complicated apparatus.
May 07, 2021 -
In Part 3 of his series, Roger Waldron examines the unprecedented success of OASIS SB and OASIS Unrestricted in delivering best value mission support to customer agencies for complex, professional services, especially DoD.
May 07, 2021 -
For some contractors a $15-an-hour minimum wage is a moot issue. For others, it would have a lot of implications for profits and competitiveness.
May 04, 2021 -
A bill that would remove sexual assault investigations from the military chain of command now has 46 Senate co-sponsors, including 10 Republicans.
May 03, 2021 -
Alan Thomas, chief operating officer at IntelliBridge, joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the state of interagency contracting, with a focus on the Federal Acquisition Service’s portfolio of governmentwide contract vehicles.
April 29, 2021 -
Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Smith Pachter McWhorter joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the details.
April 28, 2021 -
Given GSA’s discretion on this subject, and in the face of the proposed BIC MAC follow-on to OASIS, it is time for GSA to modify the MAS program to add cost reimbursement capability.
April 23, 2021 -
Contractors supporting both the troops and a number of services in Afghanistan are trying to get answers about what's ahead now that they will soon return to the U.S.
April 20, 2021 -
GAO told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations that CIO authorities improved across five agencies over the course of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard.
April 20, 2021 -
Now that the federal customers who rely on the system see speed as the new normal, they won’t be satisfied with a return to the status quo ante.
April 20, 2021 -
David Black and Ken Dodds joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the latest policy, program and legal developments impacting small businesses in the federal market.
April 13, 2021 -
Two agencies are attempting to improve the Contractor Performance Assessment Retrieval System (CPARS) process, which many say isn’t working as intended.
April 12, 2021