Acquisition Policy
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SBA and GSA are defending their decision to limit the period of performance under the 8(a) STARS II governmentwide acquisition contract as part of raising the ceiling by $7 billion, saying more than 500 of the 700 small businesses have graduated from the socioeconomic program.
August 24, 2020 -
DISA officials say the workscape will never look the same again now that DoD has seen what telework can do.
August 24, 2020 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Gormley Group President Bill Gormley will discuss the current state of the GSA schedules program, and the state of the federal procurement market.
August 20, 2020 -
The drones will be available for purchase through GSA in September.
August 20, 2020 -
The interim rule implementing Section 889 of the 2019 NDAA takes effect Aug. 13 requiring agencies to add a provision to all new task orders and solicitation prohibiting vendors from using certain Chinese telecommunications products.
August 13, 2020 -
Christie Canaria, the Small Business Innovation Research program director at the National Cancer Institute and a finalist for the Women in Technology leadership award, said her role in helping small business successful navigate the Small Business Innovation Research program depends bring an assortment of ideas to the table.
August 07, 2020 -
Sheppard Mullin's Jonathan Aronie, David Douglass and Charles Kreindler join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss government oversight in the age of Covid-19 and what it means for contractors.
August 05, 2020 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, Ray Bjorklund of Birchgrove Consulting joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the steps contractors can take to make sure they are targeting the right federal agencies for their products and services.
August 05, 2020 -
Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), along with Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), asked Senate leadership to include a provision in the next stimulus bill to extend Section 3610 provisions that provide paid leave, including sick leave, to employees and subcontractors until Dec. 31, 2021.
August 04, 2020 -
Lee Frederiksen of Hinge Marketing joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on brand differentiation, content creation, social selling, and how to leverage visible experts to help grow your business.
August 03, 2020 -
Michael Wooten, the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said under the frictionless acquisition cross-agency priority goal under the President’s Management Agenda agencies have a series of goals and milestones over the next 18 months.
July 28, 2020 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, Bloomberg Government's Daniel Snyder joins host Mark Amtower to talk about STARS III, CIO-SP4, Alliant 2 and other large contracts that are emerging by the end of this fiscal year and early FY 2021.
July 27, 2020 -
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition Shawn Barnes said he wants to get to the point where Space Force has a “planning force” that drives the dollars so that the “program force” can be more functional.
July 21, 2020 -
Bloomberg Government's Cameron Leuthy and Brian Friel with BD Squared, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss contracting opportunities in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020.
July 20, 2020 -
FAR Council took too long to get out new rules on acquisition of Chinese telecommunication products - one of the most critical rules in years.
July 20, 2020