Acquisition Policy
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OMB released much-anticipated guidance giving agencies important direction for how they should implement the provision in the stimulus bill that lets agencies pay contractors to keep them in a state of ready.
April 21, 2020 -
Joanne Woytek, the NASA SEWP program director, said the governmentwide acquisition contract grew 25% in March as compared to the previous month and saw 40% more orders going through the system.
April 17, 2020 -
CenturyLink, Verizon and Granite Telecommunications submitted protests to the Government Accountability Office over task orders under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program.
April 16, 2020 -
Federal contractors, especially small businesses, must apply for assistance under the CARES Act stimulus bill, at a time when demand for their services is higher than ever.
April 14, 2020 -
The Defense Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released memos late last week outlining how contractor officers can implement a provision of the stimulus spending bill to pay contractors if they can’t work because of the coronavirus pandemic.
April 14, 2020 -
The IT Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC) sent a memo to House and Senate lawmakers explaining why the Defense Department should drop its JEDI plan and follow the path of the CIA.
April 13, 2020 -
The Pentagon plans to announce new contracts under the Defense Production Act to increase the domestic supply of critical N95 respirators over the next three months.
April 13, 2020 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss how key provisions in the Fiscal Year 2020 NDAA will impact procurement and operations at the Defense Department.
April 12, 2020 -
Upon a return to more normal operations, GSA can address gaps in the solicitation that undermine the integrity of the federal market.
April 10, 2020 -
Government contractors are changing the way they are communicating with their clients and seeking more details for how to continue to meet mission needs.
April 07, 2020 -
This week on Off the Shelf, the Booz Allen Hamilton Immersive Technologies team joins host Roger Waldron to explain how technological advances in virtual and augmented reality are changing the way the Department of Defense trains, plans and executes.
April 06, 2020 -
Agencies expected to award 58 task orders under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract by March 31, but instead awarded 10, putting the $50 billion program on a path similar to the last telecommunications transition debacle.
April 06, 2020 -
The House Armed Services Committee's ranking member says previous reform efforts have told DoD to pay more attention to sustainment costs, but only for individual weapons systems.
April 03, 2020 -
Maryland is among the states with the highest concentration of federal employees, agencies and contractors, making drafting of the emergency stimulus bill signed last Friday by President Donald Trump especially important.
April 02, 2020 -
Five of the nine EIS vendors raised concerns about the delays in releasing task orders under EIS, about what the solicitations are asking for and the quality of the requirements detailed in the documents saying the transition is taking on too much of a Networx-like flavor.
March 30, 2020