Acquisition Policy
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This week the General Services Administration's MAS Program Management Office provided an update about GSA’s plans to merge the program’s 24 schedules into a single one.
March 22, 2019 -
Members of the Defense Innovation Board described their initial set of recommendations to fix DoD software acquisition. The Pentagon said it plans to start implementing them right away.
March 22, 2019 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss more about contracting oversight.
March 18, 2019 -
Erik Bruice, vice president of Health Solutions at Northrop Grumman, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf, to discuss how the military health market is changing and how his company is using technology to help address military health.
March 15, 2019 -
Several federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the armed services, have rediscovered an old but potent way of getting rapid acquisitions done. Alex Rossino at Deltek discussed the implications.
March 15, 2019 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement said the Section 809 Panel's approach to the concept of “readily available” products and services to reform the federal acquisition process raises concerns for accountability and transparency.
March 15, 2019 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency has been pushing its mission partners toward “app rationalization,” urging them to figure out what they need to operate in the cloud.
March 15, 2019 -
An audit of a sample of DoD's contracts with Transdigm found half the company's earnings were "excess" profit, but the inspector general said the findings highlight a need for broad policy changes.
March 15, 2019 -
Lee Frederiksen, managing partner of Hinge Marketing, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, to talk about his company's recently released 2019 High Growth Study which examines why some federal contractors are doing better than their slower-growing peers.
March 13, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers want to hear from the Indian Health Service's acting director about what he's done to improve on an apparent failure of the agency to provide quality health care.
March 08, 2019 -
Tom Sisti, vice president and chief legislative counsel for SAP, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the state of commercial item contracting and the e-commerce implementation of Section 846 of the FY18 National Defense Authorization Act.
March 07, 2019 -
The Air Force is expanding its industrial base and it's thinking outside the box to do it.
March 07, 2019 -
Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the top procurement issues in 2019 including the challenges posed by GSA's schedules modernization initiative.
March 07, 2019 -
What are the challenges facing subject matter experts in the government market? Find out when Lee Frederiksen, managing partner of Hinge Marketing, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center.
March 07, 2019 -
Starting this week, the Air Force says it wants to introduce new participants into its supplier base where it will sign one-page contracts with small businesses.
March 05, 2019