Acquisition Policy
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A new procurement notice details DHS’s plans for the third version of EAGLE announced by Soraya Correa, DHS' chief procurement officer, late last year.
March 04, 2019 -
What are the biggest issues facing set-aside companies as they move to full and open competition? Find out when Bob Lohfeld, founder and CEO of Lohfeld Consulting joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center.
March 04, 2019 -
Former Office of Management and Budget and Defense Department IT executives weighed in on why the frustrations over IT management boiled over in the Section 809 panel report.
March 01, 2019 -
Kevin DeSanto, managing partner and co-founder of KippsDesanto, joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, to discuss his company's 2019 survey of mergers and acquisitions activity in the aerospace, defense and government services sectors.
February 25, 2019 -
A low level debate is rumbling within the Defense Department and with its contractors having to do with progress and performance based payments.
February 25, 2019 -
George Mason University in Virginia officially launched the Center for Government Contracting to focus on policy, business and regulatory issues that impact the federal procurement process.
February 20, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Agriculture Department's Inspector General found the U.S. Forest Service is not quickly acting on sexual assault and harassment allegations.
February 19, 2019 -
The General Services Administration wants to help vendors improve the quality of their future bid submissions through its new initiative, called INFORM.
February 18, 2019 -
Earlier this month the Defense Department under Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy put out an 18-page cloud strategy that seemed to be little more than reaffirming what the department is already doing.
February 18, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is asking the Defense Department which military projects will lose funding due to Donald Trump diverting $3.5 billion from military construction accounts to build a wall on the southern border.
February 18, 2019 -
The White House said President Trump intends to nominate Michael Wooten, the senior advisor for acquisitions at the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office, to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
February 13, 2019 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement and the Naval Postgraduate School found agencies were getting better deals through GSA Advantage than through pilots using Amazon.
February 11, 2019 -
GSA launched its schedules transparency initiative four months ago and NASA awards a new $2.9 billion contract to provide its employees new end user services.
February 11, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management answered some lingering questions that popped up due to the recent partial government shutdown.
February 11, 2019 -
Does the new rule satisfy contractors who felt beset by DoD buyers' reliance on LPTA? David Berteau gave his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
February 11, 2019