Acquisition Policy
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A coalition of medium-sized companies offers several recommendations to the Alliant 3 acquisition strategy, including expanding the number of awardees and changing the past performance requirements.
July 13, 2023 -
NITAAC says it would extend the CIO-SP3 governmentwide acquisition contract another six months, through April 2024 after it decided to take corrective action on the follow-on contract.
July 11, 2023 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of the hottest topics in procurement.
July 05, 2023 -
Jason Miller, executive editor of Federal News Network, joins Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion of the key procurement trends over the first half of 2023.
July 05, 2023 -
Raj Sharma, the founder and CEO of the Public Spend Forum, said agencies are more willing to provide Phase 2 SBIR funding to promising technologies over the last four years.
July 05, 2023 -
Bloomberg Government estimates agencies to have more than $200 billion to spend on acquisition over the final three months of fiscal 2023.
July 04, 2023 -
Emily Murphy, the former administrator of the General Services Administration and now a senior fellow with the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, makes the case for why cost and pricing data at the main contract level is useless and burdensome.
July 03, 2023 -
Contractors and investor offer suggestions for how to improve DoD acquisition but getting ideas implemented may not be easy.
June 30, 2023 -
As a best practice, commercial firms leverage their buying power when acquiring supplies and services to support business operations.
June 30, 2023 -
Because cyber threats ceaselessly change, so do the protective measures agencies need to take. Cybersecurity guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) never stay static either.
June 12, 2023 -
Kurt DelBene, VA’s chief information officer and assistant secretary in the Office of Information and Technology, said he will hold contractors more accountable through smaller tasks and specific metrics of success.
June 09, 2023 -
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to give an update on GSA’s key acquisition policy priorities,
June 08, 2023 -
Mark Borkowski (left), the chief acquisition officer and assistant commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection directorate in the Homeland Security Department, will leaver federal service on June 30.
June 07, 2023 -
Scott Simpson, the digital transformation lead in the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer at DHS, said about 200 contracting officers are testing three AI capabilities to see how they more easily can help them find possible contractors to bid on solicitations.
June 06, 2023 -
DHS is reshaping its approach to technology by focusing on more agile, iterative projects, and reducing its reliance on big system integrators.
May 31, 2023