Contracts/Awards

How to become a player in the Navy RDT&E world

Kevin Cooley, CEO of Resource Management Concepts, joined host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to explain how his company became a player…

Amtower Off-Center

Go small or go home: Understanding affiliation rules for set-aside contracts

Commentary

Patricia Lake

Procurement: A look back and a look ahead

Off the Shelf

Climate change and sustainable procurement

Off the Shelf

CBP’s late-stage solicitation change sparks bid protest

Contracting

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo the General Services Administration building is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. An agency little known outside Washington, the General Services Administration, has held off on recognizing President-elect Joe Biden as the president-elect, denying him access to the money, offices and machinery routinely afforded to the incoming team. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Advice for contractors who want to gain a little more control over their fates

Contracting

GovCon marketing tactics in 2022

Amtower Off-Center

CMMC, cybersecurity, acquisition initiatives made the federal IT community take notice

Reporter's Notebook

Contractors conclude a difficult year of funding uncertainty and a slew of executive orders

Contracting

Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division used the latest prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during a training exercise in October at Fort Pickett, Va. The event was part of a larger Soldier Touch Point, the third major milestone in the development and testing of the IVAS, which will undergo one more STP in the spring before initial fielding next year. (U.S. Army Photo by Bridgett Siter)

Army’s IVAS program under scrutiny from Congress, lawmakers withhold funds

Army

Changes to make federal procurement more equitable missing key ingredients

Reporter's Notebook

Vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine ready to be administered, at Swaminarayan School vaccination centre, in London, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Britain says it will offer all adults a booster dose of vaccine within two months to bolster the nation's immunity as the new omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads. New measures to combat variant came into force in England on Tuesday, with face coverings again compulsory in shops and on public transport. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

OMB offers new guidance on federal contractor vaccine mandate, as compliance ticks up for feds

The Biden administration said it won’t enforce the provisions of the president’s federal contractor vaccine mandate while a nationwide preliminary injunction…

Contracting

GAO sustains first of 23 protests of CIO-SP4 solicitation

Computer World Services Corp. prevailed in its protest of NITAAC’s CIO-SP4 solicitation after arguing that certain past performance requirements were…

Reporter's Notebook

Task order protests made up larger percentage of all GAO complaints in 2020

Reporter's Notebook

The Government Accountability Office’s annual report to Congress showed vendors filed less than 1,900 protests in fiscal 2020.