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As agencies enter the final month of the fiscal year, spending is expected to increase significantly, especially through multiple award contracts.
August 31, 2015 -
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Procurement protests get a bad rep for taking long to sort out minor details. GAO's Ralph White says that's far from true. He debunks some common procurement myths.
August 28, 2015 -
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The Department of Homeland Security is moving forward with the White House's "kill the password" initiative with an award for cell phone software that authenticates users without the use of passwords and pins.
August 28, 2015 -
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Contractors have a busy rest of the summer. Requests for proposals now or about to be on the street will amount to $92 billion worth of future opportunities. That's according to analysis by Bloomberg Government. More than half of that will come from the General Services Administration's forthcoming Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions multiple award program. Brian Friel is a government contracts analyst at Bloomberg. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to preview these upcoming multiple award contracts.
August 28, 2015 -
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Veteran owned small businesses might have too many options to help them earn federal contracting opportunities. And the differences between the Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern and Vets First program are confusing. Marci Love Thomas is senior counsel at the General Counsel's government contracts practice and former senior attorney adviser at the Small Business Administration. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the differences between the two programs.
August 27, 2015 -
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Perception isn't reality for bid protests in the federal government. Some perceptions — like there are more protests than ever — are more chatter than they are real. Ralph White is managing associate general counsel for procurement law at the Government Accountability Office. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose the idea that there are more protests than ever isn't supported by the numbers.
August 27, 2015 -
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Shana Simmons, a GEOINT Integration Capabilities Officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said six apps are going through a commercial-like process to gain approval and become available to buy through NGA’s app store.
August 27, 2015 -
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Last month, an appeals court unanimously ruled that an employee can have more than one employer for the purposes of liability. The court said that when an employee is hired by one company but works for another, the companies can be considered joint employers, and can both be sued for discrimination under a provision of the Civil Rights Act. This could have big implications for federal contractors and their subs. Terry O'Conner is the director of government contracts at the law firm Berenzweig Leonard. In this week's Legal Loop, he joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the case and its implications.
August 27, 2015 -
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The Department of Defense has been working on guidelines to help its contracting officers decide whether potential noncompetitive contracts are worth their advertised prices. The new guidelines address different ways agencies can tackle situations where they don't have information available to them.
August 26, 2015 -
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The Army awarded the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle to Oshkosh. The contract could be worth as much as 30 billion dollars. The award is a blow to Lockheed Martin and AM General, the other bidders on the contract. James Tinsley is managing director at Avascent. He's been following the JLTV competition since the beginning and he tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the award to Oshkosh isn't a huge surprise.
August 26, 2015 -
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The Secretary of the Air Force and its Chief of Staff say a full year continuing resolution would have a significant impact on the service, particularly by slowing down or halting as many as 50 acquisition programs.
August 26, 2015 -
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Geoff Livingston, president of Tenacity5 Media will discuss the state of social media with host Mark Amtower. August 24, 2015
August 24, 2015 -
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The time to move from contract award to full implementation under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program will force agencies to decide whether to spend money on new tools or wait for those coming from DHS.
August 24, 2015 -
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A proposed rule to promote small business subcontracting should be revised to ease the compliance burden on prime contractors. That's the opinion expressed in a letter the American Bar Association's Section of Public Contract Law has sent to the General Services Administration. They claim the rule should be rewritten to allow primes to inquire about a small business's size directly from subcontractors, instead of an unreliable government database. Keir Bancroft is a partner in the government contracts practice at Venable. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the proposed rule and the ABA's objections to it.
August 21, 2015
