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Contractors will have to give employees paid sick leave under an executive order the New York Times reports President Barack Obama will sign. Josh Alloy is counsel for Arnold and Porter's labor and employment group. He writes an advisory about what companies will have to do and what they should be planning to do. Alloy tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the scope of the executive order is pretty comprehensive.
August 13, 2015 -
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A measure of the health and strength of the government contracting industry is available through the GovCon Index. Executive Mosaic calculates it every day the stock market is open. Ross Wilkers is the newsroom editor of Executive Mosaic. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose how you can use it to gauge the gov con space.
August 13, 2015 -
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Robert Coen, director of the NIH GWAC management office NITTAAC, discusses the just awarded CIO-CS and other GWACs. August 10, 2015
August 10, 2015 -
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GSA and the Naval Sea Systems Command released a blanket purchase agreement and the first task order under that contract vehicle to provide a host of credit monitoring and identity protection services for those affected by the OPM data breach. The number of potential victims increased to 28 million.
August 05, 2015 -
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The Homeland Security Department is committing $250 million in spending to the professional services governmentwide acquisition contract known as OASIS. DHS signed a memorandum of understanding with GSA detailing its commitment. Todd Richards is the OASIS contract program manager at the General Services Administration. Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller talked to Richards at the National Contract Management Association’s World Congress in Dallas and has more details about the MOU with DHS.
July 30, 2015 -
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Leidos wins a $4.3 billion contract for a new electronic health record from the Pentagon. The acquisition process started two years ago after three draft RFPs, and three potential bidders dropped out or were eliminated. Dave Wennergren is vice president of technology at the Professional Services Council and former assistant deputy chief management officer at the Defense Department. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that this project is a very big deal.
July 30, 2015 -
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The General Services Administration signed its third MOU with a large federal organization to use the professional services governmentwide acquisition contract known as OASIS. In return for its pledge to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year, DHS receives a lower fee.
July 30, 2015 -
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The Pentagon capped off a more than two-year acquisition process for a new electronic health record today, awarding the contract to a consortium of companies led by Leidos. The new system will eventually roll out to more than a thousand sites around the world. It will replace DoD’s aging records system with a mostly-commercial IT product. More from Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter Jared Serbu.
July 29, 2015 -
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The Pentagon capped off a more than two-year acquisition process for a new electronic health record Wednesday afternoon, awarding a $4.3 billion contract to a consortium of companies led by Leidos.
July 29, 2015 -
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Chris Hamm, GSA's director of FedSIM, plans to take a different approach to using FAR Part 16.
July 29, 2015 -
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received $1 billion in emergency funding last year to help deal with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, putting the contracting staff under pressure.
July 29, 2015 -
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The Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command will be in charge of hiring a contractor to provide identity-protection services to victims of the breach on the Office of Personnel Management's background-investigation database. NAVSEA will issue an RFQ early next week. GSA was supposed to send it out this week.
July 28, 2015 -
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A new memo from David Mader, the OMB controller and acting deputy director for management, requires agencies to move to either the Treasury Department’s Internet Payment Platform or another approved shared service provider. OMB said agencies process only about 40 percent of all procurement invoices electronically today.
July 28, 2015 -
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Members of GSA's Alliant team join host Mark Amtower to discuss the program, Alliant 2, GSA Schedule 70 and more. July 27, 2015
July 27, 2015
