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Multiple-award contracts don't mean everyone who bids get a slot. A new federal circuit court ruling shows that losing companies can protest those who did get an award and maybe knock them off.
The $17.9 billion moving contract's latest delays had been caused by IT integration challenges, but those problems have apparently been solved.
A new rule is expected any time now that will overhaul how the Defense Department buys from the Ability One program. That is the vehicle for non-profit employers of people with disabilities to deliver goods and services to the government. Contractors under the Ability One program worry the new rule will hinder a chief program goal of helping those very employees.
Brian Goodger, the NITAAC director, said the number of potential awardees under the CIO-SP4 contract increased by more than 30 vendors.
On January 25, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo to Chief Acquisition Officers and Senior Procurement Executives
MaryKathryn Robinson, the director for contract policy in the Office of Defense Pricing and Contracting, said in 2022 92% of the OTAs were awarded to those OTA contractors or performers that had a non-traditional defense contractor performer.
As another continuing resolution looms, agencies are in limbo as they consider starting new projects. Then you have some unfortunate protest rulings. No wonder federal contractors are nervous about calendar-year 2024. For one take on the the situation, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen.
Reps. Roger Williams (R-Texas) and Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.), chairman and a member of the Small Business Committee, wrote to NASA seeking a briefing on its decision to use a specific NAICS code for its SEWP VI GWAC.
ePS- National Diversity Veteran Small Business filed a protest in December after being disqualified from the competition for the next generation Commercial Platforms Initiative program.
Tom Howder, the soon-to-be acting commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said expanding the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) program is one of several new priorities for fiscal 2024.
The Government Accountability Office recently upheld the protest of a contract award from the Defense Intelligence Agency. DIA was hiring a small business to conduct counterintelligence training. It used a slightly unconventional approach to evaluating bidders.
U.S. Transportation Command says it won’t know how soon the department will be able to finally transition to its long-delayed household goods moving contract until a new round of IT integration tests is finished.
For smaller suppliers, selling to DoD still isn't a walk in the park – but things are getting a little simpler. Last month, the department enacted a long-awaited rule change that prohibits prime contractors from flowing unnecessary contract clauses down to their subcontractors. It is all a part of more changes that are meant to simplify commercial buying in DoD that are still in the rulemaking pipeline. Dan Ramish is counsel at the law firm Haynes & Boone. He talked with Federal News Network’s Deputy Editor Jared Serbu about what the changes mean.
David Drabkin, a fellow at the Stevens Institute of Technology Acquisition Innovation Research Center, and Chris Yukins, a professor at the George Washington University law school and a fellow with Acquisition Innovation Research Center, led a review of DoD’s protest data, specifically focused on agency-level complaints.