Contracts/Awards
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The federal fourth quarter spending spree is in full swing with agencies expected to spend more money during the last three months of 2020 than they have spent in the previous five years during the final quarter of the fiscal year.
July 14, 2020 -
The General Services Administration says it’s creating more visibility into the transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program through meetings with deputy secretaries, letters to agency CIOs and agency transition managers and briefings with smaller agencies.
July 13, 2020 -
An IG inspection found half a billion dollars in unfunded maintenance items at DoD health care facilities, including at least seven that could cause death or serious injuries.
July 13, 2020 -
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council will require all contracts released or awarded after Aug. 13 to include a clause prohibiting agencies to award a contract to a company if they use telecommunications products or services from Huawei, ZTE or other prohibit products from Chinese companies.
July 10, 2020 -
Irv Dennis, the CFO for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said his office already has kicked off initiatives to implement robotics process automation and data analytics ahead incoming help from the IT Modernization Centers of Excellence program.
July 09, 2020 -
After five years of trying to establish a deal, agency decides it's better to start over.
July 08, 2020 -
The General Services Administration is taking corrective action under its $5.5 billion 2GIT contract by changing the self-scoring evaluation approach.
July 08, 2020 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, Doug Mashkuri, VP and general manager of GovLoop, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss what contractors should consider when selecting a virtual meeting platform.
July 03, 2020 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Jason Workmaster, a member at Miller & Chevalier, joins host Roger Waldron talk about section 889, the so-called Huawei provision.
June 30, 2020 -
U.S. Transportation Command has reaffirmed its original award decision in the $7.2 billion Global Household Goods contract after saying it would take corrective action.
June 29, 2020 -
The General Services Administration awarded proof-of-concepts to Amazon Business, Overstock.com and Fischer Scientific on Friday to provide agencies access to their commercial e-commerce platforms for purchases below the micro-purchase threshold of $10,000.
June 29, 2020 -
The General Services Administration said in April the 8(a) STARS II govermentwide acquisition contract for IT services hit its contract ceiling, but now it has increased the vehicle’s maximum obligations to $22 billion.
June 24, 2020 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf, to discuss the recent procedural delays in the awarding of major IDIQ contracts.
June 23, 2020 -
Although the Defense contracting community has never dealt with a situation quite like the current pandemic, the Pentagon's IG says there are enough lessons from past emergencies to help minimize waste, fraud and abuse.
June 18, 2020 -
ACT-IAC released a new case study highlighting best practices and lessons learned for agencies as they implement the technologies under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract.
June 16, 2020