Contracts/Awards
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After almost five years, the Office of Management and Budget is close to issuing new guidance for how agencies should implement the 21st Century IDEA Act, while the transition to EIS will take longer for eight agencies.
August 24, 2023 -
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Insformation Solutions at Deltek, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, to discuss the latest Clarity Study on trends and contractors perspectives of the government market.
August 14, 2023 -
Currently, paradoxes in the MAS contract negotiation process and procedures are creating significant, contradictory and unnecessary hurdles for contracting officers seeking to negotiate “fair and reasonable” pricing. In turn, contractors, including small business contractors, are seeing impacts regarding their access to the federal market and opportunities to compete for customer agency requirements.
August 14, 2023 -
New data from GAO found 27 agencies spent more than $40 million through the Commercial Platforms, with 96% going to one of the three providers.
August 09, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast, five years since issuing the notice of proposed rulemaking, agencies can finally conduct 360 degree reviews with their contractors.
August 09, 2023 -
Protests of agency solicitations or contract awards draw protests about two thousand times every year. It's no fun for either side. But there are things the government can do in crafting an acquisition to lower the chances of a protest.
August 07, 2023 -
A recent survey from the Professional Services Council highlights optimism in the federal acquisition workforce, particularly around communications with industry and the use of longer-term multi-agency contracts.
July 28, 2023 -
Peter Hutt, partner at Covington & Burling LLP, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for an in-depth discussion of the False Claims Act, including the basics of the law and its impact in the government contracts market.
July 18, 2023 -
A coalition of medium-sized companies offers several recommendations to the Alliant 3 acquisition strategy, including expanding the number of awardees and changing the past performance requirements.
July 13, 2023 -
NITAAC says it would extend the CIO-SP3 governmentwide acquisition contract another six months, through April 2024 after it decided to take corrective action on the follow-on contract.
July 11, 2023 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of the hottest topics in procurement.
July 05, 2023 -
Jason Miller, executive editor of Federal News Network, joins Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion of the key procurement trends over the first half of 2023.
July 05, 2023 -
Raj Sharma, the founder and CEO of the Public Spend Forum, said agencies are more willing to provide Phase 2 SBIR funding to promising technologies over the last four years.
July 05, 2023 -
Bloomberg Government estimates agencies to have more than $200 billion to spend on acquisition over the final three months of fiscal 2023.
July 04, 2023 -
NITAAC’s CIO-SP4 governmentwide acquisition contract may have to go back to Phase 1 of the evaluations after GAO agreed with 98 small firms’ complaints that the agency misevaluated proposals.
June 29, 2023