Contracts/Awards
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The Army will launch an initial deployment of its contract writing system in February with expanded roll outs scheduled for June. The Navy, meanwhile, will test its electronic procurement system this summer and plans to increase the number of sites in late 2020.
February 03, 2020 -
U.S. Transportation Command said the restructuring it will achieve under the contract is the only way to create "meaningful accountability" in the military's system for moving household goods.
January 31, 2020 -
GovCon small business adviser and author Judy Bradt joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the steps you can take to grow your business and win more government contracts in 2020.
January 29, 2020 -
The General Services Administration’s senior procurement executive Jeff Koses sent to industry for comments a draft acquisition letter detailing how buying consumption based cloud services could work.
January 27, 2020 -
Amazon signaled its intent to stop Microsoft and DoD from getting to work on JEDI, but its arguments for why the work should be blocked were filed under seal.
January 23, 2020 -
Pitch days are growing in popularity. They often go with the use of non-traditional acquisition techniques.
January 21, 2020 -
DISA is moving toward iterative or agile approaches to acquisition and projects in order to avoid planning and implementation mistakes of the past.
January 20, 2020 -
Here are six of the biggest contracts of the coming year, according to a Jan. 15 Bloomberg Government webinar, as well as a few notable opportunities for small businesses as well.
January 16, 2020 -
Joanne Woytek, program director of NASA SEWP, joins host Mark Amtower on Amtower Off Center, to discuss the program's recent growth, and shares her vision on how to make buying from and selling through SEWP as seamless as possible for contractors.
January 15, 2020 -
Amazon has previously hinted that it might seek to stop work on JEDI before DoD issues the first task order to Microsoft in February, but has not done so until now.
January 13, 2020 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement has been a strong supporter of an unpriced schedule in the name of efficiency.
January 10, 2020 -
Given GSA Administrator Emily Murphy's goal of transparency, the Coalition for Government Procurement says it was surprised by the recent disappearance of GSA’s online staff directory from the agency’s website.
January 10, 2020 -
A DoD IG report found more in than 40% of cases it reviewed delivery companies missed dates for service members moving to new homes.
January 08, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general says the agency is not keeping a good enough eye on the companies its contracted for identity theft protection.
January 06, 2020 -
Government lawyers tell a federal appeals court that Oracle's complaints about conflicts of interest are now moot, and that DoD has plenty of ways to justify its controversial single-award decision.
January 03, 2020