Contracts/Awards
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Addie Cliffe, partner at Crowell & MOring LLP joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the Multiple Award Schedule program, the MAS audit process and compliance best practices for contractors.
December 29, 2019 -
DISA, GSA and industry issues dominated the 10 most read Reporter’s Notebook stories in 2019. The common theme across many of the stories is how agencies are setting the table for bigger changes in 2020.
December 27, 2019 -
Long story short — the Air Force sought to acquire space launch services through an unusual contracting strategy of trying to award two compatible bids.
December 20, 2019 -
Aaron Heffron, president of Market Connections joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, to discuss the results from the recently released 2019 Federal Media and Marketing Study which examines the media consumption habits of federal workers.
December 20, 2019 -
C2 Technologies CEO Dolly Oberoi joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the evolution of the "small business" contracting ecosystem and why now is a great time to be a small contractor in government.
December 18, 2019 -
Congress has ordered DoD to give losing bidders detailed information about why they weren't chosen. DoD's alleged failure to do that in the JEDI case may have contributed to the protest Amazon lodged in federal court.
December 18, 2019 -
Though rare, procurement fraud is a persistent problem. Now a former Air Force procurement official has put together a book on the topic.
December 13, 2019 -
DoD will use U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Transportation Command to test its new cloud.
December 12, 2019 -
Mike Parkinson, author and principal at 24 Hour Company, joined this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss why graphics are important to proposals and how companies can use them to win more government contracts.
December 12, 2019 -
Justice Department lawyers accuse Amazon of improperly redacting a "large quantity" of information from the publicly-released version of its JEDI lawsuit
December 11, 2019 -
With some of the latest ironies, federal marketing and procurement consultant Larry Allen joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 10, 2019 -
Contractors can now determine if they qualify as a small business based on a five-year revenue calculation instead of a three-year average under a new, much-anticipated rule from the Small Business Administration.
December 10, 2019 -
Federal procurement lawyers say the first quarter of the federal fiscal year tends to be among the busiest times of the year as contractors challenge awards and solicitations that came during the previous fourth quarter.
December 09, 2019 -
A redacted version of Amazon's lawsuit, unsealed Friday, claims DoD took a series of politically-influenced steps to devalue its bid and elevate Microsoft's.
December 09, 2019 -
Stephanie Shutt, director of the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program Management Office, joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the Federal Acquisition Service's MAS consolidation initiative.
December 06, 2019