Contracts/Awards
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Mark Krzysko, president of the Association for Federal Information Resources Management, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, to discuss what his organization is doing for the GovCon community.
March 22, 2023 -
A dozen unsuccessful bidders protested the award of CATTS IT services contract, claiming Commerce didn’t evaluate their proposals properly.
March 21, 2023 -
David Shea, director of the Office of Charge Card Management at the General Services Administration joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the federal SmartPay program.
March 15, 2023 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to disucss how inflation is impacting contractors.
March 07, 2023 -
Paul Courtney, the chief procurement officer at the Homeland Security Department, said he didn’t consider opening up the multiple-award IT products and software contract to a larger number of awardees.
February 27, 2023 -
Tim Cook, executive director of the Center for Procurement Advocacy, and Tom Sisti, executive vice president and general counsel of the Coalition for Government Procurement, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the key trends and takeaways from the FY23 National Defense Authorization Act.
February 22, 2023 -
The Biden administration developed a supplier base dashboard and a procurement equity tool to help agencies identify potential new small businesses to contract with as part of its equity in procurement initiative.
February 17, 2023 -
National Industries for the Blind and two other groups are asking a federal court to make GSA rescind its commercial platform solicitation and comply with the JWOD Act law.
February 14, 2023 -
Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement executive, issued a new memo after a request the Polaris program office to bring the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) program to governmentwide acquisition contracts.
February 09, 2023 -
There is a maxim of business that an organization cannot manage what it does not measure. At a basic level, this maxim recognizes the importance of data, like information surrounding performance, production activities, and distribution, to the success of a business. Given that competitive markets are dynamic, accessing such data and understanding it allows businesses to respond to market changes by adjusting various inputs to meet them.
January 27, 2023 -
A dispute between the Defense Department and old-line contractor Raytheon shows how tricky the rules are for cost accounting. In one recent case, Raytheon prevailed at the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
January 25, 2023 -
From new and burdensome rules, to delays in governmentwide vehicles, to Congressional new blood, federal contractors face a daunting year.
January 18, 2023 -
Margaret Boatner, the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform, said the service will hire as many as 10 experts to help acquisition offices and vendors improve their management of intellectual property.
January 17, 2023 -
The Army is planning a significant multiple-award ID/IQ to tie the communication advancements it's achieved at the tactical edge into a more manageable structuring of its tools and the data they produce.
January 17, 2023 -
Percipient.AI alleges NGA and prime contractor CACI are ignoring a law requiring agencies to buy commercially available products.
January 13, 2023