Contracts/Awards
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When faced with a crush of protests, other agencies have struggled to get out from underneath them to award large contract vehicles and now NITAAC is facing a similar challenge.
November 17, 2022 -
Tim Cook, executive director of the Center for Procurement Advocacy (CPA) and Tom Sisti, vice president, and general counsel of the Coalition for Government Procurement discuss key developments in acquisition policy programs.
November 14, 2022 -
Jim Ghiloni, a group manager at FedSIM, said GSA is in the initial stages of development of Research, Innovation and Outcomes (RIO) vehicle to help small businesses in the Small Business Research Innovation (SBIR) program.
November 02, 2022 -
Jason Workmaster, a member at Miller & Chevalier, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a discussion of then current legal and policy issues in government contracting.
October 31, 2022 -
The Court of Federal Claims ruled Thursday that DoD can move ahead with its Global Household Goods contract, rejecting protest lawsuits by two separate losing bidders.
October 27, 2022 -
Allen Federal Business Partners President Larry Allen joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion of how inflation, climate change and the upcoming election will affect contractors in fiscal year 2023.
October 27, 2022 -
Contractors face the prospect of higher mandatory wages and treating independent subcontractors like employees. And that's not all. The vaccine mandate might be coming back.
October 18, 2022 -
The General Services Administration says 20 CFO Act, 11 large or medium and 51 small agencies have until May 31, 2024, to complete the transition to EIS.
October 14, 2022 -
The Army's updated cloud plan adds urgency for commands to move their legacy systems to the cloud, with more cuts planned to government data centers. Hundreds of other systems deemed to have low business value will be sunset entirely.
October 12, 2022 -
Jamie Holcombe, the chief information officer for USPTO, said a new contract award will help the agency move toward a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture.
October 07, 2022 -
Stephanie Geiger, executive vice president and co-founder of Government Marketing University, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the founding of GMarkU and the upcoming GAIN conference in October.
September 29, 2022 -
Contractors have long urged agencies to expand the debriefings they give to losing bidders after making an award. In one recent case, an enhanced debriefing lead to a turnover in the award. The new award turned out to be protest proof. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked about the project, worth tens of millions of dollars, with Joe Petrillo, Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney.
September 29, 2022 -
Baker Tilly’s Jeff Clayton, Leo Alvarez, and Julia Smith host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf, for a wide-ranging discussion of compliance, procurement, and market trends impacting companies engaged in the federal marketplace.
September 28, 2022 -
Stephanie Halcrow, president of the Halcrow Group and senior fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting and Moshe Schwartz, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss their report: "The Power of Many: Leveraging Consortia to Promote Innovation, Expand the Defense Industrial Base, and Accelerate Acquisition."
September 28, 2022 -
GSA and DoD updated policies to require make it a little easier for vendors to raises prices under current contracts.
September 15, 2022